Arnab Bhattacharya is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, to which he is affiliated since December 2007. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA in 2007. His current research interests include databases, data mining, natural language processing, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence. Arnab holds multiple patents in databases and has several publications in reputed journals and conferences.