Dr. Raja Appuswamy

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Data Science Department, EURECOM. February, 2018 - now.
• Visiting Professor, EPFL, Switzerland. January 2018 - January 2019.
• Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL, Switzerland. October 2014 - December 2017
• Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. December 2013 - June 2014
• Software Development Engineer, Microsoft, Seattle, USA. January 2008 - December 2008

Education

• PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, VU University, Amsterdam. June 2014.
• M.S in Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville. December 2007
• M.S in Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville. December 2007

Awards and Honors

• Invited contributor to Springer Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies (2018) on "Cheap data analytics on cold storage"
• Research excellence award from EPFL IC department (2017) for "Outstanding contributions to data systems research"
• Best paper award at EUSIPCO (2019) for "A Biologically constrained encoding solution for long-term storage of images onto synthetic DNA"
• Best paper award at CORESA (2018) for "DNA coding for image storage using image compression techniques"
• Best paper award at LADC (2013) for "Battling Bad Bits with Checksums in the Loris Page Cache"
• Best paper award at ASCI (2010) for "Loris - A redundant array of independent physical layers"
• Best paper award at LADC (2009) for "Dealing with Driver Failures in the Storage Stack"