Email: khatiwada.a@northeastern.edu
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I am Aamod Khatiwada, a PhD Candidate (Computer Science, Databases) at Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. I am originally from Jhorahat, a town in the southeastern part of Nepal. My primary research focus is to develop novel techniques and algorithms that find and integrate open data tables in a principled way.
During free times, I enjoy watching cricket and soccer, writing poems, stories, and news articles.
2024 March 18 | I gave a Guest Lecture at Boston University, USA on "Table Discovery and Integration in Data Lakes". Slides |
2023 December 7 | I passed my PhD Thesis Proposal Examination. Thanks to my advisor, PhD Thesis Committee Members and my collaborators. |
2023 October 13 | I accepted an internship offer from Microsoft for summer 2024. I will be interning at Redmond, Washington as PhD Data Scientist. |
2023 August 29 | I presented ALITE at VLDB 2023. Professor Renee Miller gave a keynote at TaDA Workshop@VLDB 2023 on "From Discovery to Integration of Data Lake Tables". The keynote covered ALITE and DIALITE papers. |
2023 June 20 | I, along with Grace presented SANTOS, and with Roee, demonstrated DIALITE at SIGMOD 2023. I also volunteered for the conference. |
2023 May 22 | I returned to IBM Research at Yorktown Heights as an AI Research Scientist for my summer internship. |
2023 Apr 29 | I received my Master's degree in Computer Science from Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University. |
2023 Apr 24 | I received SIGMOD student Travel Award to attend SIGMOD Conference 2023. Thanks to the conference organization committee. |
2023 Mar 10 | Together with Grace, I gave a talk on "Table Discovery and Integration in Data Lakes: Challenges and Solutions" at Northeast Database Day, 2023. We also presented posters on SANTOS, STARMIE and ALITE. |
2023 Feb 26 | My demo entitled "Dialite: Discover, Align and Integrate Open Data Tables", co-authored with Roee and Renee has has been accepted for presentation at SIGMOD 2023. |
2022 Dec 29 | I visited Institute of Engineering, Thapathali Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal as a guest speaker and gave a talk on "Academic Research and Research Article Writing." |
2022 Nov 15 | My paper entitled "Integrating Data Lake Tables" has been accepted for presentation at PVLDB 2023. |
2022 Nov 8 | I achieved my PhD candidacy. Special thanks to my advisor, co-authors and colleagues. |
2022 Oct 24 | I presented my paper entitled "Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Causal Relation Prediction" at DL4KG@ISWC 2022. Oktie and Sola presented two other papers that I co-authored in the conference. |
2022 Sept 5 | This Fall, Professor Renee J. Miller is offering CS7290: Special Topics in Data Science course. I will be helping her as a Teaching Assistant for the class. |
2022 Aug 26 | I finished my summer internship at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY. I will return back to IBM next summer (summer 2023) as an AI Research Scientist intern. |
2022 Aug 16 | SANTOS got accepted for SIGMOD 2023. |
I am blessed to have University Distinguished Professor Renee J. Miller as my Phd supervisor. I am equally grateful to be co-advised by Associate Professor Wolfgang Gatterbauer and Associate Professor Mirek Riedewald at Data Lab.
May 2023 – Aug. 2023 AI Research Scientist Intern at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Sept. 2020 – Present Research Assistant at Data Lab
May 2022 – Aug. 2022 Graduate Research Intern at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Nov. 2018 – Jul. 2019 Smart Grow Nepal Private Limited, Bhaktapur, Nepal
Apr. 2017 – Mar. 2018 Vortex Energy Solution, Lalitpur, Nepal
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Apr. 2018 – Mar. 2019 4G Nepal Private Limited, Kupondole, Lalitpur, Nepal
Project Highlights
Jun 2020 - Present Core Team member at Brainycube Research, Kathmandu, Nepal
Apr. 2020 – Present Technical Head at Career Counselling, Nepal
Selected News articles published in Nepal
Nov. 2017 – Dec. 2019 Secretary at Group of Innovation in Technology (GIT), Nepal
Jun 2018 Key Speaker at Education Fair, Jhapa, Nepal
Oct 2017 Program Coordinator and Presenter at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Last Updated on: April 22, 2023