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Dr. Sudipto Das, who received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science in 2011, has received the 2013 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation entitled “Scalable and Elastic Transactional Data Stores for Cloud Computing Platforms.” The citation of the award announcement notes that the work was “remarkable for its breadth of scope, its comprehensive implementation and thorough performance evaluation.”

Dr. Das was a member of the Distributed Systems Lab at UCSB and was co-advised by Prof. Divy Agrawal and Prof. Amr El Abbadi. He is now a researcher in the Data Management, Exploration, and Mining (DMX) group at Microsoft Research.

Congratulations, Sudipto!