Sunil Prabhakar       Associate Professor       Computer Science

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Sunil Prabhakar received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1998, and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Techonology, Delhi. Since August 1998 he has been with the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. Dr. Prabhakar's research focuses on performance and privacy issues in large-scale, modern database applications. He is currently working on uncertainty management and efficient execution for high-update database applications such as moving object and sensor databases, enhancing privacy and digital rights management for databases, and the development of advanced databases for bioinformatics. Prior to joining Purdue, Dr. Prabhakar held a position with Tata Unisys Ltd. from 1990 to 1994.