Pankaj Mehra (पंकज मेहरा)

Current

• Industry Visitor, Computer Science Department/Logic Group/Collaborative Data Management at Stanford University
• Chief Scientist of HP Labs Russia at Hewlett-Packard
• Technical leader of Taxonom.com and Kosh incubation at Hewlett-Packard

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Past

• Distinguished Technologist (Information Services) at HP StorageWorks
• Principal Member of Tech Staff at Compaq / HP
• CTO at IntelliFabric

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

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Pankaj Mehra (पंकज मेहरा)’s Summary

It is hard to summarize something that is still a work in progress, nevertheless I shall try. I feel lucky that early in my career I found a few good people to look up to and learn from. SN Maheshwari@IITD baptized me into Software and Computer Science, PVS Rao@TIFR into research, Larry Rendell@UIUC into machine learning and scholarly work, Bob Horst@Tandem Labs into invention, Jim Gray@Stanford98 into databases and transaction processing, Gary Campbell@Tandem/Compaq/HP into technology strategy, ... The other thing was that I had an opportunity to work at great places: NASA Ames where I finally learned supercomputing, vector calculus, PDEs and numerical methods, IITD where I learned to work for greater reasons than money or fame, Tandem where I encountered my first industry-grade "Lab" and really immersed myself into systems (for 8 years). IBM Watson and HP Labs knocked much needed humility back into me (so much to learn, so little time!). All along, lasting collaborations with wonderful friends and colleagues -- Munindar Singh@NCSU, Rob Wijngaart@NASA, Sam Fineberg@Tandem/Compaq/HP StorageWorks/LittleBasin, Kave Eshghi@HP Labs, and Roger Brooks@HP Labs/HP Software -- have kept me productive and engaged. My students and interns have made me look better than I am: Michelle Gower, Mike Bass, Rob Block, Rahul Nim, Deepavali Bhagwat, Denis Turdakov, Maxim Lukichev. Somehow, I have learned to see things ahead of time and through God's grace have found the strength to stand up for my ideas and been blessed with the company of those who have chosen to walk with me on the road less traveled. These days, I split my time between Princeton-based customers, HPL Palo Alto, HPL St. Petersburg, Stanford InfoLab on Fridays, SDForum in early evenings, and rest of it on Skype, phone, and netmeeting. Don't be surprised if you find me inTomsk, Novosibirsk, or Moscow either!

Pankaj Mehra (पंकज मेहरा)’s Specialties:

Scalable information management system design. Financial information mining. Technical due diligence. Technology strategy. Idea generation. Mentoring of young researchers. University alliances. International expansion, with specific experience with organizations in USA, India, and Russia.

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Pankaj Mehra (पंकज मेहरा)’s Interests:

semantics, dimensionality reduction, volleyball, robotics

Pankaj Mehra (पंकज मेहरा)’s Honors:

Terabyte Sort Daytona Trophy from Jim Gray;
numerous others starting with Cadbury's Best All-Rounder in India in 1978, Junior Science Talent Scholarship, National Talent Search Scholarship, National Mathematics Olympiad, Sanskrit scholarship and college-level proficiency certification while still in middle school, Merit certificates at IIT Delhi, Engineering Honors Society at Illinois, Phi Beta Kappa invitation, Recognition from NASA and Sandia National Labs, ...

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