Publications

@conference{Zhang2026,

title = {OctoSelector: Efficient and Effective Batch-Aware Model Selection for Large Language Models},

author = {G. Zhang and Y. Lin and S. Mehrotra},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-09-01},

urldate = {2026-09-01},

booktitle = {SIGMOD},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Das2026,

title = {SmartRabbit: An Interactive Query Processor},

author = {P. Das and M. Boissier and K. Kim and S. Mehrotra and T. Rabl},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-09-01},

urldate = {2026-09-01},

booktitle = {SIGMOD},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Habibi2026,

title = {Brook-2PL: Tolerating High Contention Workloads with A Deadlock-Free Two-Phase Locking Protocol},

author = {Farzad Habibi and Juncheng Fang and Tania Lorido and Faisal Nawab},

url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18576},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-09-01},

urldate = {2025-09-01},

booktitle = {SIGMOD 2026 (International Conference of Management of Data)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Colaco2026,

title = {GENIE : Simulator-Driven Iterative Data Exploration for Scientific Discovery},

author = {Ashwin Gerard Colaco and Martin Boissier and Sriram Rao and Shubharoop Ghosh and Sharad Mehrotra and Tilmann Rabl},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-04-01},

booktitle = {IEEE ICDE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Rahman2026,

title = {GRACE: Querying for Novelty in Data Streams under Resource Constraints},

author = {F. Rahman and S. Halim and P. Saha and L. Khan and K. Chan and M. Lucia and K. Hamlen and M. Kantarcioglu and S. Mehrotra and A. Swami and B. Thuraisingham},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-04-01},

booktitle = {IEEE WCCI},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Fu2026,

title = {In-context Clustering-based Entity Resolution with Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration},

author = {Jiajie Fu and Haitong Tang and Arijit Khan and Sharad Mehrotra and Xiangyu Ke and Yunjun Gao},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-01-01},

urldate = {2026-01-01},

booktitle = {ACM SIGMOD},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Suleymanov2025,

title = {SSPNet: Semi-Supervised Prototypical Networks for Few-Shot Network Intrusion Detection},

author = {Umid Suleymanov and Murat Kantarcioglu and Kevin S Chan and Michael De Lucia and Kevin Hamlen and Latifur Khan and Ananthram Swami and Bhavani Thuraisingham},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-04-01},

booktitle = {MILCOM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{nokey,

title = {ClusterFed: Self-Supervised Federated Network Intrusion Detection Using Clustering},

author = {Saquib Irtiza and Latifur Khan and Kevin Hamlen and Kevin S Chan and Michael De Lucia and Murat Kantarcioglu and Sharad Mehrotra and Ananthram Swami and Bhavani Thuraisingham},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-04-01},

urldate = {2026-04-01},

booktitle = {MILCOM},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Chio2025b,

title = {Demo Abstract: SEQUIN: A Network Science and Physics-based Approach to Identify Sequential Nk Attacks in Electric Power Grids},

author = {Andrew Chio and Russell Bent and Kaarthik Sundar and Nalini Venkatasubramanian},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3716550.3725165},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 16th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (with CPS-IoT Week 2025), Poster and Demo Session},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Chio2025,

title = {SEQUIN: A Network Science and Physics-based Approach to Identify Sequential Nk Attacks in Electric Power Grids},

author = {Andrew Chio and Russell Bent and Kaarthik Sundar and Nalini Venkatasubramanian},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3716550.3722029},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 16th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (with CPS-IoT Week 2025)},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Zhang2025,

title = {(Invited Paper) Towards Secure Data Management using Multi-cryptographic Solutions},

author = {Shufan Zhang and Xi He and Ashish Kund and Sujaya Maiyya and Sharad Mehrotra and Shantanu Sharma},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {DAC},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Hildebrant2025,

title = {DIM-SUM: Dynamic IMputation for Smart Utility Management},

author = {Ryan Hildebrant and Rahul Bhope and Sharad Mehrotra and Christopher Tull and Nalini Venkatasubramanian},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {VLDB},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Chakraborty2025,

title = {Meaningful Data Erasure in the Presence of Dependencies},

author = {Vishal Chakraborty and Youri Kaminsky and Sharad Mehrotra and Felix Naumann and Faisal Nawab and Primal Pappachan and Mohammad Sadoghi and Nalini Venkatasubramanian},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {VLDB},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Li2025,

title = {Access Control for Information-Theoretically Secure Data},

author = {Yin Li and Sharad Mehrotra and Shantanu Sharma and Komal Kumari},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {VLDB},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Luti2025,

title = {FOVDA: A Federated Architecture for Overcoming Data Silos in Water Domain [Vision]},

author = {Malik Luti and David Feldman and ZhengHui Hu and Sharad Mehrotra and Marina Mendoza and Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Roberto Yus and Ronald Eguchi},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84457-7_39},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {Future of Information and Communication Conference},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Yus2025,

title = {Modeling Inhabited Smart Spaces to Support Interoperable IoT-Based Applications},

author = {Roberto Yus and Nada Lahjouji and Georgios Bouloukakis and Sharad Mehrotra and Nalini Venkatasubramanian},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {The 26th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Huang2024b,

title = {Demonstration of Udon: Line-by-line Debugging of User-Defined Functions in Data Workflows},

author = {Yicong Huang and Zuozhi Wang and Chen LI},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3626246.3654756},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-04-17},

booktitle = {SIGMOD 2024 Demo Track},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Taylor2024,

title = {Data Science Tasks Implemented with Scripts versus GUI-Based Workflows: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly},

author = {Alexander K. Taylor and Yicong Huang and Junheng Hao and Xinyuan Lin and Xiusi Chen and Wei Wang and Chen Li},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-02-27},

booktitle = {ICDE 2024, DataPlat Workshop},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Nawab2024,

title = {The Tipping Point of Edge-Cloud Data Management},

author = {Faisal Nawab and Moshe Shadmon},

url = {https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2024/papers/p71-nawab.pdf},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {CIDR},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Huang2024,

title = {SES: Bridging the Gap Between Explainability and Prediction of Graph Neural Networks},

author = {Zhenhua Huang and Kunhao Li and Shaojie Wang and Zhaohong Jia and Wentao Zhu and Sharad Mehrotra},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {ICDE 2024},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Han2024,

title = {Hiding Access-pattern is Not Enough! Veil: A Storage and Communication Efficient Volume Hiding Algorithm},

author = {Shanshan Han and Vishal Chakraborty and Michael Goodrich and Sharad Mehrotra and Shantanu Sharma},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {SIGMOD 2024},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Chakraborty2024,

title = {Data-CASE: Grounding Data Regulations for Compliant Data Processing Systems},

author = {Vishal Chakraborty and Stacy Ann-Elvy and Sharad Mehrotra and Faisal Nawab and Muhammad Sadoghi and Shantanu Sharma and Nalini Venkatsubhramanian and Farhan Saeed},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {EDBT 2024},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Huang2023b,

title = {Udon: Efficient Debugging of User-Defined Functions in Big Data Systems with Line-by-Line Control},

author = {Yicong Huang and Zuozhi Wang and Chen Li},

url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626712},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

booktitle = {SIGMOD 2024},

journal = {SIGMOD 2024},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Allred2023,

title = {Testing CareDEX: SAGAT methodology deployed for a disaster drill at a senior living community},

author = {Aaron Allred and Alfonso Arauz and Mowhebat Bazargani and Rahul Bhope and Erin Boomershine and Nnenia Campbell and Christopher B. Davison and Nikil Dutt and Ronald Eguchi and Lisa Gibbs and ZhengHui Hu and Modeste Kenne and Sharad Mehrotra and Davis Park and Celeste Penney and Julie Rousseau and Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Guoxi Wang},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-11-01},

booktitle = {IACIS Annual 23 - Clearwaterm BT 2023},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Kargar2023,

title = {Hamming Tree: The case for Energy-Aware Indexing for NVMs},

author = {Saeed Kargar and Faisal Nawab},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-10-10},

booktitle = {SIGMOD 2023},

journal = {SIGMOD 2023},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Huang2023,

title = {SRACas: A Social Role-Aware Graph Neural Network-Based Model for Popularity Prediction of Information Cascades},

author = {Zhenhua Huang and Yuhang He and Shaojie Wang and Zhenyu Wang and Ruifeng Xu and Sharad Mehrotra},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-10-10},

booktitle = {The 28th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Alsudais2023,

title = {Raven: Accelerating Execution of Iterative Data Analytics by Reusing Results of Previous Equivalent Versions},

author = {Sadeem Alsudais and Avinash Kumar and Chen Li},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-09-05},

booktitle = {HILDA@Sigmod 2023},

journal = {HILDA@Sigmod 2023},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Bai2023,

title = {Demo of Squidster: Supporting Middleware-based SQL Query Rewriting as a Service},

author = {Qiushi Bai and Sadeem Alsudais and Chen Li},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-09-05},

booktitle = {VLDB},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Bai2023b,

title = {QueryBooster: Improving SQL Performance Using Middleware Services for Human-Centered Query Rewriting},

author = {Qiushi Bai and Sadeem Alsudais and Chen Li},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-09-05},

booktitle = {VLDB},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Singh2023,

title = {WedgeBlock: An Off-Chain Secure Logging Platform for Blockchain Applications},

author = {Abhishek A. Singh and Yinan Zhou and Mohammad Sadoghi and Sharad Mehrotra and Shantanu Sharma, Faisal Nawab},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-09-05},

booktitle = {EDBT},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Sharma2023,

title = {Information-Theoretically Secure and Highly Efficient Search and Row Retrieval},

author = {Shantanu Sharma and Yin Li and Sharad Mehrotra and Nisha Panwar and Komal Kumari and Swagnik Roychoudhury},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-09-05},

booktitle = {VLDB},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Singh2023b,

title = {TransEdge: Supporting Efficient Read Queries Across Untrusted Edge Nodes},

author = {Abhishek A. Singh and Aasim Khan and Sharad Mehrotra and Faisal Nawab},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-09-05},

booktitle = {EDBT},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Ray2023,

title = {SAFE-PASS: Stewardship, Advocacy, Fairness and Empowerment in Privacy, Accountability, Security, and Safety for Vulnerable Groups},

author = {Indrajit Ray and Bhavani Thuraisingham and Jaideep Vaidya and Sharad Mehrotra and Vijayalakshmi Atluri and Indrakshi Ray and Murat Kantarcioglu and Ramesh Raskar and Babak Salimi and Steve Simske and Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Vivek K. Singh},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-09-05},

booktitle = {SACMAT},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Tran2023,

title = {Unstick Yourself: Recoverable Byzantine Fault Tolerant Services},

author = {Tuan Tran and Faisal Nawab and Owen Arden and Peter Alvaro},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-08-28},

booktitle = {ICBC 2023},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Wang2023,

title = {Fries: Fast and Consistent Runtime Reconfiguration in Dataflow Systems with Transactional Guarantees},

author = {Zuozhi Wang and Shengquan Ni and Avinash Kumar and Chen Li},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-08-28},

booktitle = {VLDB 2023},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{onCase2023,

title = {ML on Chain: The Case and Taxonomy of Machine Learning on Blockchain},

author = {Binbin Gu and Abhishek Singh and Yinan Zhou and Juncheng Fang and Faisal Nawab},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-08-28},

booktitle = {ICBC 2023},

journal = {ICDC 2023},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}