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I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. I work in the Database Research Group group with H. V. Jagadish.

My research interests fall under the areas of databases and information retrieval. My current focus is on making search in databases easier, as part of my groups broader goal of making databases usable.

Before graduate school, I worked with Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti and Prof. S. Sudarshan at IIT Bombay. I was part of the BANKS and SPIN projects, where I worked on various aspects of ranking graph-based data.

During my undergraduate years at the University of Delhi, I teamed up with 2 of my college-mates to start idya Research, where we developed novel web-based applications.

I have also had the opportunity of interning with Media Lab Asia, and the technical research group at Yahoo! Bangalore. I worked at Google in the summer of 2007.

I am also a recipient of the Yahoo! Research Fellowship for 2008-2009.

Publications:

• Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish: Effective Phrase Prediction: VLDB, 2007.

• Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish: Assisted querying using instant-response interfaces: SIGMOD 2007

• Magesh Jayapandian, Adriane Chapman, V. Glenn Tarcea, Cong Yu, Aaron Elkiss, Angela Ianni, Bin Liu, Arnab Nandi, Carlos Santos, Philip Andrews, Brian Athey, David States, H. V. Jagadish: Michigan Molecular Interactions (MiMI): putting the jigsaw puzzle together. Nucleic Acids Research 35(Database-Issue): 566-571 (2007)

• Soumen Chakrabarti, Jeetendra Mirchandani, Arnab Nandi: SPIN: searching personal information networks. SIGIR 2005: 674

Apart from research, I have also been a contributor to Drupal, the framework that runs this website. I created the Captcha and Similar Entries modules, which are now maintained by other members of the Drupal community.

TimepassTown.com was the website I had created when I was fresh out of high school. With the aim of coming up with a better way to pass time on the Internet, TpT (as we fondly called it) evolved in three iterations into a community-based literary showcase. People would submit poetry, stories, weblog posts, and other interesting content covering a myriad of topics.