Democratizing Data Science and Lessons Learned Along the Way

                                 Aditya Parameswaran (UC Berkeley)
Abstract
The talk will cover our multi-year research agenda on democratizing data science, including the development of
scalable spreadsheet tools, and interactive visualization search and recommendation tools. I will discuss how we
arrived at this research agenda. I will also discuss roadblocks in my career and for this research agenda -- and,
specifically, rejections, rejections, and more rejections -- and how I handled them, with help from colleagues and
students.



Bio
Aditya Parameswaran is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Aditya works on systems and
algorithms for "human-in-the-loop" data analytics. Until last year, Aditya was an Assistant Professor at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He spent a year as a PostDoc at MIT CSAIL following his PhD at Stanford
University. Aditya has received a number of awards, most notable being the SIGMOD 2020 Best Paper Award, the
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the VLDB Early Career Research Contributions Award, the ARO Young
Investigator Program Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the TCDE Rising Star Award, and multiple "best" doctoral
dissertation awards (from SIGMOD, SIGKDD, and Stanford).