I am a postdoc associate in Database Group at MIT CSAIL, working with Professors Sam Madden and Michael Stonebraker. My current research focusses on improving the performance of novel large-scale data-intensive systems. I received my PhD from Saarland University in August 2012, working with Prof. Jens Dittrich. During my PhD, I worked on flexible and scalable data storage for traditional databases as well as for MapReduce. Before that I received bachelor degree from IIT Kanpur.

• Database Systems
• Large-scale Data-intensive Systems
• Data Management in the Cloud, MapReduce
• Data Preparation and Physical Database Design
• Graph Analytics

• Vertexica
• Cartilage
• OctopusDB
• Hadoop++/HAIL

• Zuhair Khayyat, Ihab F. Ilyas, Alekh Jindal, Samuel Madden, Mourad Ouzzani, Paolo Papotti, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Nan Tang, Si Yin
  BigDansing: A System for Big Data Cleansing
  SIGMOD 2015, Melbourne, Australia. (to appear)


• Alekh Jindal
  Robust Data Transformations
  CIDR 2015, Asilomar, USA. (Abstract)


• Alekh Jindal, Samuel Madden, Malu Castellanos, Meichun Hsu
  Graph Analytics using the Vertica Relational Database
  arXiv:1412.5263 [cs.DB], Dec 17, 2014


• Alekh Jindal, Samuel Madden
  GraphiQL: A Graph Intuitive Query Language for Relational Databases
  IEEE BigData 2014, Washington DC, USA. (Acceptance rate: 18.5%) [slides]


• Alekh Jindal, Praynaa Rawlani, Eugene Wu, Samuel Madden, Amol Deshpande, Mike Stonebraker
  Vertexica: Your Relational Friend for Graph Analytics!
  VLDB 2014, Hangzhou, China. (Demo paper)


• Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Alekh Jindal, Jens Dittrich
  The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking
  VLDB 2014/PVLDB, Hangzhou, China. [Source Code]
  Best Paper Award


• Alekh Jindal, Endre Palatinus, Vladimir Pavlov, Jens Dittrich
  A Comparison of Knives for Bread Slicing
  VLDB 2013/PVLDB, Riva, Italy.


• Alekh Jindal, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Samuel Madden
  Cartilage: Adding Flexibility to the Hadoop Skeleton
  SIGMOD 2013, New York, USA. (Demo paper) [poster]


• Barzan Mozafari, Carlo Curino, Alekh Jindal, Samuel Madden
  Performance and Resource Modeling in Highly-Concurrent OLTP Workloads
  SIGMOD 2013, New York, USA.


• Alekh Jindal, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Jens Dittrich
  WWHow! Freeing Data Storage from Cages
  CIDR 2013, Asilomar, USA.


• Alekh Jindal, Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Jens Dittrich, Karen Khachatryan, Alexander Bunte
  How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy
  CIDR 2013, Asilomar, USA. [slides]


• Jens Dittrich, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz, Stefan Richter, Stefan Schuh, Alekh Jindal, Jörg Schad
  Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants
  VLDB 2012/PVLDB, Istanbul, Turkey.


• Alekh Jindal, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Jens Dittrich
  Trojan Data Layouts: Right Shoes for a Running Elephant
  ACM SOCC 2011, Cascais, Portugal. [slides] [poster]


• Alekh Jindal, Jens Dittrich
  Relax and Let the Database do the Partitioning Online
  VLDB BIRTE 2011, Seattle, USA. TR [slides]


• Jens Dittrich, Alekh Jindal
  Towards a one-size-fits-all Database Architecture
  CIDR 2011, Outrageous Ideas and Vision Track, Asilomar, USA.
  Best Outrageous Ideas and Vision Paper Award (CCC Blog)


• Jens Dittrich, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Alekh Jindal, Yagiz Kargin, Vinay Setty, and Jörg Schad.
  Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing)
  VLDB 2010, Singapore.


• Alekh Jindal
  The Mimicking Octopus: Towards a one-size-fits-all Database Architecture
  VLDB 2010 PhD Workshop, Singapore. [slides] [poster]

• Replicated data storage system and methods (WO2013139379).
• A method for storing and accessing data in a database system (WO2012032184, US20130226959).

• 2016: Proceedings Chair, SIGMOD
• 2015: PC Member, PVLDB SIGMOD EDBT Demo
• 2014: PC Member, PVLDB; Referee, SIGMOD Record
• 2013: Reviewer, PVLDB SIGMOD ICDE CIKM DAPD
• 2012: Reviewer, PVLDB ICDE
• 2011: Reviewer, EDBT
• 2010: Reviewer, VLDB

• April 2013 - Present:
  Postdoctoral Associate, CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
  Focus: Big Data Analytics.
  Mentor: Prof. Samuel Madden


• February 2010 - August 2012:
  Ph.D. (Summa Cum Laude), Computer Science, Saarland University, Germany.
  Thesis: OctopusDB:Flexible and Scalable Storage Management for Arbitrary Database Engines. PDF
  Supervisor: Prof. Jens Dittrich


• October 2008 - January 2010:
  Master of Science (honors), Computer Science, Saarland University & Max Plank Institute for Informatics, Germany.
  Thesis: Quality in Phrase Mining. PDF
  Supervisors: Prof. Jens Dittrich, Prof. Gerhard Weikum


• July 2002 - June 2006:
  Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
  Thesis: Microcontroller Based Power Distribution Monitoring & Control.
  Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Das