As Ohio State continues to expand its role in the commercialization of research, it is important to create an environment that facilitates and rewards research creativity and entrepreneurship. To support and stimulate entrepreneurial activity among Ohio State researchers, three university-wide innovator awards are presented as part of the Research and Innovation Showcase hosted by the Office of Research and Corporate Engagement Office. Join us in congratulating the 2020 Early Career Innovator of the Year.
Arnab Nandi, PhD
Watch a video on Dr. Nandi’s work on data analyzing tools for industry and data practitioners.
Arnab Nandi is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research focus is on database systems, on large-scale data analytics and next-generation human-in-the-loop query interfaces. His work spans database systems, interactive visualization, human-computer interaction and information retrieval. Nandi is a recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, a Google Faculty Research Award and the IEEE TCDE Early Career Award for his contributions towards user-focused data interaction. He co-founded the OHI/O Hackathon and Informal Learning Program that hosts some of the region’s largest hackathons to foster a tech culture amongst students. He is also a co-founder of the STEAM Factory, an interdisciplinary network for research collaboration and dissemination. Most recently, Nandi co-founded Mobikit, an Ohio State technology commercialization spinoff company, based on his work in spatiotemporal data analytics.Nandi received his PhD in computer science from the University of Michigan.
The Early Career Innovator of the Year award recognizes early career researchers Ohio State researchers who are actively working to promote commercialization of university intellectual property, through invention disclosures filed, patents applied for and/or received, technologies licensed or spin-off companies formed.
Video Transcript
My name is Arnab Nandi. I'm an associate professor in the computer science and engineering department at the Ohio State University. If you look at the world around us, all devices these days generate tremendous amounts of data. If you think about cars generating data that is moving into the cloud, being able to analyze them, process them, and extract insights from them.
Allows you to build smarter cities, allows you to move vehicles better and faster, all the way to creating actual solutions that help business move more efficiently. Data practitioners in the industry have massive amounts of data that they can do a lot of really, really impactful things with. But they lack the tools to actually analyze, understand, and come to action with this kind of data.
Being able to build the tools for them allows us to essentially have a massive impact on them as well. And so coming up with an interactive analytics stack for mobility has been a pursuit that we've been following for the last few years. And we've only now been able to get this into the hands of actual industry practitioners and data practitioners in this space.