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Assistant Professor
ahana [dot] pradhan [at] iiitb [dot] ac [dot] in
Education : Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Ahana Pradhan has completed her M.Tech. and Ph.D. (dual degree) from CSE, IIT Bombay in 2018 (Specialization: Petri nets and Workflow Systems, Supervisor: Dr. Rushikesh K. Joshi), and has recently completed her postdoctoral research (2023-2025) from CDS, IISc. (Specialization: Databases, Supervisor: Dr. Jayant R. Haritsa). She has 6 years of industry R&D experience (2017-2023) in database technologies from Huawei India. She completed her bachelor's in Computer Science from BESU, Shibpur in 2011. She broadly works in the area of databases, where her interests lie in optimization, reverse engineering, and compliant planning of analytic queries. She is an active programmer and very keen on POC-based systems work. Apart from academics, she has interests in painting and music, and was a finisher in the Bangalore Half Marathon 2018.
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Relational Databases, Query reverse engineering, Query Processing and Optimization, Data Compliance, Program generation and testing.
Defog: Extending Hidden Query Extraction to Group Filters (Ahana Pradhan, Alaap Surendran, Jayant Haritsa)
Full List: dblp: Ahana Pradhan
Introduction to Object Oriented Deisgn Principles (C++) : Autumn Semester (2025-2026)
Intruduction to Database Systems: Spring Semester (2025-2026)
Latest Research: Research Paper Acceptance at IKDD CODS 2025!
Services: Reviewer for ADCOM 2025 Advanced Computing and Communications 2025 – ACCS, Publicity Chair for SIGMOD 2026 The 2026 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference: Bengaluru, India - Organizers
Link to my IITB Website (very old, was last updated a decade ago): AHANA
Best paper runner up @CODS 2025 Research Track!