👋 Welcome!

I'm Gaurav Tarlok Kakkar, a computer science researcher and developer based out of Atlanta. My passion lies at the intersection of machine learning and data management, and I enjoy building systems that enhance the experiences of ML/DB practitioners.

I'm currently pursuing my Ph.D. in databases at the Georgia Institute of Technology under the guidance of Joy Arulraj . Before this, I served as a Software Engineer at Adobe. I contributed to the database query engine at Snowflake, an in-memory columnar cache for PostgreSQL at Google, and engaged in research at Adobe Research.

Before pursuing my Ph.D., I earned my master's degree at Georgia Tech and completed my bachelor's at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. During my master's program, my encounter with database internals prompted me to initiate the development of EvaDB, which forms the foundation of my Ph.D. thesis. At IIT Kanpur, I was honored with the prestigious Dr. Elizabeth & Dr. Varkey Cherian Award for the best undergraduate project .

Research

• EvaDB: database system tailored for accelerating emerging AI apps.
• Adaptive Query Engine for LLM/vision workloads.
• Model-Aware Storage Management for large scale video analytics.
• LLM-powered retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Revisiting Query Processing for large scale video analytics

Get in Touch

You can get in touch with me via email at gtk@gatech.edu. Additionally, I'm active on Twitter and Github.