Vishal ("Vi"/"Vee" as in "Tea")
vi-dot-c-at-uci-dot-edu
I am a postdoctoral scholar working with Felix Naumann in the Database Group at the Hasso Plattner Institut. I am cofunded by a DAAD fellowship.
Research focus: privacy and security in data management, access control, and query optimization in policy-constrained environments.
Mentees: Arnav Abhijit Dhariya (B.S. @ UCI), Farhan Saeed (M.S., '22 @ UCI)
Industry experience: Interned at Cisco Research and the Air Force Research Lab.
Education:
Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine (Advisor: Sharad Mehrotra).
M.Phil. at the University of Cambridge (Advisor: Anuj Dawar).
B.S. in Computer Science & B.A. in Philosophy at the University of California, Davis.
Towards Inference-Aware Privacy Guidance for Data Preparation (QDB '26, VLDB 2026)
Vishal Chakraborty, Felix Naumann
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WorkloadWeaver: Realistic Synthetic Workloads for Adaptive Database Systems (SynthAI '26, SIGMOD 2026)
Keming Li, Nada Lahjouji, Ashwin Gerard Colaco, Shiyuan Zhou, Pratyoy Das, Guangxue Zhang, Sahil Makhijani, Vishal Chakraborty, Sarvesh Pandey, Sharad Mehrotra
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Inference-Aware & Privacy-Preserving Deletion in Databases (SeQureDB'26, SIGMOD 2026),
Vishal Chakraborty, Youri Kaminsky, Arnav A Dhariya, Sharad Mehrotra, Felix Naumann, Sarvesh Pandey
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Meaningful Data Erasure In The Presence of Dependencies (VLDB 2025),
Vishal Chakraborty, Youri Kaminsky, Sharad Mehrotra, Felix Naumann, Faisal Nawab, Primal Pappachan, Mohammad Sadoghi, Nalini Venkatsubhramanian
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Data-CASE: Data-CASE: Grounding Data Regulations for Compliant Data Processing Systems (EDBT 2024),
Vishal Chakraborty, Stacy Ann-Elvy, Sharad Mehrotra, Faisal Nawab, Mohammad Sadoghi, Shantanu Sharma, Nalini Venkatsubhramanian, Farhan Saeed
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VEIL: A Storage and Communication Efficient Volume-Hiding Algorithm (SIGMOD 2024),
Shanshan Han, Vishal Chakraborty, Michael Goodrich, Sharad Mehrotra, Shantanu Sharma
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Croesus: Multi-Stage Processing and Transactions for Video-Analytics in Edge-Cloud Systems (ICDE 2022)
Samaa Gazzaz, Vishal Chakraborty, Faisal Nawab
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Classifying the Complexity of the Possible Winner Problem on Partial Chains (AAMAS 2021),
Vishal Chakraborty, Phokion Kolaitis
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Algorithmic Techniques for Necessary and Possible Winners (ToDS 2021),
Vishal Chakraborty, Theo Delemazure, Benny Kimelfeld, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Kunal Relia, Julia Stoyanovich
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GreenFLY: Adding Carbon to the Equation in Online Flight Searches (DUXU 2017),
A. Sanguinetti, A. Kwon, Y. Li, V. Chakraborty, S. Sikand, O. Tarehlo, Y.Chend, N. Amenta
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