Amit Manjhi currently work at Inflection AI manjhi [AT] cs [DOT] cmu [DOT] edu

CSE-IITK CMU-CSD

General

I defended in March 2008. My dissertation was on "Increasing the Scalability of Dynamic Web Applications." My thesis advisors were: Bruce Maggs, Todd Mowry, and Chris Olston. I currently work at Inflection AI.

Experience (Updated Dec 2024)

• Nov 2024 - Present. Member of Technical Staff at Inflection AI. Inflection AI is bringing AI to enterprises.
  
  
• Apr 2020 - Nov 2024. Co-founder & CEO of BoostKPI, an AI data analyst used by public companies and startups. BoostKPI was acquired by Inflection AI. TechCrunch, SiliconAngle, DigWatch.
  
  
• June 2018 - March 2020. Head of Exchange/Publisher Integrations at Wish. Enabled our internal bidder to buy ads directly on exchanges and publishers via RTB. Scaled the ad request volumes across key geos. Scaled the bidder architecture to multi-region (to enable bidding on Google's exchange globally)
  
  
• May 2011 - June 2018. Co-founder & CTO TapSense. Thanks to all customers, partners, colleagues, and investors for the wonderful journey. Highlights: we built a scalable bidder for UA and retargeting. Scaled annual gross revenue to double digit millions. TapSense was acquired by Wish.
  
  
• Feb 2008 - May 2011. Software engineer at Google, where I worked on GWT, Search, and AdWords. Received an OC award in 2010.
  
  
• Jan 2007 - May 2007. Co-founder Buxfer.
  
  

Research

I am interested in management of distributed, dynamic data. Specifically, I work on the S3 project. In the past, I have worked on sensor networks, distributed data streams, and improving web performance in broadcast-unicast networks.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, CMU (Sept 2001 - March 2008, leave of absence from Jan 2007 - May 2007 to start Buxfer)
• B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Kanpur (1997 to 2001)
• X1 & XII class, D.P.S., R.K. Puram, New Delhi, India (1995 to 1997)
• Upto class X (high school), Saint Joseph's School, Bhagalpur, India (upto 1995)

Professional activities

• Program committee member, ICDE 2010.
• Reviewer for CIDR, PODS, SIGMOD, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and VLDB.

Publications

• Holistic Query Transformations for Dynamic Web Applications (with Charles Garrod, Bruce M. Maggs, Todd C. Mowry, and Anthony Tomasic). Published in ICDE '09.
  
  
• Increasing the Scalability of Dynamic Web Applications, Ph.D. dissertation, CMU Tech Report CMU-CS-08-105.
  
  
• Scalable Query Result Caching for Web Applications (with Charles Garrod and many others). Published in VLDB, 2008.
  
  
• Invalidation Clues for Database Scalability Services (with Phillip B. Gibbons, Anastassia Ailamaki, Charles Garrod, Bruce M. Maggs, Todd C. Mowry, Christopher Olston, Anthony Tomasic, and Haifeng Yu). Published in ICDE '07.
  
  
• Simultaneous Scalability and Security for Data-Intensive Web Applications (with Anastassia Ailamaki, Bruce M. Maggs, Todd C. Mowry, Christopher Olston, and Anthony Tomasic). Published in SIGMOD '06.
  
  
• Tributaries and Deltas: Efficient and Robust Aggregation in Sensor Network Streams (with Suman Nath, and Phillip B. Gibbons). Published in SIGMOD '05.
  
  
• A Scalability Service for Dynamic Web Applications (with Christopher Olston, Charles Garrod, Anastassia Ailamaki, Bruce M. Maggs, and Todd C. Mowry). Published in CIDR '05.
  
  
• Finding (Recently) Frequent Items in Distributed Data Streams (with Vladislav Shkapenyuk, Kedar Dhamdhere, and Christopher Olston). Published in ICDE '05.
  
  
• Improving Web Performance in Broadcast-Unicast Networks (with Mukesh Agrawal, Nikhil Bansal, and Srinivasan Seshan). Published in Infocom '03.
  
  
• A Framework for Studying Economic Behavior of Agents (with Dheeraj Sanghi). Published in CIT '01.

Cool stuff

• My Erdös Number is Three.
• (Involved till May 2007) I co-founded a Web-based startup Buxfer.com that helps twenty-somethings track their debts and personal expenses. Buxfer got fantastic news coverage, in mainstream media (Post-Gazette, Washington Post), in popular blogs ( LifeHacker, TechCrunch, NetBanker) and of course CMU ( CMU website, SCS website, CMU newspaper).
• Ported the TPC-W implementation  in Java to Tomcat+Mysql. I had published the instructions but seem to have misplaced the file. Luckily, others on the web have also published instructions.

Other Responsibilities

• I was a TA for 15-213: Introduction to Computer Systems in Fall 2006
• I maintain the Fellowship Database
• I was the TA for Graduate Computer Networks in Fall 2002

Course Projects

• Computer Architecture project, Exploring Different L2 Cache Designs for Reducing Cache Misses, Dec 2001, final report [ps]
• Advanced Operating systems project, Making Big Programs Faster: Implementing a Compiler-based I/O Prefetching System for Linux, Dec 2001, final report [ps]
• Computer Networks project, Anonymous Identity and Trust for Peer-to-Peer Networks, May 2002 final report [pdf]
• Databases project, Large Graph Sampling and Visualization, May 2003, final report [ps]

More Stuff

• Max Ehrmann's Desiderata
• Hamming's advice for doing good research
• Database group @CMU
• Of late, if you have found Times of India, a newspaper (more appropriately, a tabloid) that claims to be India's leading daily, disgusting, Times of India rants is for you. Use google's redirection (no direct link for obvious reasons) to see it for yourself.