Pankaj Mehra Assoc Editor, IEEE Internet Computing Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett-Packard	Find Pankaj Mehra on Linkedin for latest updates on professional life.
Biography: I work at HP Labs in the beautiful historic city of St. Petersburg Russia. I lead the Taxonom.com business for HP. In the past, I led the design of sub-document deduplication in HP’s Reference Information Storage Server and was one of the core architects of HP’s NonStop Advanced Architecture. At HP's NonStop Labs in Cupertino, my work on Apsara architecture for servers targeted unification of I/O and memory subsystems, and advanced the notion of Whole System Programming (WSP). I also worked on smart switches, network  management for InfiniBand and ServerNet, low-latency interconnection topologies, scalability analysis of message-passing parallel programs, automated load balancing, and constructive induction for machine learning. I designed the ServerNet configuration for a 72-node cluster of Compaq Proliant 1850R servers that, in 1998, was the first computer to break the one-hour barrier on sorting a terabyte of data, for which I was recognized by Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, and awarded a medal by Turing Award winner Jim Gray. In 1997, I designed the SCSI controller device drivers for a Windows NT-based Tandem ServerNet cluster that created a new TPC-C performance record at that time for clusters; it ran Oracle Parallel Server on a configuration comprising 6 Proliant 6500 servers and 96 SCSI controllers supporting 356 disk drives. I serve on the Editorial Board of IEEE Internet Computing and am program committee member for the forthcoming USETIM (Use of Search Engine Technologies for Information Management), International Semantic Web Conference and High Performance Interconnects for Distribtued Computing in 2009. I have been serving on the program committees of EDBT 2009 and Supercomputing 2008. I co-authored the book Storage, Data and Information Systems with John Wilkes, et al in 2007. I co-edited Artificial Neural Networks: Concepts and Theory in 1992, co-authored Load Balancing: An Automated Learning Approach in 1995, have filed more than 25 patents, and have published more than 25 technical papers. I have held visiting positions at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NASA Ames Research Center, and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign in 1993, and my B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi in 1986.