Amit Pande is a research scientist in Department of Computer Science at university of California Davis working with Prof. Prasant Mohapatra. Prior to that, he completed his PhD from Iowa State University (2010) in Computer Engineering with Dr. Joseph Zambreno and finished his Bachelors in Electronics and Communications Engineering from IIT Roorkee, India (2007). He has been recipient of NSF Computational Innovation Fellowship (2010-12), several Best Paper and Design Contest Awards as well as Research Excellence Awards from UC Davis, Iowa State University and IIT Roorkee. His research interests in data science applications, wireless networks, health informatics, mobile security and hardware acceleration.