Ajit Singh

Professor Ajit Singh is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, affiliated with the Faculty of Engineering. His expertise spans Parallel and Distributed Computing, Database Systems, Network-Centric Computing, and Software Architecture and Design.

Education:

• BSc (BIT, India)
• MPhil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
• MSc and PhD (University of Alberta)

Research & Industrial Work:

• Founded SlipStream Data (acquired by Research in Motion/BlackBerry) to accelerate internet content delivery on low-bandwidth networks.
• Consulted for IBM Canada, Bell Canada, Nortel, and other tech firms.
• Current projects include Energy Efficient Mobile Computing and Processing Data Streams.

Advising & Students:

• Current advisees: Liton Chakraborty, Mohammad Mursalin Akon, Rajesh Palit, Tan Wang.
• Past students include Dhrubajyoti Goswami, Afzal Mawji, and others.

Research Themes:

• Focuses on scalable caching, distributed systems, and energy-efficient computing.
• Explores disk-based optimization for stream joins and parallel architectures.