a PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Presently I am working with Prof. Sayan Ranu in the AIDB Lab, IIT-M. My current research is focused on searching and optimization on graphs. Prior to joining IIT-M I obtained my Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Computer Science and Automation Department at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India where I worked with Prof. Ambedkar Dukkipati in the area of Information Theory.