Our daughter, Nidhi Parekh, was born on May 24, 2005.
In October 2004, I joined the Strategic Data Research team at Yahoo! and am working on data mining and analytics related projects.
On July 14 2003, Vaidehi and
I welcomed our son, Jash Parekh, to this world.
From June 2000 to October 2004, I worked with the Datamining Group at Blue Martini Software in California.
In Nov 1999, I married a
demure artist, Vaidehi Shah, from Ahmedabad in India. Vaidehi does oil on canvass paintings and specializes in Indian folk culture and Indian mythology. Here is a preview of Vaidehi's art work.
From Feb 1998 to June 2000,
I was a Senior Research Associate with the Datamining Group at the Allstate
Research and Planning Center in California.
I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Iowa State University in 1998.
I graduated with B.E. in Computer
Technology from Victoria Jubilee Technical Institiute in 1991.
Allstate
Helping Hands Committee, Allstate
India
Student Association, Iowa State University (ISA).
The Society for
Indian Trandition and Arts, Iowa State University (SiTaR).
The India Literacy
Focus Group, Iowa State University (LFG).
Computer Science Department
Colloquium Committee, Iowa State University
Family
| These days I spend most of my time outside of work with my family - Vaidehi, Jash, and Nidhi |
Reading
| Philosophy, Religion, Sports, and Autobiographies |
Quotations
| I love to collect inspiring quotations |
Travelling
| Seeing new and interesting places and going for long walks |
Sports
| Cricket, Tennis, Swimming. |
| TEL: 650.793.0243 |
| e-mail: rparekh_AT_ieee.org |
| URL: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~parekh |