Shreya Shankar
shreyashankar@cmu.edu
Department
Computer Science Department
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department and, by courtesy, the Human Computer Interaction Institute. I am in the CMU Database group. I received my PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley, where I worked with Aditya Parameswaran and built [DocETL](https://www.docetl.org/), an open source stack for AI-powered data processing. My collaborators and I received several paper awards for this line of work, including Best of SIGMOD 2026, Best Paper at CHI 2026, and Best Paper Honorable Mention at UIST 2025. In a past non-academic life, I worked as a machine learning engineer, and I received my undergraduate degree in computer science from Stanford.
Research Statement
My research lies at the intersection of databases, artificial intelligence, and human computer interaction. My goal is to bring AI into databases and business intelligence (BI) tools, for anyone and everyone to use. I am also broadly interested in human-AI interaction, and how this feeds into how we should build computer systems. My group takes a user-centered and full-stack approach: we talk to people and build open-source data systems and user interfaces.