Rahul Tikekar

Rahul Tikekar is associate professor (teaching track) in the Department of Computer Science. Before joining George Mason University, he worked for the research division at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) where he was involved in several initiatives that used advanced technology for solving problems in tax administration. Before that, he was a tenured associate professor of computer science at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. He is a tech enthusiast who, during his spare time, works as a mentor to high school students in their quest to build and program robots.

Degrees

• PhD, Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

• MS, Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

• BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India

Research/Teaching Interests

• Databases

• Graph Analytics