Sudarshan S. Chawathe serves as Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maine. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, and the the B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He is the recipient of the President's Gold Medal from IIT Kanpur and a CAREER award from National Science Foundation. His research interests include semi-structured databases, information integration, streaming query processing, data mining, differencing, change management, XML and the Web, intelligent transportation systems, service-oriented architectures, and peer-to-peer systems.