Rajesh Bordawekar is a Principal Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. His current interest is exploring software-hardware co-design of analytics workloads. He works at the intersection of high-performance computing, analytics, and data management domains. He has been investigating how GPUs could be used for accelerating key analytics kernels in text analytics, data management, graph analytics, and deep learning. As part of this work, he collaborates closely with the IBM Power Systems, and various analytics and database product teams. He is currently leading a team that is exploring applications of GPUs for accelerating key Spark workloads.