Students and Teaching

Research Group Members (PhD & Post Doctoral Fellows)

• Bahar Ghadiri Bashardoost, PhD August 2022
  • Knowledge Base Exchange
  • Co-supervised with Kelly Lyons
• Fatemeh Nargesian, PhD June 2019
  • Relational Data Enrichment by Discovery and Transformation
• Erkang (Eric) Zhu, PhD April 2019
  • Search and Join Alborithms for Tables in Data Lakes
• Jiang Du, PhD February 2019
  • Online Physical Design and Materialization in Scalable Data Management
• Patricia (Rodriguez-Gianolli) Arocena PhD March 2013
  • Embracing Incompleteness in Schema Mappings
  • Co-supervised with John Mylopoulos
• Fei Chiang PhD September 2012
  • Data Quality Through Active Constraint Discovery and Maintenance
• Boris Glavic, Post-Doc 2012
• Oktie Hassanzadeh, PhD April 2012
  • Record Linkage over Web Data
• Hojjat Ghaderi, Post-doc 2011
  • Co-supervised with Rick Hull
• Flavio Rizzolo, PhD June 2008
  • DescribeX: A Framework for Exploring and Querying XML Web Collections
  • Co-supervised with Alberto Mendelzon
• Chul (Hyun) Lee, Post-doc 2008
• Yaron Kanza, Post-doc 2007
  • Co-supervisor Alberto Mendelzon
• Ariel Fuxman, PhD December 2006
  • Efficient Query Processing Over Inconsistent Databases
  • ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award 2008.
    The annual ACM SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field.
• Ken Pu, PhD July 2006
  • On Formal Methods of Multidimensional Databases
  • Co-supervised with Alberto Mendelzon
• Anastasios (Tasos) Kementsietsidis, PhD January 2005
  • Data Exchange and Querying in Peer-to-Peer Data Mgmt Systems
  • Co-supervised with John Mylopoulos
• Yannis Velegrakis, PhD December 2004
  • Managing Schemas and Mappings}
  • Co-supervisoed with John Mylopoulos
• Periklis Andritsos, PhD September 2004
  • Scalable Clustering of Categorical Data and Applications

Masters of Science (with thesis) and Bachelors of Engineering (Engineering Science with thesis)

• Erkang (Eric) Zhu, MSc January 2016
  Searching Open Data
• Christina Christodoulakis, MSc January 2015
  New Applications of Recommendations to Data Science
• Erkang (Eric) Zhu, B.Eng thesis 2014
• Natasha Prokoshyna, MSc Februray 2013
  Evaluation Combined Syntactic and Semantic Similarity in Record Matching
• Reynold Xin, B.Eng. thesis April 2010 s
• Jiang Du, MSc September 2009
  Approximate Consistent Query Answering in Probabilistic Databases
• Mohammed Sadoghi, MSc January 2009
  A Framework for Computing the Overlap and Difference of Relational Schemas
• Xheng Zhang, MSc December 2007
  Authorization Views and Contitional Query Containment (co-advisor Alberto Mendelzon)
• Charlotte Vilarem, MSc October 2002
  Approximate Key and Foreign Key Discovery in Relational Databases
• Kiran Chaudhry, MSc October 2001
  Mining for Empty Hyperrectangles by Way of Data Reduction Techniques
• Ivan N. Popivanov, MSc June 2001
  Efficient Similarity Queries Over Time Series Data Using Wavelets
• Theophanis Tsandilas, MSc June 2001
  Rewriting Queries over XML Views
• Periklis Andritsos, MSc July 2000
  Recasting Program Reverse Engineering through On-Line Analytical Processing
• Xin Wang, MSc Januay 2000
  New Applications & Implementation of Higher-Order Queries with Fixed Output Schemas