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C. X.
Lin Receives Scholarship (2/16/09) Congratulations to Cindy Xide Lin, who has
received a Microsoft Research Graduate Scholarship.
PhD
Fellowship Opportunities in UIUC-Singapore Program (2/16/09) For the
next several years, the Singapore-UIUC ADSC program is offering 4-year PhD fellowships
to students from any country who will commit to living in Singapore. more
info
DAIS Postdoc
Opportunities in UIUC-Singapore Program (2/16/09) Apply by March 1 to work
with DAIS faculty as a postdoc in the Singapore-UIUC ADSC program. more
info
DAIS
to Participate in UIUC-Singapore Program (2/16/09) DAIS faculty will
participate in the new Advanced Digital Systems Center in Singapore, which
includes travel grants, PhD fellowships, and postdoc fellowships. more info
Midwest
DB Research Symposium Oct 4 @ UIC (8/13/08) This year’s MWDBRS will be held
in UI-Chicago’s new conference facilities on Saturday, October 4. more
info
X. Yin
Receives SIGKDD Dissertation Award (8/13/08) Xiaoxin Yin has received the inaugural
SIGKDD Dissertation Award for his thesis, Scalable
Mining and Link Analysis Across Multiple Database Relations. Xiaoxin
worked with Jiawei Han and is now at Microsoft Research.
D. Cai
Receives Gear Award (8/13/08)
Congratulations to Deng Cai, who has received the 2008 C. W. Gear
Outstanding Student Award for his research.
H.
Gonzalez Receives Outstanding TA Award (8/13/08)
Hector Gonzalez has received an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the
UIUC CS Department.
H. D.
Kim Wins at Computing Habitat Programming Competition (8/13/08)
Hyun Duk Kim and his teammates have won the Best Use of Data Analytics and
Best Web Application and tied for the Most Useful prize in the 2008 Computing
Habitat Programming Competition. Their
application helped create teams for course projects, and was built as part of
the coursework for CS411 (Database Systems).
Kevin
Chang’s Startup Releases First Product (8/13/08) In May, Prof. Chang’s
Cazoodle startup released its apartment search application. Cazoodle showcases data integration
research from Chang’s group.
“Best
of SDM07” Award (2/21/08)
ROAM: Rule- and motif-based anomaly
detection in massive moving object data sets, by X. Li, J. Han, S. Kim,
and H. Gonzalez, was one of four “Best of” papers at the 2007 SIAM Conference
on Data Mining.
Cheng
Zhai Receives Sloan Fellowship (2/19/08)
Congratulations to Cheng Zhai for his selection as a Sloan Fellow for
2008!
Xuanhui
Wang Receives Yahoo! Fellowship (2/19/08)
Xuanhui Wang is one of four US winners of a 2008-9 Yahoo! PhD Student
Fellowship. Xuanhui works with Cheng Zhai on exploratory web search and
web search log mining. Xuanhui joins last year's recipient Qiaozhu Mei.
Cheng
Zhai Receives Gear Award (5/24/07)
Cheng Zhai will receive the Gear Award, which is given annually by the UIUC
Department of Computer Science to recognize an outstanding assistant
professor.
PAKDD07
Best Student Paper Award (5/24/07)
Congratulations to Feida Zhu, Xifeng Yan, Jiawei Han, and Philip Yu, who have
received the Best Student Paper Award at PAKDD 2007 for their paper entitled gPrune:
A Constraint Pushing Framework for Graph Pattern Mining.
X. Yan
Receives SIGMOD Dissertation Award Honorable Mention (4/21/07)
Congratulations to Xifeng Yan, who has received an honorable mention in the
SIGMOD Distinguished Dissertation Award contest for his thesis entitled Mining,
Indexing and Similarity Search in Large Graph Data Sets.
H.
Chen Receives IBM Fellowship (4/10/07)
Congratulations to Hong Chen, who joins Soumyadeb Mitra as a recipient of an
IBM Fellowship for 2007-8.
Q. Mei
Wins Yahoo! PhD Fellowship (4/10/07)
Congratulations to Qiaozhu Mei, who has received a 2-year PhD fellowship from
Yahoo!. more
T.
Cheng Receives Yahoo! Scholarship (4/10/07)
Tao Cheng has received a Key Technical Challenges scholarship from Yahoo!.
Congratulations!
ICDE07
Award to DAIS Members (3/28/07)
ICDE07 has chosen a paper by F. Zhu, X. Yan, J. Han, P. S. Yu, and H. Cheng
as the recipient of its Best Student Paper Award. Congratulations!
S.
Mitra Receives IBM Fellowship (2/15/07)
Congratulations to Soumyadeb Mitra, who will be an IBM Fellow in 2007-8.
DAIS
Group to Graduate 9 PhD Students This Year (12/6/06)
We are pleased to announce the upcoming graduation of 9 PhD students from the
DAIS group (profiled to the right of this column). Please contact us if you
are looking for an excellent new hire for your department!
Zhai at National
Academy of Engineering (12/6/06)
Cheng Zhai was invited to participate in the
National Academy of Engineering’s 2006 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
more
DAIS
in National Academy
of Sciences Proceedings (12/6/06)
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has published Genome
scan for cis-regulatory DNA motifs associated with
social behavior in honey bees, by S. Sinha, X.
Ling, C. Witfield, C. Zhai,
and G. Robinson. more
KDD06
Award to DAIS Members (12/6/06)
KDD06 has chosen a paper by Q. Mei, D. Xin, H.
Cheng, J. Han, and C. Zhai, titled Generating
Semantic Annotations for Frequent Patterns with Context Analysis,
as the runner-up for Best Student Paper.
SDM06
Honors DAIS Members (12/6/06)
Congratulations to H. Liu, J. Han, D. Xin, and Z. Shao, whose paper Mining Interesting Patterns from
Very High Dimensional Data: A Top-Down Row Enumeration Approach was
chosen as one of the four best at the 2006 SIAM Int. Conf. on Data Mining.
Winslett
Becomes ACM Fellow
(12/6/06)
Marianne Winslett has been selected as an ACM Fellow for 2007.
DAIS
Graduates Join Industry, Academia (12/6/06)
Congratulations to our DAIS 2006 PhD graduates, who have moved on to their
new positions: Bin He, Zhenmin Li, and Pin Zhou
(IBM Almaden), Feng Qin
(Ohio State), and Xifeng Yan
(IBM TJ Watson).
DAIS
Members Receive SSS06 Best Paper Award (10/20/06)
Congratulations to Soumyadeb Mitra
and Marianne Winslett, whose paper Secure Deletion from Inverted Indexes
on Compliance Storage has won the best paper award at the 2006 Storage
Security and Survivability Workshop.
Y. Y.
Zhou Now Associate Professor (8/20/06)
Congratulations to YuanYuan Zhou for her promotion
to associate professor this semester!
DAIS
Members Win VLDB06 Best Paper Award (8/20/06)
Congratulations to Soumyadeb Mitra,
Marianne Winslett, and Windsor Hsu of IBM, whose paper Trustworthy Keyword
Search for Regulatory-Compliant Record Retention has won the best paper
award at VLDB 2006.
R. Sinha Receives CSE Fellowship (5/12/06)
Rishi Sinha will receive
a Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship for 2006-7, for his work
on managing scientific data.
Doan
at Wisconsin Next Year (5/10/06)
AnHai Doan has taken a leave of absence to be at
the University
of Wisconsin next year.
Good luck, AnHai!
Midwest
Database Research Symposium to Be Held at UIUC on April 15 (4/6/06)
Please join us at the Siebel
Center for this year's Midwest
Database Research Symposium. Send email to the organizers if
you need overnight accommodations.
DAIS
Students Win ICDE06 Paper Award (4/6/06)
Congratulations to Hector Gonzalez, Jiawei Han, Xiaolei Li, and Diego Klabjan,
whose paper entitled Warehousing and analysis for massive RFID data sets
has won the best student paper award at ICDE06.
X. Ma
Receives NSF CAREER Award (1/24/06)
Recent DAIS graduate Xiaosong Ma, now a professor
at North
Carolina State
University,
has received a 2006 NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations, Xiaosong!
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2008 Midwest
Database Research Symposium will be held on Saturday Oct. 4 at
the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Check
out the UIUC Web Integration Repository created
by Kevin Chang and his students, Bin He, Chengkai
Li, and Zhen Zhang. The repository maintains datasets and tasks for
hundreds of Web databases to facilitate research on large-scale information
integration over the deep Web.
Download
the TrustBuilder2 framework for automated
trust negotiation in distributed systems.
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About Us
Ranked number
6 in the world by US News and World Report, the Database and Information
Systems Laboratory (DAIS) conducts fundamental and cutting-edge research in
databases, data mining, Web mining, information retrieval, and natural
language processing. Current topics include:
- Data integration and schema matching
- Exploring and integrating the Deep Web
- Information security and privacy
- Mining data streams and sequential and
semi-structured data
- OS support for storage systems
- Text retrieval and mining
- Bioinformatics
- Management of scientific data
- Top-k query processing
Graduating Students
We are
pleased to announce that we have nine graduating PhD students in spring
2008. Please contact us if you are
looking for an excellent new hire for your department!
Hong Cheng
(pattern-based
classification and analysis) has joined Hong Kong University.
Hector
Gonzalez (RFID,
traffic, and moving object data warehousing and data mining) has joined
Google Research.
Jing Jiang
(machine
learning for NLP, bioinformatics)
Adam Lee (authorization in
distributed systems) has joined the University of Pittsburgh.
Xiaolei Li (moving object data
mining and multidimensional systems)
Shan Lu (improving the
correctness of concurrent programs)
Soumyadeb
Mitra (compliance
storage) has joined Data Domain, a small storage company.
Rishi
Sinha (management
of scientific data) has joined Microsoft's Applied Research division.
Joe Tucek (system support for
software reliability and security)
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hall or room, as in a banquet room, classroom, etc. 2. The database and
information systems researchers at UIUC.
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