Current Ph.D. Students

• Risi Thonangi (Rishi). 2008 - present.
• Ying Zheng. 2008 - present.
• Yi Zhang. 2007 - present.

Graduated Ph.D. Students

• Badrish Chandramouli. Better Scalability and Richer Subscription Models in Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe. July 2008. First employment: Microsoft Research.
• Junyi Xie. Handling Resource Constraints and Scalability in Continuous Query Processing. September 2007. First employment: Oracle Corp.
• Hao He. Query Processing and Indexing Techniques on Semi-Structured Data. July 2007. IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, 2006-2007; first employment: Google Inc.
• Adam Silberstein. Query Processing Methods for Wireless Sensor Networks. February 2007. First employment: Yahoo! Research.

Ph.D. Research Initiation Projects

• Yi Zhang. Failure-Aware Spatial Suppression in Sensor Networks. 2007 - 2008.
• Badrish Chandramouli. Distributed Network Querying: Reducing Costs by Providing Approximate Answers. 2003 - 2004. Duke CS Outstanding PhD Research Initiation Project Award.
• Adam Silberstein. Sorting XML in External Memory. 2003 - 2004.
• Hao He. A Workload-Aware Update-Efficient Index for XML. 2002 - 2003.

Ph.D. Preliminary Exams

• Badrish Chandramouli. Supporting Better Scalability and Richer Subscription Models in Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe. Summer 2006.
• Hao He. Query Processing and Indexing Techniques on Graph-Structured Data. Spring 2006.
• Adam Silberstein. Query Processing and Optimization in Sensor Networks. Spring 2005.
• Junyi Xie. Optimizing Continuous Queries Over Data Streams. Fall 2004.

M.S. Students

• Pradeep K. Gunda. Scalable Lineage Tracking in Workflows. Summer 2006 - Fall 2007.
• Wenbin Pan. On Author Name Disambiguation in Citation Databases. Fall 2004 - Fall 2004.
• Junfei Geng. Automatic Extraction and Integration of Bibliographic Information on the Web Using Hidden Markov Models. Fall 2001 - Spring 2003.
• Xiao F. Huang (Andy). TupleRank and Implicit Relationship Discovery in Databases. Fall 2001 - Spring 2003.
• Zhihui Wang. Multiple-View Maintenance with Semantic Caching. Fall 2002 - Summer 2003.
• Jing Zhang. Implementing a File System on Top of a DBMS. Fall 2001 - Summer 2003.
• Parag G. Palekar. Analysis of an Incremental Algorithm for Mining Frequent Itemsets. Fall 2001 - Fall 2002.

Undergraduate Students

• Tyler Brock. Amboseli Baboon Research Ranker. Spring 2007. Graduated with Distinction.
• Christopher N. Bond. Query Suspend and Resume. Spring 2005. Graduated with High Distinction.

Undergraduate Summer Research Interns

• Gregory Filpus. Suppression Schemes for Sensor Data Collection. Summer 2006.
• Congyi Wu. Tracking Lineage for Computational Workflows. Summer 2006.