Jun Yang

Research Interests

• Database systems and information management.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University, September 1995 - August 2001.
  Advisor: Professor Jennifer Widom, Database Group
  Dissertation: Temporal Data Warehousing
  Cumulative GPA: 4.175/4.000
• M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University, September 1995 - September 1998.
  Cumulative GPA: 4.175/4.000
• B.A. in Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, June 1993 - August 1995.
  Graduated with CS Division's Highest Achievement Award
  Cumulative GPA: 4.000/4.000
• San Joaquin Delta College, July 1991 - May 1993.
  Cumulative GPA: 4.000/4.000

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Duke University, July 2008 - present.
• Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Duke University, August 2001 - June 2008.
• Member of Technical Staff, Radik Software, August 2000 - August 2001.
• Software Engineer, ESS Technology, Inc., August 1999 - August 2000.
• Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, September 1995 - August 2000.
• Instructor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Spring 1999.
• Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Spring 1998.
• Research Intern, IBM Almaden Research Center, June 1996 - September 1996.
• Programmer, College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley, June 1994 - August 1995.
• Lab Assistant, UC Berkeley, Computer Science Division, Spring 1994.
• Tutor, San Joaquin Delta College, February 1992 - June 1993.

Publications

1. Badrish Chandramouli and Jun Yang. "End-to-End Support for Joins in Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe Systems." In Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '08), Auckland, New Zealand, August 2008. Acceptance rate: 16.5%.
   Available for download: paper.
2. Badrish Chandramouli, Jun Yang, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Albert Yu, and Ying Zheng. "ProSem: Scalable Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe." In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '08), Vancouver, Canada, June 2008. System demonstration description. Acceptance rate: 31.9%.
   Available for download: paper.
3. Fei Chen, AnHai Doan, Jun Yang, and Raghu Ramakrishnan. "Efficient Information Extraction over Evolving Text Data." In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '08), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008. Acceptance rate: 12.1%.
   Available for download: paper.
4. Junyi Xie, Jun Yang, Yuguo Chen, Haixun Wang, and Philip S. Yu. "A Sampling-Based Approach to Information Recovery." In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '08), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008. Acceptance rate: 19.2%.
   Available for download: paper.
5. Jun Yang, Kamesh Munagala, and Adam Silberstein. "Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks." Chapter in Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Ling Liu and M. Tamer Ozsu, ed. 2008. Invited contribution. To appear.
6. Magdalena Balazinska, Amol Deshpande, Alexandros Labrinidis, Qiong Luo, Samuel Madden, and Jun Yang. "Report on the Fourth International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN 2007)." ACM SIGMOD Record, 36(4):53-55, December 2007.
   Available for download: paper.
7. Magdalena Balazinska, Amol Deshpande, Qiong Luo, and Jun Yang, ed. Proceedings of the 4th International VLDB Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN '07), Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
8. Badrish Chandramouli, Jeff M. Phillips, and Jun Yang. "Value-Based Notification Conditions in Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe Systems." In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '07), Vienna, Austria, September 2007. Acceptance rate: 16.4%.
   Available for download: paper.
9. Adam Silberstein, Gavino Puggioni, Alan Gelfand, Kamesh Munagala, and Jun Yang. "Suppression and Failures in Sensor Networks: A Bayesian Approach." In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '07), Vienna, Austria, September 2007. Acceptance rate: 16.4%.
   Available for download: paper.
10. Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher N. Bond, Shivnath Babu, and Jun Yang. "Query Suspend and Resume." In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '07), Beijing, China, June 2007. Acceptance rate: 14.6%.
    Available for download: paper and technical report.
11. Hao He, Haixun Wang, Jun Yang, and Philip S. Yu. "BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs." In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '07), Beijing, China, June 2007. Acceptance rate: 14.6%.
    Available for download: paper and technical report.
12. Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher N. Bond, Shivnath Babu, and Jun Yang. "On Suspending and Resuming Dataflows." In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '07), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. Poster paper. Acceptance rate: 27.6%. Results in this paper are subsumed by those in the SIGMOD '07 paper titled "Query Suspend and Resume."
13. Adam Silberstein and Jun Yang. "Multiple Aggregation for In-Network Control of Sensors." In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '07), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. Acceptance rate: 18.5%.
    Available for download: paper and technical report.
14. Adam Silberstein, Rebecca Braynard, Gregory Filpus, Gavino Puggioni, Alan Gelfand, Kamesh Munagala, and Jun Yang. "Data-Driven Processing in Sensor Networks." In Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR '07), Asilomar, California, USA, January 2007. Acceptance rate: unknown.
    Available for download: paper.
15. Pankaj K. Agarwal, Junyi Xie, Jun Yang, and Hai Yu. "Scalable Continuous Query Processing by Tracking Hotspots." In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '06), Seoul, Korea, September 2006. Acceptance rate: 13.8%.
    Available for download: paper and technical report.
16. Badrish Chandramouli, Junyi Xie, and Jun Yang. "On the Database/Network Interface in Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe Systems." In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '06), Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 2006. Acceptance rate: 13.0%.
    Available for download: paper and technical report.
17. Adam Silberstein, Rebecca Braynard, and Jun Yang. "Constraint-Chaining: On Energy-Efficient Continuous Monitoring in Sensor Networks." In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '06), Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 2006. Acceptance rate: 13.0%.
    Available for download: paper.
18. Adam Silberstein, Kamesh Munagala, and Jun Yang. "Energy-Efficient Monitoring of Extreme Values in Sensor Networks." In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '06), Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 2006. Acceptance rate: 13.0%.
    Available for download: paper.
19. Junyi Xie and Jun Yang. "A Survey of Join Processing in Data Streams." Chapter in Data Streams: Models and Algorithms. Charu Aggarwal, ed. Springer. 2006. Invited contribution.
    Available for download: chapter.
20. Paul G. Flikkema, Pankaj K. Agarwal, James S. Clark, Carla Schlatter Ellis, Alan Gelfand, Kamesh Munagala, and Jun Yang. "Model-Driven Dynamic Control of Embedded Wireless Sensor Networks." In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS '06), Reading, United Kingdom, May 2006. Acceptance rate: unknown.
21. Badrish Chandramouli, Jun Yang, and Amin Vahdat. "Distributed Network Querying with Bounded Approximate Caching." In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA '06), Singapore, April 2006. Acceptance rate: 24.5%.
    Available for download: paper and technical report.
22. Adam Silberstein, Rebecca Braynard, Carla Ellis, Kamesh Munagala, and Jun Yang. "A Sampling-Based Approach to Optimizing Top-k Queries in Sensor Networks." In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '06), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2006. Acceptance rate: 19.5%.
    Available for download: paper.
23. Haixun Wang, Hao He, Jun Yang, Philip S. Yu, and Jeffrey Xu Yu. "Dual Labeling: Answering Graph Reachability Queries in Constant Time." In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '06), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2006. Acceptance rate: 19.5%.
    Available for download: paper.
24. Adam Silberstein, Rebecca Braynard, and Jun Yang. "Energy-Efficient Continuous Isoline Queries in Sensor Networks." In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '06), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2006. Poster paper. Acceptance rate: 31.1%. Results in this paper are subsumed by those in the SIGMOD '06 paper titled "Constraint-Chaining: On Energy-Efficient Continuous Monitoring in Sensor Networks."
    Available for download: paper.
25. Pankaj K. Agarwal, Junyi Xie, Jun Yang, and Hai Yu. "Monitoring Continuous Band-Join Queries over Dynamic Data." In Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC '05), Sanya, Hainan, China, December 2005. Acceptance rate: unknown.
    Available for download: paper.
26. Hao He, Haixun Wang, Jun Yang, and Philip S. Yu. "Compact Reachability Labeling for Graph-Structured Data." In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '05), Bremen, Germany, November 2005. Acceptance rate: 17.9%.
    Available for download: paper and full version.
27. Kamesh Munagala, Jun Yang, and Hai Yu. "Online View Maintenance Under a Response-Time Constraint." In Proceedings of the 13th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA '05), Mallorca, Spain, October 2005. Acceptance rate: unknown.
    Available for download: paper.
28. Wenfei Fan, Zhaohui Wu, and Jun Yang, ed. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM '05), Hangzhou, China, October 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3739. Springer. ISBN: 3-540-29227-6.
29. Junyi Xie, Jun Yang, and Yuguo Chen. "On Joining and Caching Stochastic Streams." In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '05), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 2005. Acceptance rate: 15.1%.
    Available for download: paper and technical report.
30. Adam Silberstein, Hao He, Ke Yi, and Jun Yang. "BOXes: Efficient Maintenance of Order-Based Labeling for Dynamic XML Data." In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '05), Tokyo, Japan, April 2005. Acceptance rate: 12.9%.
    Available for download: paper and full version.
31. Hao He, Junyi Xie, Jun Yang, and Hai Yu. "Asymmetric Batch Incremental View Maintenance." In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '05), Tokyo, Japan, April 2005. Acceptance rate: 12.9%.
    Available for download: paper.
32. Junfei Geng and Jun Yang. "AutoBib: Automatic Extraction of Bibliographic Information on the Web." In Proceedings of the 8th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS '04), Coimbra, Portugal, July 2004. Acceptance rate: unknown.
    Available for download: paper.
33. Ke Yi, Hao He, Ioana Stanoi, and Jun Yang. "Incremental Maintenance of XML Structural Indexes." In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '04), Paris, France, June 2004. Acceptance rate: 16.0%.
    Available for download: paper.
34. Hao He and Jun Yang. "Multiresolution Indexing of XML for Frequent Queries." In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '04), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, March 2004. Acceptance rate: 14.3%.
    Available for download: paper and full version.
35. Adam Silberstein and Jun Yang. "NeXSort: Sorting XML in External Memory." In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '04), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, March 2004. Acceptance rate: 14.3%.
    Available for download: paper and full version.
36. Pankaj K. Agarwal, Lars Arge, Jun Yang, and Ke Yi. "I/O-Efficient Structures for Orthogonal Range Max and Stabbing Max Queries." In Proceedings of the 11th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA '03), Budapest, Hungary, September 2003. Acceptance rate: unknown.
    Available for download: paper and full version.
37. Ke Yi, Hai Yu, Jun Yang, Gangqiang Xia, and Yuguo Chen. "Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Top-k Views." In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '03), Bangalore, India, March 2003. Acceptance rate: 13.5%.
    Available for download: paper and full version.
38. Jun Yang and Jennifer Widom. "Incremental Computation and Maintenance of Temporal Aggregates." International Journal on Very Large Databases (VLDB Journal), 12(3):262-283, October 2003. This paper is an extended version of the ICDE '01 paper.
    Available for download: paper.
39. Zhiyuan Chen, Chen Li, Jian Pei, Yufei Tao, Haixun Wang, Wei Wang, Jiong Yang, Jun Yang, and Donghui Zhang. "Recent Progress on Selected Topics in Database Research: A Report from Nine Young Chinese Researchers Working in the United States." Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 18(5):538-552, September 2003.
    Available for download: paper.
40. Andy Huang, Qiang Xue, and Jun Yang. "TupleRank and Implicit Relationship Discovery in Databases." In Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM '03), Chengdu, China, August 2003. Acceptance rate: 11.6%.
    Available for download: paper and full version.
41. Jun Yang. "Temporal Data Warehousing." Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, August 2001.
    Available for download: paper.
42. Jun Yang and Jennifer Widom. "Incremental Computation and Maintenance of Temporal Aggregates." In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '01), Heidelberg, Germany, April 2001. Acceptance rate: 14%.
    Available for download: abstract and paper.
43. Wilburt Juan Labio, Jun Yang, Yingwei Cui, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Jennifer Widom. "Performance Issues in Incremental Warehouse Maintenance." In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '00), Cairo, Egypt, September 2000. Acceptance rate: 15.1%.
    Available for download: paper and full version.
44. Jun Yang, Huacheng C. Ying, and Jennifer Widom. "TIP: A Temporal Extension to Informix." In Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '00), Dallas, Texas, USA, May 2000. System demonstration description. Acceptance rate: unknown. An earlier version appeared in EDBT '00.
    Available for download: paper and full version.
45. Jun Yang and Jennifer Widom. "Temporal View Self-Maintenance." In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT '00), Konstanz, Germany, March 2000. Acceptance rate: 16.7%.
    Available for download: abstract, paper, and full version.
46. Jun Yang, Huacheng C. Ying, and Jennifer Widom. "TIP: A Temporal Extension to Informix." In Demonstration Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT '00), Konstanz, Germany, March 2000. System demonstration description. Acceptance rate: unknown. A newer version appeared in SIGMOD '00.
    Available for download: paper and full version.
47. Hector Garcia-Molina, Wilburt Juan Labio, and Jun Yang. "Expiring Data in a Warehouse." In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '98), New York City, New York, USA, August 1998. Acceptance rate: 16%.
    Available for download: paper.
48. Jun Yang and Jennifer Widom. "Maintaining Temporal Views Over Non-Temporal Information Sources For Data Warehousing." In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT '98), Valencia, Spain, March 1998. Acceptance rate: 16.8%.
    Available for download: abstract, paper, full version, and slides.
49. Laura Haas, Donald Kossmann, Edward Wimmers, and Jun Yang. "Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources." In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '97), Athens, Greece, August 1997. Acceptance rate: 16%.
    Available for download: paper.
50. Laura Haas, Donald Kossmann, Edward Wimmers, and Jun Yang. "An Optimizer for Heterogeneous Systems with Non-Standard Data and Search Capabilities." IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin (Data Engineering Bulletin), 19(4):37-43, December 1996.
    Available for download: paper.
51. Steve G. Steinberg, Jun Yang, and Katherine Yelick. "Performance Modeling and Composition: A Case Study in Cell Simulation." In Proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS '96), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1996. Acceptance rate: 35%.
    Available for download: abstract, paper, and slides.

• Kevin A. Walsh, Amin Vahdat, and Jun Yang. "Enabling Wide-Area Replication of Database Services with Continuous Consistency." Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, February 2002.
  Available for download: paper.
• Jun Yang, Jennifer Widom, and Paul Brown. "Implementing Parameterized Range Types in an Extensible DBMS." Technical Report, Stanford University, November 2000.
  Available for download: paper.

Funding

• Principal investigator. CAREER: Techniques and Applications of Derived Data Maintenance. NSF CAREER Program. September 2003.
• Principal investigator. III-COR: Scalable Publish/Subscribe: Unifying Data Processing and Dissemination. NSF IIS Division. September 2007. With Pankaj K. Agarwal.
• Co-investigator. Multiscale Integrative Immunology for Adjuvant Development. NIH-NIAID-DAIT-BAA-05-10. September 2005. With Thomas B. Kepler and others.
• Co-investigator. Integration of IBM Management Software with Campus Blade Clusters in Support of Duke Academic Infrastructure. IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Program. June 2006. With Richard Lucic and others.
• Co-investigator. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DDDAS-TMRP: Dynamic Sensor Networks---Enabling the Measurement, Modeling, and Prediction of Biophysical Change in a Landscape. NSF CNS DDDAS Program. January 2006. With James S. Clark and others.
• Co-investigator. Supplemental Award for COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DDDAS-TMRP: Dynamic Sensor Networks---Enabling the Measurement, Modeling, and Prediction of Biophysical Change in a Landscape. NSF REU Program. July 2006. With James S. Clark and others.
• Co-investigator. Doctoral Program in Management and Analysis of Large Data Acquired from Sensors. Department of Education GAANN Program. May 2007. With Pankaj K. Agarwal and others.

• Co-investigator. A Systems Biology Approach to Infectious Diseases Research. NIH-NIAID-DMID-08-22. December 2007. With Thomas B. Kepler and others.

• Principal investigator. Supplemental Award for CAREER: Techniques and Applications of Derived Data Maintenance. NSF REU Program. June 2006.

Honors and Awards

• IBM Faculty Award, January 2006.
• Recognized for excellence in teaching by Teaching Excellence Committee, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, January 2004.
• NSF CAREER Award, September 2003.
• Highest Achievement Award, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley, May 1995.
• UC Berkeley Chancellor's Scholarship, 1993 - 1995.
• Dean's Honor List For Top 4% Students, UC Berkeley, February 1994, July 1994, and February 1995.
• Chinese-American Institute of Engineers And Scientists Scholarship, June 1994.
• Chuck Miller Scholarship, February 1994.
• National Individual Champion of Mathematics Competition of American Math Association of Two-Year Colleges, 1991 - 1992 and 1992 - 1993.
• Outstanding Student's Honor, Delta College Academic Senate, April 1993.
• California Math Council of Community Colleges Scholarship, 1993 and 1994.
• Delta College Foundation Scholarship, Memorial Scholarship, Academic Excellence Scholarship, etc., 1993.
• First Prizes, National Math Competition of Chinese High Schools, 1989 and 1990.
• First Prizes, Computer Programming Contest of Chengdu, China, 1988, 1989, and 1990.

External Presentations and Demonstrations

• "Thoughts on Data Sharing: A Database Researcher's Perspective," presentation at the Primate Life History Working Group Meeting, NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center), August 2007.
• "Query Suspend and Resume," presentation at SIGMOD '07, June 2007.
• "Data-Driven Processing in Sensor Networks," seminars at University of Pennsylvania, University of Waterloo, and New England Database Society, April 2007 - October 2007.
• "Scalable Continuous Query Processing and Result Dissemination," seminars at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, University of Maryland at College Park, University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University Joint Database Seminar, Brown University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of California at Berkeley, February 2006 - December 2006.
• "Continuous Query Processing over Networked Data," presentation at IBM Research Triangle Park University Day, October 2006.
• Panel discussion at SIGMOD '06 Life after Graduation Symposium, June 2006.
• "Scalable Continuous Query Processing and Result Dissemination," talk at SEWDIM '06, March 2006.
• "Querying Networked Data," presentation at IBM Research Triangle Park University Day, October 2005.
• "An Overview of Database Research at Duke," presentation at inDuke Meeting, Duke University, May 2005.
• "Caching for Network Querying," presentation at SIGMOD '05 Program Committee Workshop, Stanford, California, February 2005.
• "Layers and Boxes: Efficient and Maintainable Indexes for XML," seminar at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, July 2004.
• "AutoBib: Automatic Extraction of Bibliographic Information on the Web," presentation at IDEAS '04.
• "Post-Web-Age Information Management," panel discussion at WAIM '03.
• "TupleRank and Implicit Relationship Discovery in Databases," presentation at WAIM '03.
• "Problems in Database View Maintenance and Web Data Extraction," seminar at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, April 2003.
• "Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Top-k Views," presentation at ICDE '03.
• "Incremental Computation and Maintenance of Temporal Aggregates," presentation at ICDE '01.
• "Query Processing in Kidar," guest lecture for a course on database system implementation at Stanford University, Stanford, California, November 2000.
• "Performance Issues in Incremental Warehouse Maintenance," presentation at VLDB '00.
• "TIP: A Temporal Extension to Informix," system demonstration at SIGMOD '00.
• "Temporal Data Warehousing," colloquia at Brown University, Cornell University, Duke University, Harvard University, Santa Clara University, State University of New York at Stony Brook, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Southern California, Yale University, and IBM Almaden Research Center, February 2000 - May 2000.
• "TIP: A Temporal Extension to Informix," presentation and system demonstration at Stanford Database Workshop, Stanford, California, March 2000.
• "TIP: A Temporal Extension to Informix," presentation and system demonstration at Informix Corporation, Oakland, California, March 2000.
• "Temporal View Self-Maintenance," presentation at EDBT '00.
• "TIP: A Temporal Extension to Informix," system demonstration at EDBT '00.
• "Maintaining Temporal Views Over Non-Temporal Information Sources For Data Warehousing," presentation at EDBT '98.
• "Performance Modeling and Composition: A Case Study in Cell Simulation," presentation at IPPS '96.

Teaching

• CPS 116, formerly CPS 196.3 (Duke University): Introduction to Database Systems. Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, and Fall 2007.
• CPS 216 (Duke University): Advanced Database Systems. Fall 2001, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, and Spring 2005.
• CPS 296.1 (Duke University): Topics in Database Systems. Spring 2002.
• CPS 296.1 (Duke University): Sensor Data Processing. Spring 2007.
• CPS 296.4 (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, cross-listed at Duke, North Carolina State, and UNC Chapel Hill): Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring. Fall 2007.
• CS 399.28 (Duke University): Research Seminar and Project in Databases. Spring 2008.

Student Advising

• Risi Thonangi (Rishi).
• Yi Zhang.
  • Ph.D. research initiation project: Failure-Aware Spatial Suppression in Sensor Networks. 2007.
• Ying Zheng.

• Badrish Chandramouli. First employment: Microsoft Research.
  • Ph.D. dissertation defense: Unifying Databases and Internet-Scale Publish/Subscribe. July 2008.
  • Ph.D. preliminary exam: Supporting Better Scalability and Richer Subscription Models in Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe. Summer 2006.
  • Ph.D. research initiation project: Distributed Network Querying: Reducing Costs by Providing Approximate Answers. 2004. Duke CS Outstanding PhD Research Initiation Project Award.
• Junyi Xie. First employment: Oracle Corp.
  • Ph.D. dissertation defense: Handling Resource Constraints and Scalability in Continuous Query Processing. September 2007.
  • Ph.D. preliminary exam: Optimizing Continuous Queries Over Data Streams. Fall 2004.
  • Ph.D. research initiation project: Building DRAM-Based High Performance Intermediate Memory Systems. 2002. (Served as committee member, not as primary advisor.)
• Hao He. IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, 2006-2007; first employment: Google Inc.
  • Ph.D. dissertation defense: Query Processing and Indexing Techniques on Semi-Structured Data. July 2007.
  • Ph.D. preliminary exam: Query Processing and Indexing Techniques on Graph-Structured Data. Spring 2006.
  • Ph.D. research initiation project: A Workload-Aware Update-Efficient Index for XML. 2003.
• Adam Silberstein. First employment: Yahoo! Research.
  • Ph.D. dissertation defense: Query Processing Methods for Wireless Sensor Networks. February 2007.
  • Ph.D. preliminary exam: Query Processing and Optimization in Sensor Networks. Spring 2005.
  • Ph.D. research initiation project: Sorting XML in External Memory. 2004.

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

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

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

• Fareed Zaffar. Foresight: Countering Malware Through Cooperative Forensics Sharing. Summer 2008.
• Joseph Volpe. Mechanistic and Genetic Biases in Human Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Development. Spring 2008.
• Laura Grit. Extensible Resource Management for Networked Virtual Computing. Fall 2007.
• Dazhi Wang. Service Reliability: Models, Algorithms and Applications. Summer 2007.
• Angela Dalton. Data Fidelity Mechanisms for Enhancing Energy Management in Context-Aware Systems. Fall 2006.
• Ke Yi. I/O Efficient Algorithms for Processing Massive Spatial Data. Summer 2006.
• Hai Yu. Geometric Algorithms for Time-Varying Data. Summer 2006.
• Rebecca Braynard. Wireless MAC Layer Flexibility for Extending Effective System Lifetime. Spring 2006.
• Justin Moore. Automated Cost-Aware Data Center Management. Spring 2006.
• Patrick Reynolds. Using Causal Paths to Improve Performance and Correctness in Distributed Systems. Spring 2006.
• Dejan Kostic. High Bandwidth Data Dissemination for Large-Scale Distributed Systems. Summer 2005.
• Yun Fu. Resource Allocation for Global-Scale Network Services. Fall 2004.
• Sathish Govindarajan. Spatial Data Structures and Algorithms for Large Scale Applications. Fall 2004.
• Lipyeow Lim. Online Methods for Database Optimization. Fall 2004.
• Rajiv Wickremesinghe. Methods and Models for Data-Intensive Computing. Fall 2004.
• Heng Zeng. Explicit Energy Resource Management as a First Class Operating System Resource. Spring 2004.
• Ronald P. Doyle. Model-Based Adaptive Resource Provisioning in a Web Service Utility. Fall 2003.

• Anita Lungu. Verification-Aware Processor Design. Spring 2007.
• Aydan Jumerefendi. System Support for Strong Accountability. Fall 2006.
• Joseph Volpe. Investigation of the IgH Locus and Analysis of the Antigen Receptors That It Forms. Fall 2005. Bioinformatics and Genome Technology.
• Dazhi Wang. Service Availability Modeling. Spring 2005.
• Rebecca Braynard. Asynchronous and Asymmetric Communication for Balancing Energy Consumption in Sensor Networks. Fall 2004.
• Justin Moore. Balancing Site Goals and Service Goals in Datacenter Management. Fall 2004.
• Ke Yi. Index Structures for Large Databases: Theory and Practice. Spring 2004.
• Dejan Kostic. High Bandwidth Data Dissemination for Large-Scale Distributed Systems. Fall 2003.
• Patrick Reynolds. Measurement and Causality in Black-Box Distributed Systems. Fall 2003.
• Lipyeow Lim. Online Methods for Database Optimization. Spring 2003.
• Yun Fu. Resource Allocation for Global-Scale Network Services. Fall 2002.
• Sathish Govindarajan. Handling Large Spatial Data: Approximation and Data Structures. Summer 2002.
• Rajiv Wickremesinghe. Data Intensive Computation in a Compute/Storage Hierarchy. Spring 2002.
• Ronald P. Doyle. Internet Service Delivery Architecture: Implications of the Resource Grid Model. Fall 2001.

• Albert Yu. Network Design for Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe. 2008.
• Songyun Duan. Proactive Performance Problem Identification and Diagnosis. 2006.
• Kuan-Ming Liu. Predicting Protein Functions by Integrating Biological Database from Multiple Knowledge Domains. 2006.
• Anita Lungu. Integrating Biological Information Across Domains. 2006.
• Sita Badrish. Energy-Efficient Handling of Disk Accesses. 2004.
• Aydan Jumerefendi. Trust But Verify: Accountability for Internet Services. 2004.
• Haoying Li. Global Maximum Stereo Matching. 2004.
• Piyush Shivam. Distributed Data Staging for Performability. 2004.
• Kashi Vishwanath. Scalability Issues in ModelNet. 2003.
• Danxia Xie. Distributed Synthetic Energy Management for Sensor Networks. 2003.
• Ke Yi. External Memory Orthogonal Range and Stabbing Aggregate Queries on Semigroups. 2003.
• Hai Yu. Kinetic Fair-Split Trees and Proximity Problems. 2003.
• Junyi Xie. Building DRAM-Based High Performance Intermediate Memory Systems. 2002.

• Kuan-Ming Liu. Combining Feature Selection Strategies with Bayesian Learning Models to Categorize Gene Expression Profiles. Summer 2008.
• Yuqing Pan (Gary). Wireless Pulse Oximeter Sensor Project. Spring 2008. Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Jennifer Burge. Trading Information for Energy in Sensor Networks. Fall 2007.
• Sita Badrish. Energy Efficient Handling of Disk Accesses Using Economic Models. Fall 2005.
• Haoying Li. Just-in-Time Constraints for Dynamic-Programming Stereo. Summer 2005.

• Katherine Trushkowsky. CoBib: An Architecture for a Collaborative Database. Spring 2007. Graduated with High Distinction.
• Sanjay Ginde, David Goldberg, and Chris Zeiders. OogP2P Framework. 2004.

Activities

• Review Board, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, August 2008 - present.
• Program Committee, SIGMOD '09.
• Regional Chair (America), DASFAA '09.
• Program Committee, WWW '09.
• Program Committee, DBRank '09.
• Program Committee, ICDE '09.
• Program Committee, CIDR '09.
• General Co-Chair and Program Committee Member, DMSN '08.
• Program Committee, CIKM '08.
• Program Committee, MOBIDE '08.
• Program Committee, WAIM '08.
• Program Committee, CSE '08.
• Program Committee, SSPS '08.
• Program Committee, VLDB '08.
• Program Committee, SIGMOD '08.
• Program Committee, ICDE '08.
• Program Committee Co-Chair, DMSN '07.
• Demonstration Program Committee, VLDB '07.
• Program Committee, INFOSCALE '07.
• Program Committee, SSTD '07.
• Program Committee, APWeb/WAIM '07.
• Program Committee, SIGMOD '07.
• Program Committee, SIGMOD '07 Ph.D. Workshop on Innovative Database Research.
• Program Committee, NetDB '07.
• Program Committee, SSPS '07.
• Program Committee, ICDE '07.
• Program Committee, CIKM '06.
• Program Committee, GSN '06.
• Program Committee, DMSN '06.
• Program Committee, XSYM '06.
• Program Committee, VLDB '06 Ph.D. Workshop.
• Program Committee Co-Chair, SEWDIM '06.
• Program Committee, WAIM '06.
• Program Committee, ICDM '05.
• Program Committee, WIDM '05.
• Program Committee, SIGMOD '05.
• Program Committee, XSYM '05.
• Program Committee, VLDB '05 Ph.D. Workshop.
• Program Committee, DASFAA '05.
• Publications Chair, WAIM '05.
• Program Committee, ICDM '04.
• Program Committee, VLDB '04.
• Program Committee, KDD '04.
• Demonstration Program Committee, SIGMOD '04.
• Panelist for NSF, IIS Division, 2003, 2004, 2005.
• Panelist for Department of Homeland Security, 2006.
• Reviewer for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2008.
• Reviewer for Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, 2006.
• Associate Information Director, ACM SIGMOD, 2003 - present.
• Started Carolina Database Research Group (CDB) in 2003 with a group of database researchers in North Carolina and continue to be one of the main organizers.
• Publicity Chair, MDM '04.
• Reviewers for journals: TODS, VLDB Journal, TKDE, ACM SIGMOD Record, Computer Journal, Information and Computation, IPL, DKE, Information and Software Technology, Journal of Systems and Software, KAIS, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, LNCS Journal on Data Semantics, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Journal.
• Reviewers for conferences: SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, PODS, WWW, CIKM, WebDB, STACS, ESA, ICDCS, MOBISYS, USENIX, SPAA.
• Designer of the ACM SIGMOD logo, SIGMOD Anthology logo, SIGMOD Digital Review logo, Stanford InfoLab logo, Stanford Database Group logo, Carolina Database Research Group (CDB) logo, Duke Database Research Group logo.

• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, July 2008 - present.
• Chair of Graduate Recruiting/Admissions Committee, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, 2007 - 2008.
• Member of Faculty Search Committee, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, 2001 - 2005 and 2006 - 2007.
• Member of the inDuke Steering Committee, Department of Computer Science and School of Engineering, Duke University, 2005 - present.
• Member of Communications Committee, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, 2005 - present.
• Member of Lab Committee, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, 2006 - present.
• Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series Chair, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, 2002 - 2007.
• Colloquium Chair, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, 2002 - 2003 and 2004 - 2007.
• Member of Ph.D. Admissions Committee, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, 2001 - 2002, 2004 - 2005, and 2005 - 2006.

• Member of UC Berkeley Putnam Math Competition Team, 1993 - 1994.
• Member of UC Berkeley Regents' and Chancellor's Scholars Association, 1993 - 1995.