Adam Silberstein

Contact Info
Cell: 919-949-9499

• Ph.D. Computer Science, Duke University, May 2007
• B.A. Computer Science, English, Duke University, 2001

• Sensor Network Query Processing
• Native XML Processing
• Distributed Data Caching

• Adam Silberstein, Gavino Puggioni, Alan Gelfand, Kamesh Munagala and Jun Yang. "Making Sense of Suppressions and Failures in Sensor Data: A Bayesian Approach." In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '07), Vienna, Austria, September 2007. [PDF] [slides]

• Adam Silberstein and Jun Yang. "Many-to-Many Aggregation for Sensor Networks." In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '07), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. [PDF] [PDF-full version] [slides]

• 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, January 2007. [PDF] [slides]

• 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, June 2006. [PDF] [slides]

• 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, June 2006. [PDF] [slides]

• 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, April 2006. [PDF] [PDF-full version] [slides]

• Adam Silberstein, Rebecca Braynard and Jun Yang. "Energy-Efficient Continuous Isoline Querying in Sensor Networks." In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '06), Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006. Poster paper. [PDF-short paper] [PDF-poster]

• Adam Silberstein. "Push and Pull in Sensor Network Query Processing." In Southeast Workshop on Data and Information Management (SWDIM '06), Raleigh, North Carolina, March 2006. [PDF]

• Rebecca Braynard, Adam Silberstein and Carla Ellis. "Extending Network Lifetime Using an Automatically Tuned Energy-Aware MAC Protocol." In Proceedings of European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN '06), Zurich, Switzerland, February 2006. [PDF-full version]

• Rebecca Braynard, Adam Silberstein and Carla Ellis. "Wireless MAC-Layer Flexibility via Asynchrony and Asymmetry." In Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '05), Boston, Massachusetts, May 2005. Poster.

• 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. [PDF] [PDF-full version] [slides]

• 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, March 2004. [PS] [PS-full version] [slides]

Fall 2003
CPS 6-Introduction to Program Design and Analysis

Spring 2002
CPS 234-Computational Geometry
CPS 296-Computational Functional Genomics

Fall 2002
CPS 196.3-Introduction to Database Systems
CPS 220-Advanced Computer Architecture

Spring 2003
CPS 216-Advanced Database Systems
CPS 210-Operating Systems

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