I am teaching CPS 49S: Google: The Computer Science Within and its Impact on Society in Spring 2008.

Research Interests

• Database systems
  • Architectures and algorithms for self-managing database systems
  • Data management for new application domains, e.g., data stream management
• Autonomic computing

Projects

• Ques: Querying and controlling systems
• STREAM: Stanford Stream Data Manager

Awards

• NSF CAREER, 2007-2011
• IBM Faculty Award, 2007
• IBM Faculty Award, 2006

Teaching

• CPS 216: Advanced Database Systems, Fall 2007
• CPS 49S: Google: The Computer Science Within and its Impact on Society, Spring 2007. This class got some press, e.g., the Duke News article and the Duke Magazine article.
• CPS 216: Advanced Database Systems, Fall 2006
• CPS 296.2: Self-Managing Systems, Spring 2006

Recent Publications

• S. Duan and S. Babu. Processing Forecasting Queries
  In Proc. of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), September 2007


• B. Chandramouli, C. Bond, S. Babu, and J. Yang. Query Suspend and Resume
  In Proc. of the 2007 ACM Intl. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD), June 2007


• A. Yumerefendi, P. Shivam, D. Irwin, P. Gunda, L. Grit, A. Demberel, J. Chase, and S. Babu. Towards an Autonomic Computing Testbed
  In Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (HotAC), June 2007


• B. Cook, S. Babu, G. Candea, and S. Duan. Towards Self-Healing Multitier Services
  In Second Intl. Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB), April 2007


• B. Chandramouli, C. Bond, S. Babu, and J. Yang. On Suspending and Resuming Dataflows (poster).
  In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 2007


• P. Shivam, S. Babu, and J. Chase. Active and Accelerated Learning of Cost Models for Optimizing Scientific Applications
  In Proc. of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), September 2006


• P. Shivam, S. Babu, and J. Chase. Active Sampling for Accelerated Learning of Performance Models
  In Proc. of the First Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML), June 2006


• P. Shivam, S. Babu, and J. Chase. Learning Application Models for Utility Resource Planning
  In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), June 2006


• A. Arasu, S. Babu, and J. Widom. The CQL Continuous Query Language: Semantic Foundations and Query Execution
  In the International Journal on Very Large Databases (VLDB Journal), 15:2 121-142, June 2006

Demonstrations

• P. Shivam, A. Demberel, P. Gunda, D. Irwin, L. Grit, A. Yumerefendi, S. Babu, and J. Chase.
  Automated and On-Demand Provisioning of Virtual Machines for Database Applications
  Demonstrated at the 2007 ACM Intl. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007), June 2007


• S. Duan and S. Babu. Proactive Identification of Performance Problems
  Demonstrated at the 2006 ACM Intl. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2006), June 2006


• S. Babu, P. Bizarro, and D. DeWitt. Proactive Re-optimization with Rio
  Demonstrated at the 2005 ACM Intl. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2005), June 2005


• S. Babu and J. Widom. StreaMon: An Adaptive Engine for Stream Query Processing
  Demonstrated at the 2004 ACM Intl. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2004), June 2004


• A. Arasu, B. Babcock, S. Babu, M. Datar, K. Ito, I. Nishizawa, J. Rosenstein, and J. Widom. STREAM: The Stanford Stream Data Manager
  Demonstrated at the 2003 ACM Intl. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2003), June 2003

Software Releases

• STREAM Data Stream Management System
  • Source code is available here
  • Online system demonstration is available here