Alexandros Labrinidis
Assistant Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
Co-director, Advanced Data Management Technologies Laboratory

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Current Appointments
  • Associate Professor,   Dept of Computer Science,
    School of Arts and Sciences,   University of Pittsburgh
  • Adjunct Associate Professor,   Computer Science Dept,
    School of Computer Science,   Carnegie Mellon University

    • Teaching (Fall 2008)
    CS1699: Special Topics in Computer Science:
    Web 2.0 Principles and Technologies
    tue/thu, 1:00pm - 2:15pm
    CS3550: Advanced Topics in the Management of Data:
    Data Stream Management Systems
    mon/wed, 1:00pm - 2:15pm
    Office Hours: mon/tue/wed/thu, 2:15pm - 3:15pm

    Research Meetings
  • STREAMS:
    		• TBD
  • CMPI:
    		• Wednesdays (4:00pm - 5:30pm)

    Current Service Activities
    		• Editor-in-Chief, ACM SIGMOD Record

    Advisory Board Member:
    		• SSEI NSF IGERT - U. of Maine
    Steering Committee Member:
    		• Data Interoperability Steering Committee (NIAID / NIH)
    		• Workshops: RFDM, DMSN, MobiDE
    Program Committee Member:
    		• ICDE 2009, DMSN 2008, PersDB 2008, VLDB 2008, HDMS 2008, MobiDE 2008.
    University of Pittsburgh:
    		• Co-Chair, Graduate Program and Evaluation Committee
    Selected Recent Publications
    LNCS 4540 GeoSensor Networks: 2nd International Conference, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (buy from amazon.com)
    SSDBM 2008 ViP: A User-Centric View-Based Annotation Framework for Scientific Data
    TODS 2008 Algorithms and Metrics for Processing Multiple Heterogeneous Continuous Queries
    SIGMOD 2007 Quality is in the eye of the beholder: Towards User-Centric Web-Databases (DEMO)
    WebDB 2007 Towards a Content-Provider-Friendly Web Page Crawler
    ICDE 2007 Preference-Aware Query and Update Scheduling for Web-Databases

    News
    Sep 1, 2008: As of today, I am an associate professor!
    Aug 28, 2008: I am giving a tutorial on Scheduling Continuous Queries in Data Stream Management Systems at VLDB 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand, together with Mohamed Sharaf and Panos Chrysanthis. (video of why CQ scheduling is important!).
    Aug 24, 2008: I am an invited panelist at DMSN'08.
    Aug 23, 2008: I am an invited panelist at PersDB'08.
    Aug 15, 2008: The edited post-proceedings of the Second GeoSensor Networks Conference are finally published through Springer, as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4540 (info, contents).
    July 28-29, 2008: Attending the 7th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS) at Heraklio, Crete, Greece.
    July 24, 2008: Mentioned in the University Times newspaper, for receiving an NSF Career award this year.
    July 21, 2008: One of six faculty featured in the official University of Pittsburgh newspaper (Pitt Chronicle), for receiving an NSF Career award this year.
    July 16, 2008: Gave a talk to high-school students participating in the Technology Leadership Institute.   Slides: in pdf (284 KB), as an interactive quicktime movie (7.9 MB), or as an auto-playing quicktime movie (6.8 MB).
    July 9-11, 2008: Attended the 20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM) at Hong Kong.
    July 7, 2008: Gave a talk at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering - HKUST, on User-Centric Data Management.
    June 25, 2008: I receive an NSF Career Award to (continue my) work on User-Centric Data Management.
    June 17-18, 2008: Attended the Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop at Salt Lake City.
    June 9-13, 2008: Attended SIGMOD 2008 at Vancouver.
    May 31, 2008: Attended the Tribute to Honor Jim Gray at UC Berkeley. The Proceedings are published as the June 2008 issue of SIGMOD Record.
    May 15, 2008: Participated in the PhD Dissertation Defense of Mr. Dr. Stavros Papastavrou, at the University of Cyprus.
    May 13, 2008: I got elected to the Computer Usage Committee of the University Senate (for a three-year term 2008-2011).
    May 9, 2008: Gave a talk at the Institute of Computer Science - FORTH, on User-Centric Data Management.
    May 7, 2008: I got promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (effective September 1st, 2008)!
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