Alexandros Labrinidis
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

    • Active Research Projects
  • User-Centric Data Management (NSF CAREER)
  • AQSIOS -- Data Streams (NSF)
  • CMPI (NIH)

    • Teaching (Spring 2009)
    no teaching - on sabbatical leave
    Office Hours: office hours by appointment only

    Current Service Activities
    		• Secretary/Treasurer, ACM SIGMOD

    		• 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 Co-Chair:
    		• WebDB 2009
    Program Committee Member:
    		• VLDB 2010, MDM 2010, EDBT 2010, ICDE 2010, HDMS 2009, PersDB 2009, ICDE 2009, DMSN 2008, PersDB 2008, VLDB 2008, HDMS 2008, MobiDE 2008.
    University of Pittsburgh:
    		• Member, Undergraduate Recruiting & Advising Committee (CS Dept)
    		• Co-Chair, Computer Usage Committee, University Senate
    Selected Recent Publications
    SIGMOD 2009 Optimizing I/O-Intensive Transactions in Highly Interactive Applications
    ICDE 2009 Adaptive Scheduling of Web Transactions
    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

    News
    July 1, 2009: I am the newly-elected Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGMOD.
    June 28, 2009: I am attending the SIGMOD 2009 conference (including WebDB, MobiDE).
    April 30, 2009: I am running for Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGMOD.
    April 8, 2009: Visiting ICS-FORTH (DCS Lab) for two months, as part of my sabbatical.
    March 30, 2009: Attending ICDE 2009 in Shanghai, China.
    Feb 27, 2009: Our paper, Optimizing I/O-Intensive Transactions in Highly Interactive Applications, has been accepted to SIGMOD 2009, to be held in Providence, RI (and not Baltimore, despite the acceptance message :-)).
    Jan 20, 2009: change.gov/agenda/technology/ becomes whitehouse.gov/agenda/technology/.
    Jan 12, 2009: Top-25 list of the world's most dangerous coding mistakes published [BBC News]. Now, I'll point to this when I tell the students to never trust user input!
    Dec 9, 2008: I will be the program co-chair of the 12th International Workshop on Web and Databases (WebDB'09), to be held together with the ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2009 conference on June 28, 2009.
    Nov 7, 2008: I came across a very interesting web site: change.gov/agenda/technology/.
    Nov 5, 2008: I am giving a presentation about my Virtual WebDB Laboratory project in the 2008 Teaching Excellence Fair at 10:30am. You can watch my presentation live.
    Oct 21, 2008: I came across the non-partisan AVoteForScience at YouTube -- I particularly liked Ed Lazowska's video.
    Oct 10, 2008: I am quoted in the Pitt News in the story about email blacklisting.
    Oct 1, 2008: Our RFID-based scavenger hunt demo during Computer Science Day 2008 is featured in the Summer 2008 issue of the Pitt Magazine. [link]
    Sep 23, 2008: Our paper, Adaptive Scheduling of Web Transactions, has been accepted to ICDE 2009.
    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.
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