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

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Current Appointments
  • Assistant Professor,   Department of Computer Science,
    School of Arts and Sciences,   University of Pittsburgh
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor,   Computer Science Dept,
    School of Computer Science,   Carnegie Mellon University
  • Teaching (Spring 2008)
    CS1655: Secure Data Management and Web Applications
    tue/thu, 1:00pm - 2:15pm
    Office Hours: tue/thu, 2:30pm - 4:30pm

    Research Meetings
  • STREAMS:
  • Mondays (11:00am - noon)
  • 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:
  • DMSN 2008, PersDB 2008, VLDB 2008, HDMS 2008, MobiDE 2008, SeNTIE 2008, SSPPS 2008, EDBT 2008, ICDE 2008
    University of Pittsburgh:
  • Co-Chair, Graduate Program and Evaluation Committee
    Selected Recent Publications
    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
    May 31, 2008: Plan to attend the Tribute to Honor Jim Gray at UC Berkeley.
    May 9, 2008: Giving a talk at the Institute of Computer Science - FORTH, on User-Centric Data Management.
    May 5, 2008: The March 2008 issue of SIGMOD Record is published. The June 2008 issue (devoted to the proceedings from the Tribute to Honor Jim Gray) is also coming soon.
    April 24, 2008: I now have an author profile at the ACM Digital Library. (Everybody has one by default, but this is a new feature and it now has my photo too :-)).
    April 17, 2008: I am running for a position in the University Senate Computer Usage Committee.
    April 7-12, 2008: Attending ICDE 2008 in Cancun, Mexico. We have a paper in the SMDB workshop; I am on the steering committee of the RFDM workshop.
    March 19, 2008: The December 2007 issue of SIGMOD Record is published. The March 2008 issue is coming up in April.
    Mar 11, 2007: Our paper, ViP: A User-Centric View-Based Annotation Framework for Scientific Data (Qinglan Li, Alexandros Labrinidis, Panos K. Chrysanthis), has been accepted to the 20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'08).
    Jan 8, 2008: Our participation in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) effort is mentioned in a University Press Release and in the University Times.
    Dec 5-6, 2007: Attending the NSF Biomedical Informatics Workshop in Portland, Oregon.
    Oct 30, 2007: The September 2007 issue of SIGMOD Record is published.
    Oct 11, 2007: My inaugural issue as SIGMOD Record Editor is finally published.
    Oct 1, 2007: My Virtual WebDB Laboratory project is featured in the September 2007 issue of the Teaching Times newsletter.
    Aug 31, 2007: Huiming Qu (whom I advise) successfully defends her PhD dissertation.
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