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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