·   Annotation Management for Scientific Data

·   User-centric Web-databases (Quality of Service, Quality of Data)

·   I am an experienced software engineer, researcher, and technical communicator. My objective is to work on advanced R&D projects.

·   Dissertation: A User-centric Annotation Framework for Scientific Data, Dec 2008 (exp).

·   My advisors are Dr. Alexandros Labrinidis and Dr. Panos Kypros Chrysanthis.

·   I'm a member of Advanced Data Management Technologies Group at University of Pittsburgh, Department of Computer Science.

·   CMPI: the Center for Modeling Pulmonary Immunity  (NIH) [1] [2]

·   Secure CITI: A Secure Critical Information Technology Infrastructure for Disaster Management (NSF) [3] [4] [5]

[1]   Q. Li, A. Labrinidis, and P. K. Chrysanthis. “ViP: a User-centric View-based Annotation Framework for Scientific Data”, Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'08), 295-312, Hong Kong, China, July 2008. [pdf]

[2]   Q. Li, A. Labrinidis, and P. K. Chrysanthis. “User-centric Annotation Management for Biological Data”, Proc. of the Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW'08), 1-8, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2008. [pdf] [poster]

[3]   J. Xu, Q. Li, H. Qu, and A. Labrinidis. “Towards a Content-Provider-Friendly Web Page Crawler”, Proc. of the Tenth International ACM Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB'07), held together with SIGMOD’07, Beijing, China, June 2007. [pdf]

[4]   Q. Li, J. Beaver, A. Amer, P. K. Chrysanthis, A. Labrinidis and G. Santhanakrishnan. “Multi-Criteria Routing in Wireless Environments”, Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC), 1(4), Dec. 2005. [pdf] [poster]

[5]   G. Santhanakrishnan, Q. Li, J. Beaver, P. K. Chrysanthis, A. Amer and A. Labrinidis. “Multi-Criteria Routing”, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS’05), Santorini, Greece, July 2005. [pdf]

[6]   G. Hu and Q. Li. “XDBC: XML Database Connectivity and API for Native XML Databases”, Proc. of the Fourth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD’03), 329-336, 2003. [poster]

[7]   Q. Li and G. Hu, “An XML-bases Distributed Query System”, International Journal of Computer & Information Science, 3(3): 176-184, September 2002.

[8]   G. Hu and Q. Li, “Schema Validation Applied to Native XML Databases”, Proc. of the Scuola Superiore G. Reiss Romoli International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine on the Internet (SSGRR’02), L'Aquila, Italy, July 2002.

·   Reviewer for Intl. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

·   Reviewer for Intl. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)

·   Reviewer for ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of data (SIGMOD) 

·   Reviewer for Intl. Conference on Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB) 

·   Coordinator of the ADMT Lab weekly meeting (Fall 2004 – June 2006)

·   Coordinator of the University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University joint meeting on database systems (Fall 2004 – June 2006)

·   Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2009

·   NSDI Student Travel Award, San Jose, CA, 2006

·   USENIX Technical Conference Student Travel Award, Boston, MA, 2006

·   ADMT Publication Server

·   AdDRESS Sensor Network

·   IISIS Patient Tracking System

·   XML Database Management

·  Languages: Java, C++, C, SQL, JavaScript, Ruby, Matlab, LaTex

·  Systems: Unix, Linux, and Windows