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“Best
of SDM07” Award (2/21/08)
ROAM: Rule- and motif-based anomaly
detection in massive moving object data sets, by X. Li, J. Han, S. Kim,
and H. Gonzalez, was one of four “Best of” papers at the 2007 SIAM Conference
on Data Mining.
Cheng
Zhai Receives Sloan Fellowship (2/19/08)
Congratulations to Cheng Zhai for his selection as a Sloan Fellow for 2008!
Xuanhui
Wang Receives Yahoo! Fellowship (2/19/08)
Xuanhui Wang is one of four US winners of a 2008-9 Yahoo! PhD Student
Fellowship. Xuanhui works with Cheng Zhai on exploratory web search and
web search log mining. Xuanhui joins last year's recipient Qiaozhu Mei.
Cheng
Zhai Receives Gear Award (5/24/07)
Cheng Zhai will receive the Gear Award, which is given annually by the UIUC
Department of Computer Science to recognize an outstanding assistant
professor.
PAKDD07
Best Student Paper Award (5/24/07)
Congratulations to Feida Zhu, Xifeng Yan, Jiawei Han, and Philip Yu, who have
received the Best Student Paper Award at PAKDD 2007 for their paper entitled gPrune:
A Constraint Pushing Framework for Graph Pattern Mining.
X. Yan
Receives SIGMOD Dissertation Award Honorable Mention (4/21/07)
Congratulations to Xifeng Yan, who has received an honorable mention in the
SIGMOD Distinguished Dissertation Award contest for his thesis entitled Mining,
Indexing and Similarity Search in Large Graph Data Sets.
H.
Chen Receives IBM Fellowship (4/10/07)
Congratulations to Hong Chen, who joins Soumyadeb Mitra as a recipient of an
IBM Fellowship for 2007-8.
Q. Mei
Wins Yahoo! PhD Fellowship (4/10/07)
Congratulations to Qiaozhu Mei, who has received a 2-year PhD fellowship from
Yahoo!. more
T.
Cheng Receives Yahoo! Scholarship (4/10/07)
Tao Cheng has received a Key Technical Challenges scholarship from Yahoo!.
Congratulations!
ICDE07
Award to DAIS Members (3/28/07)
ICDE07 has chosen a paper by F. Zhu, X. Yan, J. Han, P. S. Yu, and H. Cheng
as the recipient of its Best Student Paper Award. Congratulations!
S.
Mitra Receives IBM Fellowship (2/15/07)
Congratulations to Soumyadeb Mitra, who will be an IBM Fellow in 2007-8.
DAIS
Group to Graduate 9 PhD Students This Year (12/6/06)
We are pleased to announce the upcoming graduation of 9 PhD students from the
DAIS group (profiled to the right of this column). Please contact us if you
are looking for an excellent new hire for your department!
Zhai at National
Academy of Engineering (12/6/06)
Cheng Zhai
was invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2006 US
Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. more
DAIS
in National Academy
of Sciences Proceedings (12/6/06)
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has published Genome
scan for cis-regulatory
DNA motifs associated with social behavior in honey bees, by S. Sinha,
X. Ling, C. Witfield,
C. Zhai,
and G. Robinson. more
KDD06
Award to DAIS Members (12/6/06)
KDD06 has chosen a paper by Q. Mei, D. Xin, H. Cheng, J. Han,
and C. Zhai,
titled Generating Semantic Annotations for Frequent Patterns
with Context Analysis, as the runner-up for Best Student
Paper.
SDM06
Honors DAIS Members (12/6/06)
Congratulations to H. Liu, J. Han, D. Xin, and Z. Shao,
whose paper Mining Interesting Patterns from Very High Dimensional Data: A
Top-Down Row Enumeration Approach was chosen as one of the four best at
the 2006 SIAM Int. Conf. on Data Mining.
Winslett
Becomes ACM Fellow
(12/6/06)
Marianne Winslett has been selected as an ACM Fellow for 2007.
DAIS
Graduates Join Industry, Academia (12/6/06)
Congratulations to our DAIS 2006 PhD graduates, who have moved on to their
new positions: Bin He, Zhenmin
Li, and Pin Zhou (IBM Almaden),
Feng
Qin (Ohio State), and Xifeng
Yan
(IBM TJ Watson).
DAIS
Members Receive SSS06 Best Paper Award (10/20/06)
Congratulations to Soumyadeb
Mitra
and Marianne Winslett, whose paper Secure Deletion from Inverted Indexes
on Compliance Storage has won the best paper award at the 2006 Storage
Security and Survivability Workshop.
Y. Y.
Zhou Now Associate Professor (8/20/06)
Congratulations to YuanYuan
Zhou for her promotion to associate professor this semester!
DAIS
Members Win VLDB06 Best Paper Award (8/20/06)
Congratulations to Soumyadeb
Mitra,
Marianne Winslett, and Windsor Hsu of IBM, whose paper Trustworthy Keyword
Search for Regulatory-Compliant Record Retention has won the best paper
award at VLDB 2006.
R. Sinha
Receives CSE Fellowship (5/12/06)
Rishi
Sinha
will receive a Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship for 2006-7,
for his work on managing scientific data.
Doan
at Wisconsin Next Year (5/10/06)
AnHai
Doan has taken a leave of absence to be at the University
of Wisconsin next year.
Good luck, AnHai!
Midwest
Database Research Symposium to Be Held at UIUC on April 15 (4/6/06)
Please join
us at the Siebel
Center for this year's Midwest
Database Research Symposium. Send email to the organizers if
you need overnight accommodations.
DAIS
Students Win ICDE06 Paper Award (4/6/06)
Congratulations to Hector Gonzalez, Jiawei Han, Xiaolei
Li, and Diego Klabjan,
whose paper entitled Warehousing and analysis for massive RFID data sets
has won the best student paper award at ICDE06.
X. Ma
Receives NSF CAREER Award (1/24/06)
Recent DAIS graduate Xiaosong
Ma, now a professor at North
Carolina State
University,
has received a 2006 NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations, Xiaosong!
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Ranked number
6 in the world by US News and World Report, the Database and Information
Systems Laboratory (DAIS) conducts fundamental and cutting-edge research in
databases, data mining, Web mining, information retrieval, and natural
language processing. Current topics include:
- Data integration and schema matching
- Exploring and integrating the Deep Web
- Information security and privacy
- Mining data streams and sequential and
semi-structured data
- OS support for storage systems
- Text retrieval and mining
- Bioinformatics
- Management of scientific data
- Top-k query processing
Graduating Students
We are
pleased to announce that we have nine graduating PhD students in spring
2008. Please contact us if you are looking
for an excellent new hire for your department!
Hong Cheng
(pattern-based classification and analysis)
Hector Gonzalez
(RFID, traffic, and moving object data warehousing and data mining)
Jing Jiang
(machine learning for NLP, bioinformatics)
Adam Lee
(authorization in distributed systems)
Xiaolei Li
(moving object data mining and multidimensional systems)
Shan Lu
(improving the correctness of concurrent programs)
Soumyadeb Mitra
(compliance storage)
will be joining
Data Domain, a small storage company.
Rishi Sinha
(management of scientific data) has joined Microsoft's Applied Research division.
Joe Tucek
(system support for software reliability and security)
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