Database Seminars
The Database Center hosts a weekly seminar. This seminar provides a forum for students and faculty working in the database area to discuss their research work and share ideas.
If you are interested in giving a talk, and find an open slot in the schedule below, please contact Seminar Co-ordinator by email. Please provide a discussion topic along with a short summary of your talk.
Time and Place: Tuesdays Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 11:00a-12 PM in CSE E404
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| Fall 2012 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Oct 10 | Viru Kanjilal | Representing and Querying Spatial Networks in Databases |
| Sept 25 | Gunhan Grulsoy | RINQ: Reference-based Indexing for Network Queries |
| Sept 18 | Kun Li | Linear-chain CRF Learning and Inference for NLP tasks in MADlib |
| Summer 2012 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| July 25 | Andrei Tador | Making Probabilistic Databases Practical |
| July 18 | Various | Internship discussion |
| July 11 | Haitham Gabr | Efficient Algorithms for Detecting Signaling Pathways in Protein Interaction Networks |
| July 3 | Yang Chen | GraphLab Parallel Machine Learning and Its Application in Knowledge Discovering |
| Jun 27 | Christopher Dudley | User-Defined Aggregates in Modern Database Systems |
| Jun 20 | Supriya Nirkhiwale | A Sampling Algebra for Aggregate Estimation |
| Jun 13 | Viru Kanjilal | Making Guarantees in Distributed Systems: CAP Theorem |
| Jun 6 | Clint P. George | An Introduction to Topic Modeling |
| May 29 | Christan Grant | Large-Scale Cross-Document Coreference Using Distributed Inference and Hierarchical Models |
| Spring 2008 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Apr 17 | Ferhat Ay | Consistent alignment of metabolic pathways without abstraction |
| Apr 10 | Subi Arumugam | Monte Carlo Methods for Evaluating Probabilistic Relational Predicates (cont'd.) |
| Apr 3 | Subi Arumugam | Monte Carlo Methods for Evaluating Probabilistic Relational Predicates |
| Mar 26 | P.K. Manna | A Probabilistic Approach to Detect Malware in Text |
| Feb 28 | Alin Dobra | Finding and attacking research problem |
| Feb 21 | Laukik Chitnis | Fault Tolerant Aggregation in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks |
| Feb 14 | Manas Somaiya | Learning correlations using Mixture-Of-Subsets model |
| Feb 7 | Amit Dhurandhar | Statistical Relational Learning |
| Jan 31 | Jun Liu | Inferring Progression Models for CGH Data |
| Spring 2007 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Apr 18 | Xiuyao Song | Statistical Change Detection for Multi-dimensional Data |
| Apr 11 | Reasey Praing | Directional Relationships between Spatial Objects | Apr 4 | Dr. Alin Dobra | Discussion about practices for technical presentation |
| Feb 28 | Mingxi Wu | Online Estimation For MIN/MAX Aggregate SQL Queries |
| Feb 21 | Dr. Tamer Kahveci | An iterative algorithm for metabolic network-based drug target identification |
| Feb 14 | Dr. Chris Jermaine | Supporting Scaleable Online Statistical Processing |
| Feb 07 | Fei Xu | TBA |
| Jan 31 | Florin Rusu | TBA |
| Jan 24 | nobody | Cancelled due to career fair |
| Jan 17 | Reasey Praing | Preserving Local Topological Relationships |
| Fall 2006 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Dec 06 | Laukik Chitnis | Analysis of tree-based aggregation techniques in sensor networks |
| Nov 29 | Xiuyao Song | Conditional Anomaly Detection |
| Nov 22 | Thanksgiving | No Seminar |
| Nov 15 | Xu Zhang | Multiple Sequence Alignment Solutions and Applications |
| Nov 08 | Dr. Joachim Hammer | Jobs in the Academia |
| Nov 01 | Dev Oliver | The Morpheus Data Transformation Project |
| Oct 25 | Xuehui Li | A Novel Algorithm For Identifying Low-Complexity Regions In A Protein Sequence |
| Oct 18 | Dr. Alin Dobra | Statistical Analysis of Histograms for Aggregate Query Processing |
| Oct 11 | Jun Liu | Markers improve the clustering of CGH data |
| Oct 04 | Reasey Praing | Efficient Evaluation Techniques for Topological Predicates on Complex Regions |
| Sep 27 | Dr. Eva Czabarka | What does database bootstrapping mimic? |
| Sep 20 | Mark Mckenney | Overview of Map Algebra |
| Sep 13 | Alejandro Pauly | Overview of VASA: A Vague Spatial Algebra |
| Sep 06 | Abhijit Pol | Sampling Techniques for Scalable Approximate Query Processing |
| Aug 30 | Jayendra Venkateswaran | Reference-Based Indexing of Sequence Databases |
| Spring 2006 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Jan 25 | Seema Degwekar | Knowledge Rule Interoperability through Web Services |
| Feb 1 | Alexandra Martinez | An Approach for Quality Estimation in Biological Data Sources |
| Feb 8 | Florin Rusu | Fast Range-Summable Random Variables for Efficient Aggregate Summation |
| Feb 15 | Subramanian Arumugam | Closest-Point-of-Approach Join for Moving Object Histories |
| Mar 8 | Jayendra Venkateswaran | Finding Data Broadness Via Generalized Nearest Neighbors |
| Mar 15 | Spring Break | No Seminar |
| Mar 29 | Shantanu Joshi | Materialized Sample Views for Database Approximation |
| Apr 5 | Abhijit Pol | Maintaining Very Large Sample Using Geometric Files |
| Apr 12 | Amit Dhurandhar | Semi-analytical Method for Model Selection Measures based on Moment Analysis |
| Apr 19 | Oguzhan Topsakal | A New Approach for Automatic Schema Matching: Matching with Analysis of Source CODE (MASCODE) |
| Fall 2005 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Nov 2 | Laukik Chitnis | Aggregation Methods for Very Large Sensor Networks |
| Nov 9 | Mingxi Wu | Distance-based Outlier Detection |
| Nov 16 | Jayendra Venkateswaran | Approximate Matching in Sequence Databases using Distance-based Indexing |
| Nov 23 | Thanksgiving | No Seminar |
