Research Areas

databases and distributed systems (detailed topics: graph data management (G* project), trajectory data management, real-time data stream processing, Internet-scale data management, fault tolerance and load management)


Honors and Awards

  1. •NSF CAREER award IIS-1149372, 02/2012 - 01/2019.

  2. •Best Poster Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 04/2014.

  3. •Best Poster Presentation Runners Up, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS, 11/2010.

  4. •IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award, 06/2010.

  5. •Best Demo Award, SIGMOD 2005, 06/2005.

  6. •National Scholarship, Ministry of Information and Communication of Korea, 2001 - 2005.

  7. •New Software Award (Grand Prize, Multimedia Contents Area), Ministry of Information and Communication of Korea, 02/2001.


Research Funding

  1. •PI, NSF CAREER award IIS-1149372, ``CAREER: G*: A Parallel System for Efficiently Processing Large Graphs’’, 02/2012 - 01/2019, $496,648.

  2. •Co-PI (with Catherine Lawson, S. S. Ravi, Feng Chen), US Department of Transportation, ``Techniques for Information Extraction from Compressed GPS Traces’’, 03/01/2014 - 02/28/2015, $100,000.

  3. •PI, University at Albany Faculty Research Awards Program (FRAP) - Category A, ``G*: A Parallel System for Efficiently Managing Large Graphs’’, 05/2012 - 04/2014, $9,796.

  4. •Co-PI (with C. T. Lawson and S. S. Ravi), US Department of Transportation, ``Compressing and Querying Multiple GPS Traces for Transportation Planning’’, 12/01/2011 - 12/31/2012, $100,000.

  5. •PI, KISTI Supercomputing Center, ``Development of Techniques for Managing Large Amounts of Network Data in the Cloud’’, 07/2012 - 11/2012,  $42,991.

  6. •PI, SnapLogic, ``Development and Evaluation of Parallel Data Processing Techniques’’, Duration: 07/2011 - 12/2012, $15,000.

  7. •PI (with J. Gangolly, and D. Rosenkrantz), Albany Foundation - IBM Open Collaboration, ``Financially-Oriented Stream Pattern Detection Language: Specification and Identification’’, 07/2010 - 07/2011, $40,000.

  8. •Co-PI (with C. T. Lawson, S. Lyu, and S. S. Ravi), US Department of Transportation, ``Compression and Mining of GPS Trace Data: New Techniques and Applications for Transportation’’, 01/2010 - 12/2010, $99,848.

  9. •Co-PI (with J. Gangolly, S. Lyu, S. S. Ravi, and D. Rosenkrantz), Albany Foundation - IBM Open Collaboration, “Patterns of Interest in Financial Data Streams: Specification and Identification”, 07/15/2009 - 01/15/2010, $40,000.

  10. •PI, University at Albany Faculty Research Awards Program (FRAP) - Category A, ``Sensor-Based Real-Time Monitoring and Accident Prevention in the UAlbany Tunnel System’’, 05/2009 - 04/2012, $8,379.


Graduated PhD Students

  1. •Baibhav Rajbhandari, ``PRESTO: Fast and Effective Group Closeness Maximization’’, 09/2014 - 08/2022

  2. •Aparna Joshi, ``An Efficient System for Subgraph Discovery’’, 06/2013 - 12/2018 (First Employment: D Y Patil International University, Assistant Professor)

  3. •Paul Olsen Jr., ``Efficient Execution of Top-k Closeness Centrality Queries’’, 01/2012 - 07/2016 (First Employment: The College of Saint Rose, Assistant Professor)

  4. •Alan Labouseur, ``A Query-Oriented Approach to Graph Series Distribution and Replication’’, 05/2012 - 05/2014 (Current Employment: Marist College)

  5. •Fan Ping, ``Replica Placement with Network Coordinates ’’, 01/2009 - 07/2011 (First Employment: Amazon)


Current PhD Students

  1. •Jeremy Birnbaum

  2. •Evangeli Silva


PhD Committees (Graduated)

  1. •Dan DiTursi (Computer Science, University at Albany - SUNY), Thesis: Wrinkles in Time: An Exploration of Non-uniform Temporal Resolution in Network Data, 06/2017 - 08/2019

  2. •Yizhen Chen (Computer Science, University at Albany - SUNY), Thesis: Using Program Invariants to Detect Online Software Anomaly and Select Regression Tests, 05/2018 - 01/2019

  3. •Ewa Musial (Computer Science, University at Albany - SUNY), 01/2011 - 05/2014

  4. •Steve Lackey (Informatics, University at Albany - SUNY), 05/2009 - 05/2014

  5. •Jonathan Muckell (Informatics, University at Albany - SUNY), 05/2009 - 05/2013 (University at Albany Distinguished Dissertation Award)

  6. •Xunyu Pan (Computer Science, University at Albany - SUNY), 10/2009 - 11/2011 (First Employment: Assistant Professor, Frostburg State University, MD, USA)


Graduated Master Students

  1. •Xuanzuo Liu, Project: IA Comparative Evaluation of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Neo4j, 12/2020

  2. •Jinyu Tian, Project: A Comparative Evaluation of Deep Learning Frameworks, 12/2020

  3. •Ibironke Osipitan, Project: IsoSky: A System for Isomorphic Subgraph Skyline Search, 05/2020 (First Employment: Citrix)

  4. •Prakash Bangaru, Project: Subgraph Isomorphism and Skyline Points, 12/2019

  5. •Anusha Hiremath, Project: Isomorphic Subgraph Skylines, 05/2019

  6. •Aparna Joshi, ``SGMS: A SubGraph Management System’’, Spring 2016 (Next Position: PhD student at University at Albany)

  7. •Kyuseo Park, ``TrajMetrix: A Trajectory Compression Benchmarking Framework’’, Spring 2014 (Next Position: PhD student at University of Florida)

  8. •Yuchao Ma, ``Implementation of Various Single Trajectory Compression Algorithms’’, Spring 2014 (Next Position: PhD student at Washington State)

  9. •Hsiang-Cheng Meng, ``Similarity-Based Compression of GPS Trajectory Data’’, Spring 2013 (First Employment: Tekelec)

  10. •Vikram Patil, ``Traffic Congestion Modeling using New York City Taxi Data’, Fall 2012 (First Employment: New York State Senate)

  11. •Kwangjin Gee, ``JVM Performance Monitoring’’, Fall 2010 (First Employment: SK C&C)

  12. •Christopher McConnell, ``Detouring and Replication for Fast and Reliable Internet-Scale Stream Processing’’, Spring 2010 (First Employment: GE Research, Graduated with Publication Award).

  13. •Jerry Lin, ``Operator Scheduling over multiprocessors in Data Stream Systems’’, Spring 2010 (First Employment: GE Research)

  14. •Gagan Singh, ``Using MapReduce and the Hadoop framework for Large Scale Epidemic Simulation’’, Spring 2010 (First Employment: MSE Power Systems)

  15. •Paarul Singh, ``Energy-Efficient Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks’’, Spring 2010

  16. •David Moore Jr, ``Efficient Processing of GPS Spatial Temporal Data Streams’’, Spring 2010


Undergraduate Students

  1. •Justin Howard, Mariah Galli, Michelle Dang, Nathaniel Tulchinsky (University at Albany, Capstone Project), 01/2021 - 05/2021

  2. •Christian Puleio, Michelle Dankwah, Vinay Sharma, Tyler Venzen (University at Albany, Capstone Project), 01/2021 - 05/2021

  3. •Di Huang, Yangyang Li, Minghao Cui, Zhiyong Li (University at Albany, Capstone Project), 09/2020 - 12/2020

  4. •Bingyi Li, Zhenyuan Li, Aaron Zhang (University at Albany, Capstone Project), 01/2020 - 05/2020

  5. •Rui Ding, Junfeng Li, Qiren Wang (University at Albany, Capstone Project), 01/2020 - 05/2020

  6. •Vincent Cerchia, 01/2014 - 05/2015

  7. •Christian Ramson (Dillard University), University at Albany Summer Research Program, 06/2012 - 07/2012

  8. •Daniel Bokser, 09/2011 - 09/2012

  9. •Brandon Jennings (University of Maryland -- Baltimore County), University at Albany Summer Research Program, 06/2010 - 07/2010


High School Students

  1. •Guodong Fu (Montgomery Blair High School, MD), 06/2009 - 08/2009 (admitted to the University of Maryland -- College Park)


Activities

Chair/Organizer

  1. •Proceedings Co-Chair, the 31st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015)

  2. •Organizer, 2014 ACM SIGMOD Programming Contest

  3. •Publication Chair, the 13th Technical Symposium of the Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America (KOCSEA 2012)

  4. •Session Chair, the 30th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2014)

  5. •Session Chair, the 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2011)

Program Committee Member

  1. •The 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2021)

  2. •The 2016 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2016) Demonstration Track

  3. •The 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2015)

  4. •The 31st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015)

  5. •The 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2014)

  6. •The 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2014)

  7. •The International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2014 PhD Symposium

  8. •The 16th Asia-Pacific Web Conferences (APWeb 2014)

  9. •The 4th International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf 2014), co-located with ICDCS 2014

  10. •The SDM 2014 Workshop on Mining Networks and Graphs (MNG 2014)

  11. •The 39th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2013)

  12. •The 29th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013) Best Poster Award Committee

  13. •The 25th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2013)

  14. •The 15th Asia-Pacific Web Conferences (APWeb 2013)

  15. •The 3rd International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf 2013; co-located with ICDCS 2013)

  16. •The 2012 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2012; demonstration track)

  17. •The 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2012)

  18. •The 3rd International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2011; co-located with ICDCS 2011)

  19. •The 5th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2011)

  20. •The 27th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011)

  21. •The 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Applications (IWUCA 2010)

  22. •The 3rd International Workshop on Scalable Stream Processing Systems (SSPS 2010; co-located with IPDPS 2010)

  23. •The 12th Asia-Pacific Web Conferences (APWeb 2010)

  24. •The 2nd International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2009)

  25. •The 6th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN 2009)

  26. •The 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2008)

Journal Reviewer

  1. •VLDB Journal, 2020, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2010

  2. •ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 2013

  3. •ACM SIGMOD Record, 2014

  4. •ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2019

  5. •ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 2015

  6. •IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2020, 2017, 2016, 2011, 2010, 2009

  7. •IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2017, 2011

  8. •IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR), 2012

  9. •Springer Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), 2013, 2010

  10. •Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 2019

  11. •Elsevier Information Systems (IS), 2016, 2010

  12. •Elsevier Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), 2016, 2013

  13. •Elsevier Parallel Computing (PARCO), 2009

  14. •Software - Practice and Experience (SPE), 2012, 2010

  15. •International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), 2014

  16. •Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), 2010

  17. •Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), 2010

Government Review Panels

  1. •NSF Proposal Review Panel, April, 2018

  2. •NSF Proposal Review Panel, April, 2016

  3. •NSF Proposal Review Panel, June, 2015

  4. •NSF Proposal Review Panel, April, 2012

  5. •NSF Proposal Review Panel, March, 2012

External Conference Reviewer

  1. •The 28th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012)

  2. •The 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009)

  3. •The 2008 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2008)

  4. •The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2008)

  5. •The 38th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008)

  6. •The 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2007)

  7. •The 1st International Workshop on Distributed Event Processing, Systems and Applications (DEPSA 2007)

  8. •The 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006)


Collaborators (2006-present)

Daniel Abadi (Yale University), Yanif Ahmad (Johns Hopkins University), Mert Akdere (Google), Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington), Ugur Çetintemel (Brown University), Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis University), Wei Fan (IBM Research), Jagdish Gangolly (University at Albany - SUNY), Youn-Hee Han (Korea Universityof Technology and Education), Wook-Shin Han (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea), Catherine Lawson (Department of Geography and Planning, University at Albany - SUNY), Siwei Lyu (University at Albany - SUNY), Olga Papaemmanouil (Brandeis University), Chanyeol Park (KISTI Supercomputing Center, Korea), Sekharipuram S. Ravi (University at Albany - SUNY), Daniel Rosenkrantz (University at Albany - SUNY), Mehul A. Shah (HP Labs), Michael Stonebraker (MIT), Nesime Tatbul (Intel Labs), Octavian Udrea (IBM Research), Jun-Weon Yoon (KISTI Supercomputing Center, Korea), Stan Zdonik (Brown University)