General Information

• Please set up an appointment with Ursula Thoene before you drop by.
• Planned absences and travel itinerary for the immediate future:
  • May 26-31: Advisory Board Mtg, Dept. of Computer Science & Eng., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • June 4-5: CACS/AIC Meeting, Windsor
  • June 29-July 3: SIGMOD/PODS Conference, Providence, RI
  • If you need to get in touch with me during my absence from campus, please contact Ursula Thoene (see coordinates above).
• Driving directions to Waterloo
• Campus map

Awards

• Distinguished Alumni Award, Ohio State University College of Engineering (2008)
• ACM Distinguished Lecturer (2007-present)
• Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (2006)
• ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award (2006)
• University Research Chair, University of Waterloo (2004-2011)
• Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Mathematics University of Waterloo (2000-2003)
• McCalla Professor, University of Alberta (1993-1994)

Research

• Multimedia Database Management
• Distributed Data Management
• XML Data Management
  • XBench XML DBMS Benchmark

     Earlier Projects

• TIGUKAT Object Database Project
• DISIMA Image Database Project
• AURORA Database Interoperability Project

Teaching

• CS 448/648 - Introduction to Database Management (Winter 2001)
• CS 454/654 - Distributed Systems (Winter 2002, Fall 2002, Winter 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2004)
• CS 748T - Distributed Database Systems (Winter 2001)
• CS 856 - Web Data Management (Fall 2002, Winter 2005)
• CS 856 - Internet-Scale Distributed Data Management (Fall 2005)
• PDDBS - Parallel and Distributed Databases (Course taught at ETH Zürich in Winter 2006)

Vita

• Short biographical sketch
• Full CV (PDF Format)
• My Erdös number
• My h-index
• My academic geneology

Publications

• Publications grouped by type
• Publications grouped by topic
• Principles of Distributed Database Systems, 2nd edition.
• My ACM author page
• My publications listed in DBLP
• Citations at CiteSeer
• Citations at Google Scholar
• Another listing at BibFinder

Students, Research Staff and Visitors

• Current (Some pictures)
• Former

Current Activities

• Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Co-Editor-in-Chief. DBLP page.
• ACM Computing Surveys, Associate Editor.
• Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, Editorial Board Member.
• Information Technology and Management, Editorial Board Member.
• World Wide Web Journal, Editorial Board Member.
• ACM Publications Board, Member
• Springer Book Series on Advanced Information & Knowledge Processing, Editorial Board Member.
• Springer Book Series on Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies, Editorial Board Member.
• Recent or upcoming conference activities:
  • PC Member, Second IEEE Workshop on Information & Software as Services (WISS'10), Long Beach, CA, March 2010.
  • PC Member, 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Singapore, September 2010.

Selected Past Activities

• Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2001-2005.


• Trustee, VLDB Endowment, 1996-2002.


• Coordinating Editor-in-Chief, The VLDB Journal, 2001-2005 (Co-EIC: 1997-2001).

Personal Stuff & Hobbies

• Some pictures: Nuran, Umut, Shina, My Honda
• I collect pens. For a partial list of the pens I own, click here.
• For a listing of important pen sites on the Web click here.