General Information

• I am on sabbatical leave. My plans and coordinates during this period are as follows:
  • August 2010-March 2011:
    • KITHCT Visiting Professor
    • National University of Singapore
    • School of Computing
    • Computing 1, #03-15
    • 13 Computing Drive
    • Singapore 117417
    • Tel: +65-6516 6230
    • Email: ozsu@comp.nus.edu.sg
  • September 2011-April 2012:
    • Visiting Professor
    • ETH Zürich
    • Institut für Informationssysteme, Systems Group
  • If you need to get in touch with me during my sabbatical, please send me email.
• Driving directions to Waterloo
• Campus map

Honours and 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

Students, Research Staff and Visitors

• Current (Some pictures)
• Former

Current Activities

Books

• Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Co-Editor-in-Chief. See the DBLP page.
• Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, Series Editor
• 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

Journals

• Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, Editorial Board Member
• Information Technology and Management, Editorial Board Member
• World Wide Web Journal, Editorial Board Member
• Journal of Information and Data Management, Editorial Board Member

Professional Societies

• ACM Publications Board, Vice-President of New Publications
• CRA Board of Directors, Canadian Association of Computer Science (CACS) Representative

Conferences

• PC Member, Second IEEE Workshop on Information & Software as Services (WISS'10), Long Beach, CA, March 2010
• PC Co-Chair, First International Workshop on Graph Databases (IWDG), China, July 2010
• PC Member, StreamKDD: Novel Data Stream Pattern Mining Techniques, Washington, DC, July 2010
• PC Member, 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Singapore, September 2010
• PC Vice-Chair, International Conference on Data Engineering, Hanover, Germany, April 2011

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).
• Associate Editor, ACM Computing Surveys (2005-2009).

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.