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
  • September 2011-March 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.

• Undergraduate internships: I am not going to be admitting any interns for the foreseeable future. Please do not write to me about internship as I will not be able to respond to individual emails.

• Graduate students: I am not going to be admitting any new graduate students until the end of my sabbatical in 2012. Please do not write to me about graduate applications as I will not be able to respond to individual emails.

• Driving directions to Waterloo
• Campus map

Honours and Awards

• Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2006)
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2010)
• University Research Chair, University of Waterloo (2004-2011)
• ACM Distinguished Lecturer (2007-present)
• IBM CAS Canada Research Faculty Fellow (2010-present)
• Ohio State University College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award (2008)
• ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award (2006)
• Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Mathematics University of Waterloo (2000-2003)
• McCalla Professor, University of Alberta (1993-1994)
• Sigma Xi – Scientific Research Society Member (1994-present)
• NATO Ph.D. scholarship through TÜ̈BITAK–The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (1979–1983)

Research

My research is on data management. Although I have done work in basic database technologies such as query processing, transaction processing, and database integration, the main focus of my research follows two threads: (1) application of database technology to non-traditional data types, and (2) distributed data management.

For more information click here.

Also see the following for a major project on digital media.

• Digital Media Enabling Technologies 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) - I taught a similar course with a very similar content at National University of Singapore in Fall 2010 (no web page unfortunately)

Vita

• Short biographical sketch
• Full CV (PDF Format)
• My academic geneology
• Some statistics
  • My Erdös number
  • My h-index
  • Scholar index
  • Google scholar

Publications

• Publications grouped by type
• Publications grouped by topic
• 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

• Principles of Distributed Database Systems, 3rd edition, Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-8833-1.

  E-book version.
  Supplementary material (Presentation slides, JPEG figures, and solutions to some of the exercises. All of these, except for solutions to exercises, are also available from Springer site.
  You can also order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Chapters-Indigo.

• Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-0-387-35544-3. See the DBLP page.
• Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, Series Editor -- DBLP page for the series.
• 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
• International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, Advisory Board Member

Professional Societies

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

Conferences

• Honorary Chair and PC Member, VLDB 2012 - 38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Istanbul, Turkey, 27-31 August 2012
• Co-Chair, SIGMOD/PODS 2012 PhD Symposium, Scottsdale, Arizona, 20 May 2012
• PC Member, EnDM 2012 - 1st Workshop on Energy Data Management, Berlin, Germany, 30 March 2012

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.