University of Southern California USC

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University of Southern California (USC)

• A Review of Database Related Research Groups
• September 2005

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Compuer Science Department

• History
• Established in 1972
• People (as of 2004)
• Tenure Track Faculty 27
• Joint Faculty 18
• Research Faculty 37
• Adjunct Faculty 13
• PhD Students 224
• Masters About 775
• Undergrad About 600
• New Faculty (estimated) 12 (for the next 5
  years)
• Ranking (usnews)
• Engineering 7 (as of 2004)
• Computer Science 27 (as of 2002)

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Research Centers and Institutes

• Information Sciences Institue (ISI)
• Geographical Information Systems
• Digital Government
• Sensor Networks
• Autonomous Agents
• Knowledge Systems
• Networking, Grid Technology
• Privacy and Security
• Natural Language
• Robotics
• Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC)
• USC Brain Project
• Center for Software Engineering
• Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems
• Institute for Creative Technology (ICT)
• Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
  (IRIS)

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Database Related Labs and People

• Information Laboratory (InfoLab)
• Dr. Cyrus Shahabi
• Database Lab (Dblab)
• Dr. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
• Data Management Research Laboratory (DMRL)
• Dr. Roger Zimmermann
• Internet Multimedia Laboratory (IML)
• Dr. Leana Golubchik
• Laboratory for Molecular Science
• Dr. Leonard M. Adleman
• Semantic Information Representation Lab
• Dr. Dennis McLeod

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InfoLab

• People
• Faculty Dr. Cyrus Shahabi
• Researchers 9 PhDs, 2 Post Docs, 5 Masters
• Alumni 7 PhDs Kuwait Univ., Geosemble Tech.,
  Intel Lab., Tsing Hua Univ
• Research Theme
• Multidimensional Data Analysis
• Peer-to-Peer Data Management
• Stream Query Processing and Streaming
  Architectures
• Spatio-temporal Databases, Geospatial Data
  Integration
• Publications
• Books Streaming Media Server Design, Shape
  Analysis and Retrieval of Multimedia Objects,
  Several book chapters
• Sigmod, VLDB, ICDE, ICDM, SSTD, PAKDD, etc.

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InfoLab

• Dr. Cyrus Shahabi
• Associate Professor _at_CS, PhD 1996, USC
• Research
• Spatio-temporal Databases
• Nearest neighbor search, geospatial data fusion
• Stream query Processing
• Spatial data stream, temporal abstraction of
  immersive data streams
• Multidimensional Data Analysis
• Multivariate time series analysis, statistical
  queries on multidimensional datasets
• P2P Data Management
• P2P Search
• Continuous media servers, query customization,
  web services discovery, shape retrieval
• (Working) Demos
• AIMS demo
• TerraWorld demo

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DBLab

• People
• Director Dr. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
• PhD 1990 Wisconsin
• Researchers 3 PhDs, 3 Masters
• Alumni
• Univ. Denver, USC, Univ. of South Florida,
  Informix, Object Design
• Research Theme
• Parallel, Object Oriented Databases
• Data Management in Clusters
• Web Services
• Continuous Media Servers
• Publications
• Multimedia, Networking, Mobile Wireless
  Conferences

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Internet Multimedia Lab

• People
• Faculty Dr. Leana Golubchik
• Associate Professor
• PhD in 1995 from UCLA
• Researchers 5 PhD
• Research Theme
• Scalable upload applications over wide-area
  networks
• QoS-based design of large-scale continuous media
  storage systems

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Data Management Research Lab

• People
• Dr. Roger Zimmermann
• PhD 1998, USC
• Advisor Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
• Researchers 10 PhDs, 10 Masters
• Alumni Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, IBM Silicon
  Valley, Intel Research, Infosys, etc.
• Research Theme
• Streaming Media
• HYDRA - High-speed Data Recording Architecture
•  YimaCast AudioPeer - Peer-to-Peer Streaming
• Web Services and Database Integration
  (Geo-spatial data)
•  GDME - Geotechnical Information Exchange

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Laboratory for Molecular Science

• People
• Director Dr. Leonard M. Adleman
• Four PhDs, Three Alumni
• Research
• DNA Computing Molecular Computers

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Semantic Representation Lab

• People
• Director Dr. Dennis McLeod
• PhD MIT
• Researchers One RA, Two Alumni
• Research
• Dynamic Evolving Ontologies
• Semantic Integration