CS Department at University of Illinois Chicago

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CS Department atUniversity of Illinois Chicago

• Tao Cheng

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History

• UIC was founded in 1965
• 1982 Department of Electrical Engineering and
  Computer Science
• July 2001 Computer Science Department
• CS Ranking
• 30th (US News 2002)
• 35th (US News 2003)

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Current Status

• 33 faculty, 225 graduate and 375 undergraduate
  students
• Annual research funding around 9 million
• Five IEEE or ACM fellows
• Eight new hires since 2001
• 3 UIUC Alumni
• One or more anticipated open rank faculty
  positions for 2006!

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DB Related Research Laboratories

• Advances in Information Systems Laboratory
• Faculty Isabel Cruz
• Database and Information System Laboratory
• Faculty Clement Yu (director), Isabel Cruz,
  Ashfaq Khokhar, Bing Liu, Prasad Sistla, Ouri
  Wolfson
• Databases and Mobile Computing Laboratory
• Faculty Ouri Wolfson (director), Prasad Sistla

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Isabel F. Cruz

• Associate Professor
• PhD, U of Toronto, 1994
• Research Interests
• Databases, information visualization, visual
  languages, graph drawing, multimedia, information
  retrieval
• Projects
• Visualization and Integration of Heterogeneous
  Information
• Data Interoperability for Geospatial Applications
  
• CASSIS Context-Aware Computing with Applications
  to Public Health Management
• Semantic Desktop (Personal Information Management
  Systems)

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Robert Grossman

• Professor
• Bio
• PhD, Princeton University, 1985
• PostDoc, UC Berkeley, 1984-1988
• Research Interests
• Data mining
• Internet technologies
• High performance computing and networking
• Distributed computing

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Robert Grossman

• Director of the National Center of Data Mining at
  UIC
• Startups
• 1987-1989 Financial Sciences, Inc
• 1994-2005 Magnify, Inc (Data Mining Techniques
  and Software)
• 2001-present Open Data Partners, LLC (Customer
  relationship management, corporate data
  management, etc)

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Bing Liu

• Associate Professor
• PhD, U of Edinburgh, 1989
• Research Interests
• Web content mining, text mining
• Data mining and knowledge discovery
• Machine learning
• Projects
• Web Content Mining, Text Mining, and Search
• Opinion extraction, analysis and feature-based
  summarization
• Information Synthesis (or Knowledge Synthesis)
• Data and data record extraction from Web pages -
  automatic wrapper generation
• Web page template detection and noise removal -
  page segmentation and cleaning
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  (Classification, Interestingness)
• Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Examples

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Ouri E. Wolfson

• Richard and Loan Hill Professor
• Bio
• Math PhD, New York University, 1984
• Assistant Professor, TECHNION 1985-1989
• Research Scientist, Columbia University 1989-1991
• ACM Fellow
• Research Interests
• database systems, distributed systems, and
  mobile/pervasive computing

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Ouri E. Wolfson

• Projects
• Mobile Peer-to-Peer computing (Mobi-Dik) .
• Moving Objects Databases (DOMINO).
• Active Databases.
• Adaptive Replication.
• Semantic Multicast Intelligently Sharing
  Collaborative Sessions.

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Clement Yu

• Professor
• Ph.D. Cornell University, 1973
• Research Interest
• Database management
• Information retrieval
• Applications to HealthCare
• Projects
• Metasearch engines (Startup Webscalers)
• Reduction in drug name confusion (Startup
  PharmIR)
• Author name disambiguation

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Ashfaq Khokhar

• Professor
• PhD, University of Southern California, 1993
• Research Interests
• Distributed multimedia databases and networks
• Data mining and OLAP
• Parallel computation, architectures, and software
  systems

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Prasad Sistla

• Professor
• PhD, Harvard University, 1983
• Research Interests
• Formal Methods in Concurrent and Distributed
  Systems
• Semantics and Verification of Concurrent Programs
  
• Database Management Systems
• Retrieval for Multimedia Data
• Modeling and Querying Moving Objects

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Thanks!