ABOUT ME
I joined the Infrastructure for Intelligent Information Systems group in IBM Research - Almaden after obtaining my PhD in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2008. My research interests lie in the broad area of data management, with emphasis on information extraction, information integration and data provenance.
At UC Santa Cruz, I was involved with the Database Research Group and the eWomen - Women in Engineering Group.
Prior to the Santa Cruz era, I received my BS in Computer Engineering from Politehnica University of Bucharest in 2003. While an undergrad, I worked for several Romanian IT companies, where I was involved in developing a wide range of applications - from web-based content management systems to computer graphics tools and online games.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT
PAST RESEARCH PROJECTS
Schema Integration
Debugging and Designing Schema Mappings with Data Examples
Computing the Core in Data Exchange
PUBLICATIONS
Domain Adaptation of Rule-based Annotators for Named-Entity Recognition Tasks
with R. Krishnamurthy, Y. Li, F. Reiss, S. Vaithyanathan
EMNLP 2010
Refining Information Extraction Rules using Data Provenance
with B. Liu, V. Chu, H. V. Jagadish, F. Reiss
IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 2010
Automatic Rule Refinement for Information Extraction
with B. Liu, V. Chu, H. V. Jagadish, F. Reiss
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 2010
SystemT: an Algebraic Approach to Declarative Information Extraction
with R. Krishnamurthy, Y. Li, S. Raghavan, F. Reiss, S. Vaithyanathan
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2010
Enterprise Information Extraction: Recent Developments and Open Challenges
slides
with Y. Li, S. Raghavan, F. Reiss
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) (Tutorial Track) 2010
Provenance in Databases: Why, How, and Where
with J. Cheney, W. Tan
Foundations and Trends in Databases 2009
Laconic Schema Mappings: Computing the Core with SQL Queries
with B. ten Cate, P. G. Kolaitis, W. Tan
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 2009
Interactive Generation of Integrated Schemas
with P. G. Kolaitis and L. Popa
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2008
MUSE: A System for Designing and Understanding Mappings
with B. Alexe, R. J. Miller, D. Pepper and W. Tan
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) (Demo Track) 2008
MUSE: Mapping Understanding and deSign by Example
with B. Alexe, R. J. Miller and W. Tan
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2008
Semi-automatic Schema Integration in Clio
with M. A. Hernandez, P. G. Kolaitis and L. Popa
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) (Demo Track) 2007
Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes
with W. Tan
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2006
SPIDER: a Schema mapPIng DEbugeR
with B. Alexe and W. Tan
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) (Demo Track) 2006
An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases
with D. Bhagwat, W. Tan and G. Vijayvargiya
VLDB Journal Vol. 14, No. 4, Nov. 2005
Special issue for selected papers from the VLDB 2004 conference
DBNotes: A Post-it System for Relational Databases based on Provenance
full version
with W. Tan and G. Vijayvargiya
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) (Demo Track) 2005
An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases
with D. Bhagwat, W. Tan and G. Vijayvargiya
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2004
LINKS
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