Teaching

• Fall 2008, Database Systems(6.830)
• Fall 2007, Database Systems(6.830)
• Spring 2007, 6.033 (sections)
• Fall 2006, Database Systems(6.830)
• Spring 2006, 6.033 (sections)
• Fall 2005, Database Systems(6.830)
• Spring 2005, 6.033 (lectures, with Hari Balakrishnan)
• Fall 2004, Database Systems (6.893)
• Spring 2004, 6.033 (sections)

Research

Recent and current research projects and interests include:

• H-Store, a next generation high-performance OLTP engine.

• The CarTel networking and data management system for mobile sensor networks.

• C-Store, a column-oriented high performance database system for warehouse and semantic web applications.

• WaveScope, a signal-oriented stream processing system.

• The MACAQUE project, which focuses on identifying ways to make data collected from sensor networks more reliable and useful. This includes modeling sensor network data, for purposes of identifying outliers and making future predictions about sensor behavior, bounding the error of queries in the face of loss, and developing techniques to ensure reliable delivery of important data items. See recent papers in CIDR 2005, VLDB 2004, and ICDE 2005.

• Developing novel query processing and optimization techniques for sensor networks and other acquisitional systems.

• TinyDB (a part of TinyOS.)
• Aurora/Borealis stream processor.
• TelegraphCQ continuous query processor.

Students

• Alvin Cheung
• Thomer Gil
• Adam Marcus
• Yuan Mei
• Daniel Myers
• Ryan Newton
• Arvind Thiagarajan
• Eugene Wu
• Yang Zhang

• Michael Craig
• Lev Popov

• Daniel Abadi (Yale)

• Kevin Emery (Thesis: "Distributed Eventing Architecture: RFID and Sensors in a Supply Chain" [PDF])
• Michael Farry
• Miguel Ferreira (Thesis: "Compression and Query Execution within Column Oriented Databases" [PDF])
• George Huo
• Jon Hyler (Thesis: "An Augmentation Algorithm for Improving Longevity in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks" [PDF])
• Edmond Lau
• Umberto Malesci (Thesis: "A Measurement-based Analysis of the Interaction among MAC, Network and Application Layers in Wireless Sensor Networks" [PDF])
• Timur Tokmouline

Publications and Talks

Awards and Honors

• C. V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award, UC Berkeley, 2003
• VLDB 2004 Best Paper Award
• NSF CAREER Award (Project Page), 2005
• MIT TR35 Outstanding Researcher Under the Age of 35, 2005
• MobiCom Best Paper Award, 2006
• SenSys Best Demo Award, 2006
• Sloan Fellowship, 2007
• IBM Facutly Development Award, 2007
• VLDB Best Paper Award, 2007

Miscellaneous Technical Articles

• Article describing How to build a High-Performance Data Warehouse, with David DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker.

• Report summarizing the (non)effect of double-blind reviewing on acceptance rates in database conferences since the adoption of a double-blind process in SIGMOD 2001.

• I am a contributor to The Database Column, a blog about database technology and research.

Community Activities

• SIGMOD 2004 Demo Committee
• OSDI 2004 Program Committee
• Organizer of the 2004 DMSN Workshop on Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks held with VLDB 2004.
• CIDR 2005 Program Committee
• ICDE 2005 Program Committee
• SIGMOD 2005 Program Committee
• VLDB 2005 Program Committee
• Organizer of the 2005 DMSN Workshop on Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks held with VLDB 2005.
• IPSN 2006 Program Committee
• SIGMOD 2006 Demo Committee
• KDD 2006 Program Committee
• SenSys 2006 Program Committee
• SenSys 2006 Publications Chair
• SIGMOD 2007 Program Committee
• CIDR 2007 Program Committee
• DCOSS 2007 Systems Subcommitte Program Chair
• VLDB 2007 Program Committee
• VLDB 2008 Industrial Track Program Committee
• SIGMOD 2008 Program Committee
• IPSN 2008 PC Co-Chair
• Editorial Board Member, Internet Computing
• Editorial Board Member, Transactions on Sensor Networks