Scholarship and Biography

I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brandeis University. My research is concentrated in Systems, and in particular, large-scale data management including databases and query optimization, and niche data management systems such as columnar data management architectures and streaming data management systems.


Currently, my group is working on applications of software engineering principles to the design of Database Management System (DBMS) components. As well, we are interested in the management of data resulting from human-in-the-loop complex processes.

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Honors

National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Fellowship
National Research Council Canada (Canada, Ottawa) - NRC, 1990 - 1994
Information Technology Transfer Award
National Science Foundation (United States, Arlington) - NSF, 2000
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award
National Science Foundation (United States, Arlington) - NSF, 2000 - 2001
Bernstein Faculty Fellowship
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2003 - 2004
Program Committee Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering
IEEE Computer Society (United States, Washington D.C.) - CS, 2005
Invited Visiting Researcher to Jim Gray Labs at Microsoft Research in Madison, WI
Microsoft (United States, Redmond), 2011
10 Year Best Paper Award for "C-Store: A Column-Oriented DBMS"
Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc. , 2015

Organizational Affiliations

Associate Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Michtom School of Computer Science, Brandeis University

Education

Brown University
Ph.D.
Concordia University
M.S.
McGill University
B.Ed.