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R. Sinha Receives CSE Fellowship (5/12/06)
Congratulations to Rishi Sinha for receiving a Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship
for 2006-7, for his work on managing scientific data.
Doan at Wisconsin Next Year (5/10/06)
AnHai Doan has taken a leave of absence to be at the University of Wisconsin next year.
Good luck, AnHai!
Midwest Database Research Symposium to Be Held at UIUC on April 15 (4/6/06)
Please join us at the Siebel Center for this year's
Midwest Database Research Symposium. Send email to the organizers if you need overnight accomodations.
DAIS Students Win ICDE06 Paper Award (4/6/06)
Congratulations to Hector Gonzalez, Jiawei Han, Xiaolei Li, and Diego Klabjan,
whose paper entitled
Warehousing and analysis for massive RFID data sets
has won the best student paper award at ICDE06.
X. Ma
Receives NSF CAREER Award (1/24/06)
Recent DAIS graduate Xiaosong Ma, now a professor at North Carolina State
University, has
received a 2006 NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations, Xiaosong!
KDD05
Award for DAIS Students (11/21/05)
The paper Summarizing itemset patterns: A profile-based approach, by DAIS
group members X. Yan, H. Cheng, J. Han, and D. Xin, received the Best Student
Paper Runner-Up award at the 2005 KDD conference.
DAIS Group to Graduate 5 PhD Students This Year
(11/20/2005)
We are pleased to announce
the upcoming graduation of 5 PhD students from the DAIS group (profiled to the right of this column). Please contact us if you are looking for an excellent new hire for your department!
Zhou and Students Receive SOSP 2005 Best Paper Award
(11/7/2005)
DAIS professor YuanYuan Zhou and her students have won the best paper award at SOSP 2005 for their paper entitled "Rx: Treating Bugs as Allergies, a Safe Method for Surviving Software Failures."
Rx offers a way to partially roll back buggy programs and rerun them in an environment that has been altered to remove the "allergen" that triggered the bug.
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YuanYuan Zhou Wins DoE Early Career Award
(9/19/2005)
DAIS professor YuanYuan Zhou is a new recipient of the Department of Energy's Early Career Award. The award will fund her work on storage.
Kevin Chang Receives IBM Faculty Award
(9/19/2005)
DAIS professor Kevin Chang has been selected to receive the highly competitive 2005 IBM Faculty Award.
X. Ma Wins DoE Early Career Award
(8/29/2005)
Recent DAIS graduate Xiaosong Ma has received the Department of Energy's Early Career Award. Xiaosong is currently a professor at North Carolina
State University with a joint appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working on management of scientific data.
Han Wins IEEE Award
(7/8/2005)
Jiawei Han is the 2004 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award for
"outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer
and information science and engineering or computer technology."
Zhai Wins 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
(6/15/2005)
ChengXiang Zhai is one of 58 recipients of the US Government's highest honor for scientists and engineers at the beginning of their independent research careers.
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Zhou Wins 2005 Anita Borg Early Career Award
(5/15/2005)
YuanYuan Zhou has won the Anita Borg Early Career Award from the Computing Research Association in recognition of her research contributions and her contributions to the profession. Read more
Zhou Papers Among IEEE Micro's Top Picks for 2004
(1/15/2005)
Two papers by YuanYuan Zhou and her students are among the 14 papers selected by IEEE Micro for their Top Picks from Computer Architecture for the past year. Read more
SIGIR 2004
Best Paper Award
(8/6/2004)
Hui Fang, Tao Tao, and ChengXiang Zhai received the SIGIR 2004 Best
Paper Award for their paper "A Formal Study of Information Retrieval
Heuristics."
Ouri Wolfson to be new Affiliate Prof
(8/3/2004)
Ouri Wolfson of the
University of Illinois at Chicago has been appointed to position as
Affiliate Professor in the CS department at UIUC, effective August
16.
Doan named Alumnus of the Year
(7/29/2004)
AnHai Doan was named 2004's Alumnus of the Year by the College of
Engineering and Applied Science at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Prof. Doan received his Master's degree from UWM in 1996.
Jiawei Han
wins
2004 SIGKDD Innovations Award
(7/27/2004)
Jiawei Han has received the most prestigious technical award in data mining.
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Chang,
Han, and Zhou win IBM Faculty Awards
(7/27/2004)
Three DAIS faculty members--Kevin Chang, Jiawei Han, and Yuanyuan Zhou--were
selected to receive the highly competitive 2004 IBM Faculty
Development Awards.
Ting Yu
wins Outstanding Thesis Award
(7/23/2004)
Ting Yu won the CS
dept.'s 2004
David J. Kuck Outstanding Thesis Award for his PhD
thesis entitled “Automated Trust Establishment In Open
Systems." Ting, one of Marianne Winslett's former students, is
now an assistant professor at North Carolina State University.
Three NSF
Career Awardees
(6/22/2004)
Junior faculty AnHai Doan, Chengxiang Zhai, and Yuanyuan Zhou have
just received NSF Career Awards. Congratulations!
NCSA
Faculty Fellowship
(6/22/2004)
Professor Marianne Winslett has been named a participant in the NCSA
Faculty Fellowship Program next year. The award will support grad.
student Adam Lee's trust negotiation research.
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About Us
Ranked number 6 in the world by US News and World Report, the Database and Information Systems Laboratory
(DAIS) conducts fundamental and cutting-edge research in databases, data mining, Web mining, information retrieval, and natural language
processing. Current topics include:
- Data integration and schema matching
- Exploring and integrating the Deep Web
- Information security and privacy
- Mining data streams and sequential and semi-structured data
- OS support for storage systems
- Text retrieval and mining
- Bioinformatics
- Management of scientific data
- Top-k query processing
Graduating Students
We are pleased to announce the impending graduation of five of our PhD students, who will soon be interviewing for research positions. Please contact us if you are looking for an excellent researcher for your department! The students and their research communities:
- Bin He has been working with Kevin Chang on schema matching for information integration. Bin is the chief architect and a primary system-builder of the Metaquerier project, which has been widely demoed and is now being licensed to outside organizations. You can find Bin's work in CIDR, SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD, CACM, and TODS.
- Zhenmin Li has been working with YuanYuan Zhou on applying data mining to improve software robustness. Zhenmin was one of the two primary authors of an ASPLOS 2004 paper that was featured in IEEE Micro as one of the 14 best papers from architecture conferences that year; you can also find his work in OSDI, FSE, FAST, and ICDCS.
- Feng Qin has been working with YuanYuan Zhou on OS support for building dependable software. His paper on that topic was chosen as one of the best at SOSP05. You can also find his work in HPCA and his joint work in ISCA and Micro.
- Xifeng Yan has been working with Jiawei Han on mining information from graphs, bioinformatics, and software bug mining. Xifeng has two invited papers in TODS and one in the Machine Learning Journal, an honor usually reserved for top papers at top conferences; and his KDD05 paper received the best student paper runner-up award. You can also find Xifeng's work at SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, SDM, ICDM, PKDD, ISMB, and FSE.
- Pin Zhou has been working with YuanYuan Zhou on hardware support for improving software robustness. You can find her work in ISCA, Micro, and ASPLOS, and two of her papers were featured in IEEE Micro as being among the 14 best papers from architecture conferences in 2004.
da·is
(d   s)
1. A platform raised above the floor at one end of a hall or room,
as in a banquet room, classroom, etc. 2. The database and
information systems researchers at UIUC.
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