News Archive

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 name 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)
This is the most prestigious technical award in data mining. For more information, read KDnuggets' article about the award and Prof. Han's career achievements.

Chang, Han, and Zhou win IBM Faculty Awards (7/27/2004)
Three DAISers--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 research on the use of trust negotiation on computational grids.

First Midwest DB Research Symposium (3/29/2004)
The First Midwest Database Research Symposium took place on April 10 at UI-Chicago. Over 100 graduate students and faculty from 8 nearby universities attended.

Spring 2004 Qual Format Change (1/7/2004)
Spring '04 is the first time that DAIS will offer its own separate qualifying exam. Format Details

ACM Dissertation Award Winner (12/19/2003)
DAIS faculty member AnHai Doan has won the 2003 ACM Dissertation Award, marking the first time the award has gone to a database researcher.

Doan Wins U of Wash. Dissertation Award (1/13/2004)
AnHai Doan was recently named an Edward Chan Memorial Dissertation Award 2003 winner by the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering at the Univ. of Washington. The award is given to the writers of the best two dissertations each year.

Announcing New ACM Fellow (12/19/2003)
Professor Jiawei Han has recently been elected an ACM Fellow.

UIUC Web Integration Repository (11/8/2003)
Kevin Chang and his students, Bin He, Chengkai Li, and Zhen Zhang, have created the UIUC Web Integration Repository, which maintains datasets and tasks for hundreds of Web databases, to facilitate research on large-scale information integration over the deep Web.

New ITR Grants (10/3/2003)
The competition was intense for NSF's ITR grants this year, with thousands of proposals received in the small, medium, and large ITR categories. When the dust settled, DAIS faculty had garnered four ITR grants, including one in the "large" category, two in the "medium" category, and one in the "small" category. Details

Graduating Students
Jonghyun Lee, Xiaosong Ma, and Ting Yu will all receive their doctoral degrees this year. Xiaosong and Ting have already joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. Jonghyun is staying on as a post doctoral researcher this year.

New DAIS Qual
Starting in the Fall 2003 semester, graduate students working in the database and information systems area will take a new DAIS-specific qualifying exam.

New Courses
Three new courses have added to the curriculum: Intro to Text Information Systems, Intro to Data Warehousing and Data Mining, and Data Mining Principles and Algorithms. The courses are currently being taught as CS 397 and CS 497 courses until the new course numbers, CS 310, CS 312, and CS 412 (respectively), are approved.

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