Rares Vernica, PhD - University of California, Irvine

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PhD received in Summer 2011

Disertation: Efficient Processing of Set-Similarity Joins on Large Clusters
Advisers: Prof. Michael J. Carey and Prof. Chen Li

My research area is large-scale data management and data-intensive computing. Since September 2011 I am a Research Scientist at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA.

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

ASTERIX

Developing a highly scalable parallel platform for semi-structured data management and analysis;

Source code for Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce;

Family Reunification

Developing data integration, indexing, and search techniques to help people find their loved ones during or after a disaster;

Haiti and Chile Earthquake, online services and data for finding missing people;
UCI article featuring the Haiti Earthquake service;

Flamingo

Developing data cleaning techniques to deal with errors and inconsistencies in information systems;

Flamingo Package, open source library for approximate string matching;
Flamingo Toolkit, open source UDF library for approximate string matching for MySQL database;
PSearch, UC Irvine online directory search service;
UCI article featuring the PSearch service.

Adaptive MapReduce using Situation-Aware Mappers.
Rares Vernica, Andrey Balmin, Kevin S. Beyer, Vuk Ercegovac.
EDBT 2012
paper slides
Efficient Processing of Set-Similarity Joins on Large Clusters.
Rares Vernica.
Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2011.
Advisers: Prof. Michael J. Carey and Prof. Chen Li
paper
CIRCUMFLEX: A Scheduling Optimizer for MapReduce Workloads Involving Shared Scans.
Joel Wolf, Deepak Rajan, Kirsten Hildrum, Rohit Khandekar, Sujay Parekh, Kun-Lung Wu, Andrey Balmin, Rares Vernica.
LADIS 2011. (Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware, collocated with VLDB 2011)
paper doi
ASTERIX: Towards a Scalable, Semistructured Data Platform for Evolving World Models.
Alexander Behm, Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey, Chen Li, Nicola Onose, Rares Vernica, Alin Deutsch, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Vassilis J. Tsotras
Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, Special Issue on Cloud Computing, 2011
paper doi
Hyracks: A Flexible and Extensible Foundation for Data-Intensive Computing
Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey, Raman Grover, Nicola Onose, Rares Vernica
ICDE 2011
paper (long version) doi
AKYRA: Efficient Keyword-Query Cleaning in Relational Databases.
Rares Vernica, Chen Li
Technical Report, University of California, Irvine, 2011
paper
Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce.
Rares Vernica, Michael J. Carey, Chen Li
SIGMOD 2010
paper (long version) doi slides (long version) poster source code
Efficient Top-k Algorithms for Fuzzy Search in String Collections.
Rares Vernica, Chen Li
KEYS 2009: 9-14. (Workshop on Keyword Search on Structured Data, collocated with SIGMOD 2009)
paper doi slides
Entity Categorization Over Large Document Collections.
Venkatesh Ganti, Arnd Christian König, Rares Vernica
KDD 2008: 274-282.
paper doi slides
SEPIA: Estimating Selectivities of Approximate String Predicates in Large Databases.
Liang Jin, Chen Li, Rares Vernica
VLDB J. 17(5): 1213-1229 (2008).
paper doi slides source code
Relaxing Join and Selection Queries.
Nick Koudas, Chen Li, Anthony K. H. Tung, Rares Vernica
VLDB 2006: 199-210.
paper slides source code

2010: Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Winner in the Web Information Management area - UCI article
2009: Microsoft Student Travel Award for KEYS 2009, Workshop on Keyword Search on Structured Data, collocated with SIGMOD 2009
2005-2006: Chair's Fellowship, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
2005: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit²) Fellowship
2005: Second place, Pentalog programming contest, Brasov, Romania
1999 - 2004: Merit-Based Scholarship, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

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