Rares Vernica

[ra'-resh]

Graduate Student

Department of Computer Science
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
2099 Bren Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3435

Phone: 949-824-3011
Fax: 949-824-4056

email: use "rares" as the username and "ics.uci.edu"
as the domain name; do not forget to put the "@" between
the username and the domain name.

Adviser: Prof. Michael J. Carey and Prof. Chen Li
Research area: databases, search and data integration
Part of the Information Systems Group

Curriculum Vitae (CV) pdf

We are looking for an undergraduate or MS student for a research project. See announcement here.

Highlights
Projects
Publications
Hobby

Highlights

Summer 2007: Advanced to candidacy, PhD, University of California, Irvine;
Summer 2007: Intern at Microsoft Research - Data Management, Exploration and Mining Group (DMX);
Fall 2006: Advanced to candidacy, MS, University of California, Irvine;
Summer 2006: Intern at Yahoo! - Strategic Data Solutions;
Fall 2005: Graduate Student Fellowship, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIt²);
Fall 2005: Chair's Fellowship, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (UCI);
Fall 2004: BS, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania.

Projects

ASTERIX

Active, Scalable, Transactional Enterprise Repository for Information in XML;

Family Reunification

“help people find their loved ones during or after a disaster”;

Flamingo

“how to deal with errors and inconsistencies in information systems”;

Flamingo Package, source-code for approximate string matching;
Flamingo Toolkit, UDF functions for MySQL;
PSearch, prototype on fuzzy search on the University of California, Irvine campus directory, currently linked to the UCI Campus Directory, and featured in this UCI article.

Publications

Entity categorization over large document collections.
Venkatesh Ganti, Arnd Christian König, Rares Vernica
KDD 2008: 274-282.
pdf, ppt;
SEPIA: estimating selectivities of approximate string predicates in large Databases.
Liang Jin, Chen Li, Rares Vernica
VLDB J. 17(5): 1213-1229 (2008).
pdf, ppt, doi;
Implementation is available as part of the Flamingo Package;
Relaxing Join and Selection Queries.
Nick Koudas, Chen Li, Anthony K. H. Tung, Rares Vernica
VLDB 2006: 199-210.
pdf, ppt;
Implementation is available in the Query Relaxation Package.

Hobby

Kendo

Member All United States Kendo Federation (AUSKF), Southern California Kendo Federation (SCKF), Costa Mesa Kendo Dojo;
Rank 1 Kyu;
SCKF Fall Team Tournament, 2008 - 3rd place, Adult Kyu Team (photo).