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: database and information systems,
particularly data cleansing
Part of the Information Systems Group

Curriculum Vitae (CV) pdf

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

A Highly Scalable Parallel Platform for Semistructured Data Management and Analysis;

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

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)
pdf, pdf-slides, doi;
Entity categorization over large document collections.
Venkatesh Ganti, Arnd Christian König, Rares Vernica
KDD 2008: 274-282.
pdf, ppt, doi;
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 Dan;
SCKF Fall Team Tournament, 2008 - 3rd place, Adult Kyu Team (photo).