We are looking for an undergraduate or MS student for a
research project. See
announcement here.
- 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
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Graduate Student Fellowship, California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information
Technology (CalIt2);
- Fall 2005
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Chair's Fellowship, Department of Computer Science, University
of California, Irvine (UCI);
- Fall 2004
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BS, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania.
- ASTERIX
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Active, Scalable, Transactional Enterprise Repository for
Information in XML;
- Family Reunification
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“help people find their loved ones during or after a
disaster”;
- Flamingo
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“how to deal with errors and inconsistencies in
information systems”;
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Entity categorization over large document collections.
Venkatesh Ganti, Arnd Christian König, Rares Vernica
KDD 2008: 274-282.
pdf,
ppt;
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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;
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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.
- Kendo
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Member All United States Kendo Federation (AUSKF),
Southern California Kendo Federation (SCKF), Costa Mesa
Kendo Dojo;
- Rank 1 Kyu;
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SCKF Fall Team Tournament, 2008 - 3rd place, Adult Kyu Team
(photo).