Sharad Mehrotra

Professor of Computer Science

Contact Information

2082 Bren Hall
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3425
USA

Office: ICS 424
Office Tel: +1(949)824-5975
Office Fax: +1(949)824-4056
E-mail: sharad@ ics dot uci dot edu

Office Hours

Thurs: 11-12 or by appointment via email.

Current Projects

RESCUE	Transforming ability of first responders to mitigate crisis through IT innovations
RESPONSHERE	Campus level multimodal testbed for creating sentient spaces
SAFIRE	Situational awareness for fire fighters
GDF	Adaptive self-tuning graph based data cleaning
SATWARE	Sensor middleware for sentient spaces
DAS	Data privacy on the cloud

Past Projects

Links

Personal Home Page

Publication List

Students (Past & Present)

Research Areas

Data Management Systems, Distributed Systems, Sensor-based Pervasive Systems, Situational Awareness, Data Quality, Data Privacy, Emergency Response Technologies

Research Centers

Center for Emergency Response Technologies (CERT)

California Institute Telecommunication & Information Technology (Calit2)

Information Systems Research Group (ISG)

Teaching Schedule (Spring 2010)

CS 122a : Introduction to data management (Tu & Thurs 9.30 to 11am)

CS 224: Advanced topics in Database Management (Wed. 3 to 6pm)

Biography

Sharad Mehrotra is a Professor in the School of Information and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine and Director of the  Center for Emergency Response Technologies (CERT) at UCI. He also serves as the Director and PI of the RESCUE project (Responding to Crisis and Unexpected Events) which, funded by NSF through its large ITR program, spans 7 schools and consists of 60 members. He is associated with the Cal-IT2 institute -- a multidisciplinary research facility spanning University of California, Irvine and University of California, San Diego. He is the recipient of Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award in 2005. Prior to joining UCI, me was a member of the faculty at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in the Department of Computer Science where he was the recipient of the C. W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. Mehrotra has also served as a Scientist at Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory immediately after graduating with a Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin(1988-1993).

Mehrotra's research expertise is in data management and distributed systems areas in which he has made many pioneering contributions. Two such contributions include the concept of "database as a service"  and "use of information retrieval techniques, particularly relevance feedback, in multimedia search". Mehrotra is a recipient of numerous best paper nominations and awards including  SIGMOD Best Paper award in 2001 for a paper entitled  "Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases", Best of VLDB 1994 submissions for a paper entitled "Concurrency Control in Hierarchical Multidatabase System", best paper award in DASFAA 2004 for the paper entitled "Efficient Execution of Aggregation Queries over Encrypted Databases", best paper award nomination for a paper entitled Neighborhoods: A framework for enabling web-based synchronous collaboration and hierarchical Navigation at HIICS, 1996, and a best student paper award at IEEE Workshop on Multimodal Sentient Computing: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems (WMSC 2007) held in conjunction with IEEE CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) 2007.

Mehrotra's current research focuses on building sentient spaces using multimodal sensors, data privacy, and data quality. Mehrotra's recent research, particularly, in the context of RESCUE & CERT has focused on situational awareness from multimodal input including conversational speech data. Many of his research contributions have been incorporated into software artifacts which are now in use at various first responder partner sites.

Selected Publications

Y. Rui, T. Huang, M. Ortgega and S. Mehrotra, "Relevance Feedback: A Power Tool in Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval". IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 8, No. 5, Pages 644-655, September, 1998. (over 1000 citations)

K. Chakrabarti, E. Keogh, M. Pazzani and S. Mehrotra, "Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases", ACM Transactions on Database Systems. TODS 27(2): 188-228 (2002) (SIGMOD best paper 2002)

H. Hacigumus, B. Iyer, C. Li and S. Mehrotra, "Executing SQL over Encrypted Data in Database- Service-Provider-Models ", ACM SIGMOD 2002 conference

S. Mehrotra, C. Butt , D. Kalashnikov, N. Venkatasubramanian, R. Rao, G. Chockalingam, R. Eguchi, B. Adams C. Huyck, Project RESCUE: Challenges in Responding to the Unexpected, SPIE Internet Imaging Conference, 2004

Dmitri Kalashnikov; Sharad Mehrotra. Domain-independent data cleaning via analysis of entity-relationship graph, In ACM Transactions on Database Systems (ACM TODS) 2006.

I. Lazaridis, S. Mehrotra, Optimization of Multi-version Expensive Predicates, ACM SIGMOD 2007.