Yasser Abdulaziz Altowim

• PhD Candidate in the Information Systems Group
• Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences
• University of California, Irvine

Education:

• Ph.D in Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, USA
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• B.S. in Computer Science , King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Awards:

• VLDB Travel Grant, 2014
• Four-year Scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia for Ph.D. study, 2008
• Two-year Scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia for M.S. study, 2007
• Academic Achievement from USC Office of International Services, 2008
• Second Class Honor Award from King Saud University for graduating with outstanding G.P.A., 2005

Research Interests:

• Data Quality
• Information Management
• Query Processing
• Data Storage Systems

Projects:

• SHERLOCK
• ASTERIX

Publications:

• Yasser Altowim, Sharad Mehrotra. Parallel Progressive Approach to Entity Resolution Using MapReduce. In ICDE, 2017.
• Abdulrahman Alsaudi, Mehdi Sadri, Yasser Altowim, Sharad Mehrotra. Adaptive Topic Follow-up on Twitter. In ICDE, 2017.
• Yasser Altowim, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotra. Progressive Approach to Relational Entity Resolution. In VLDB, 2014. [Conference Slide / Full Slide]
• Sattam Alsubaiee, Yasser Altowim, Hotham Altwaijry, Alexander Behm, Vinayak Borkar, Yingyi Bu, Michael Carey, Inci Cetindil, Madhusudan Cheelangi, Khurram Faraaz, Eugenia Gabrielova, Raman Grover, Zachary Heilbron, Young-Seok Kim, Chen Li, Guangqiang Li, Ji Mahn Ok, Nicola Onose, Pouria Pirzadeh, Vassilis Tsotras, Rares Vernica, Jian Wen, and Till Westmann. AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS. In VLDB, 2014.
• Sattam Alsubaiee, Yasser Altowim, Hotham Altwaijry, Alexander Behm, Vinayak R. Borkar, Yingyi Bu, Michael J. Carey, Raman Grover, Zachary Heilbron, Young-Seok Kim, Chen Li, Nicola Onose, Pouria Pirzadeh, Rares Vernica, and Jian Wen. ASTERIX: An Open Source System for "Big Data" Management and Analysis. In VLDB, 2012.
• Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Shahin Shayandeh, and Yasser Altowim. An Analysis of Two Cooperative Caching Techniques for Streaming Media in Residential Neighborhoods. In DMS, 2009.

Contact:

• 2081 Donald Bren Hall
• Department of Computer Science
• University of California, Irvine
• E-mail: yaltowim at ics dot uci dot edu