If you are interested in database research, you can
contact me. I am always looking for new students. I expect you to have a good
knowledge of computer science (algorithms, software engineering and systems),
and foremost, I expect you to have the "right" attitude (work hard).
Current Graduate Students
- Vinisha Lokesh
- George Corser
- Fortune Hlalo
- Arunlal Kalyanasundaram
Past graduate students at WPI
- Ming Li, PhD. Currently working at IBM, CA
- Ming Jiang, MS. Currently working at IBM, MA
- Yaobin Tang, MS
- Mingzhu Wei, PhD (to be completed), Currently working at Oracle, NH
- Maged El Sayed, PhD - I was the co-advisor. Primary advisor was Elke
Rundensteiner. Currently working as a faculty in Egypt.
- Hong Su, PhD - I was the co-advisor. Primary advisor was Elke
Rundensteiner. Currently working at Oracle, CA
- Ling Wang, PhD - I was the co-advisor. Primary advisor was Elke
Rundensteiner. Currently working at IBM
- Song Wang, PhD - I was the co-advisor. Primary advisor was Elke
Rundensteiner. Currently working at HP
- Di Wang, MS
- Sowmya Karunakaran, MS.
- Rekha Rani, MS.
- Vidhi Vyas (MS student, Transferred)
- Trupti N. Sanikop, MS
Past Undergraduate Students at WPI
- Philip Hanson: Fall 2008 - Spring 2009. Research on XML processing
and View Maintenance
- Berk Birand: Summer 2007 - Spring 2008, Research on XPath-to-SQL
optimization, SAX-Lite parser
- Niva Shreshtha, Jie Liang: MQP (Fall 2007 - Spring 2008)
with researchers from Harvard Forest) - Vernal Pool Database
- Jennifer Schweers: Summer 2004 (Undergraduate Research Summer
Fellowship), 2004-05 (RDC grant)
- Rich Omar, Rich Tamalavitch (MQP): MQP project August 2004 - March
2005
- Min Song, Jinho Kang (MQP): MQP project August 2004 -
March 2005
- Rich Nordin (MQP):
Translation of XML queries over XML views of relational databases to
SQL, Completed: March 2004. Co-advisor is Dan Dougherty.
- Andrei Vasilescu: Research on translating inserts specified over views
- Bogomil Tselkov, Nikhil Sreenath: Research on SAX-Lite, a light weight SAX
parser that does not check well-formedness
- Andrei Vasilescu, Alin Sirbu: IQP on health of DB research
- Greg Labonte, Aaron McDevitt: MQP on XML views of relational databases