Yannis Papakonstantinou, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD

Contact: 858 8221612

Email: Yannis@cs.ucsd.edu

Education

march 1997

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University.

Thesis Title: Query Processing in Heterogeneous Information Systems.

march 1994

M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University.

SEP 1991 – SEP 1992

Graduate studies at University of Maryland, College Park.

november 1990

Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.

 

Work Experience

october 2006 - PRESENT

Co-founder, app2you Inc.

July 2007 - Present

Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD

JULY 2003 – June 2007

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD.

January 2006 – june 2007

Consulting services to Fish, Richardson, LLP, on patent litigation case.

September 2004 – December 2005

Advisor/Consultant for Skyler Technology Inc., on Intellectual Property, technology and product management issues.

JUNE 2003 – March 2005

Consultant for BEA Corp., on Intellectual Property and technology issues.

JULY 1997 - JUNE 2003 (On Leave January 2000 - December 2000)

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD.

july 2001 – JUNE 2003

Chief Scientist, Enosys Software Inc.

august 2000 – june 2001

Interim CEO, Enosys Software Inc.

january 2000 —august 2000

VP of Engineering, Enosys Software Inc.

march 2000, july 2001

Lecturer. Taught one-week courses on "Information Management in the Future: Data Warehousing and Mediation" at Hong Kong University.

1998-1999

Consultant for Indicast Inc., and HelixTech Inc.

JUNE 1999 — JULY 1999

Visiting Research Associate, Computer Science Department, Stanford University.

OCTober 1996 — JUNE 1997

Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD.

JUNE 1997 — JULY 1997

Visiting Research Associate, Computer Science Department, Stanford University.

JUNE 1994 — OCTober 1995

Supplemental Research Associate, IBM Almaden Research Center, Database Group. Full-time employee during JUN 94—SEP 94. Part-time employee from OCT 94—OCT 95. Worked on Rufus (a manager of semi-structured information) with Dr. Allen Luniewski, and on Garlic (a heterogeneous multimedia information system) with Dr. Laura Haas.

JANuary 1993 — SEP 1996

Research Assistant, Database Group, Stanford University. Worked on the TSIMMIS project (integration of heterogeneous information sources).

SEPtember 1991 — SEP 1992

Research Fellow, Database Group, University of Maryland at College Park. Worked under UMCP Systems Research Center Fellowship. Worked on cached views, cached queries, and data warehousing [8].

 

Professional and Academic Activities

·       Program Committee Member of the Very Large Databases (VLDB) Conf., 2008 in “Core Database Technology” track.

·       Program Committee Member of the Very Large Databases (VLDB) Conf., 2007 in “Infrastructure for Information Systems” track.

·       Program Committee Member of the Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI), 2007.

·       Program Committee Member of NetDB (Networking Meets Databases) Workshop, 2007; co-located with USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).

·       Program Committee Member of NSF-sponsored Workshop on Information Integration, 2006.

·       Program Committee Member of ACM SIGMOD Conf., 2006.

·       Vice Program Chair of IEEE Data Engineering Conf. (ICDE), 2006, in charge of “Semi-structured data, metadata, and XML”

·       Program Committee member of the International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives (XIME-P), 2005.

·       Program Committee Member of the Very Large Databases (VLDB) Conference, 2005, in “Infrastructure for Information Systems” track.

·       Program Committee Member of the ACM Principles Of Database Systems (PODS) Conference, 2005.

·       Program Committee member of the IEEE Data Engineering Conf. (ICDE), 2005, in “Semi-Structured Data and XML” track.

·       Founding Co-Chair of International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives (XIME-P), 2004, held in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004.

·       Program Committee member of the Very Large DataBases (VLDB) Conference, 2004, in “Core Database Technology” track.

·       Program Committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services, 2004.

·       Editorial Review Board member of the Journal of Database Management, 2000-2003.

·       Participant/Speaker at National Science Foundation Workshop on “Facilitating Microbial Research Through Advanced Data Management Infrastructure”, 2003.

·       Vice Program Chair of IEEE Data Engineering Conf. (ICDE), 2004, in charge of “Semi-structured data, metadata, and XML”

·       General Chair of ACM SIGMOD Conf., 2003.

·       Active Member of the W3C XML Query working group, 2000-2002.

·       Board member of Enosys Software, Inc., 2000-2003.

·       Program Committee member of the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), 2003.

·       Program Committee member of the IEEE Data Engineering Conference (ICDE), 2003.

·       Co-Chair of Program Committee of the International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), 2002, held in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2002.

·       Program Committee member of the IEEE Data Engineering (ICDE) Conference, 2002.

·       Program Committee member of the WWW11 Conference Committee, 2002, Languages and Standards track.

·       Co-chair of the “Innovative applications of Information Retrieval & Data Management” group at the NSF IDM (Information and Data Management) PI Workshop, 2001.

·       Program Committee member of the Very Large DataBases (VLDB) Conference, 2001.

·       NSF Review Panel member, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.

·       Program Committee member of the International Conference on Knowledge and Data Engineering (CIKM), 2001.

·       Program Committee member of the “Data Integration over the Web” workshop, held in conjunction with the Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 2001.

·       Program Committee member of the WWW10 Conference Committee, 2001, Languages and Standards track.

·       Program Committee member of the 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2001).

·       Program Committee member of the International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), 2000.

·       Program Committee member of IEEE Data Engineering Conf. (ICDE), 2000.

·       Program Committee member of Web Information and Data Management Workshop, 1999.

·       Associate Editor of Database Reviews Online since 1998.

·       Member of the OptIPuter Frontier Advisory Board (large NSF ITR project, PI’d by Prof. Larry Smarr).

·       Co-chair of the “WWW, Internet, and Wireless Era” group at the NSF IDM (Information and Data Management) PI Workshop, 1999.

·       Program Committee member of ACM SIGMOD Conf., 1999.

·       Program Committee member of Web Information and Data Management Workshop, 1998.

·       Program Committee member of Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems Conf., 1998.

·       Chair of IBM CASCON Data Integration Workshop, 1997.

·       Referee for ACM Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Database Systems, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Systems, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM SIGMOD Conf., ACM Principles of Database Systems Conf., Very Large Databases Conf., Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, SIGMOD Record, and many workshops.

 

University Service

·       Member of the Graduate Admissions committee 97-98, 98-99, 02-03, 03-04.

·       Vice chair of the Graduate Admissions committee, 04-05. In 03-05 led effort towards CSE’s fully paperless graduate admissions process.

·       Vice Chair of the MS Graduate committee, 04-05.

·       Member of “Information Technology Program” committee, 03-05.

·       Participant at School of Engineering Retreats 2004, 2005. Gave talk on proposed “Information Technology Program” in 2005 Retreat.

·       Member of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) since 1996.

·       Member of Knowledge and Data Engineering lab of CalIT2, since 2001. Set up partnership between CalIT2 and Enosys Software.

·       CSE Academic Senate Representative 01-02, 02-03.

·       Member of Computing Support Recruiting Committee, 01-02.

·       Member of the ad-hoc committee on Graduate Program Revision, 01-02. In charge of the revision of the CSE Research Exam.

·       Member of Equipment Committee 98-99.

·       Member of the Distinguished Lectures Committee 97-98.

·       Organizer of the Faculty Research Seminar 96-97.

Honors and Awards

2006

ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award Honorable Mention for the work “Interactive Query Formulation on Web Service-Accessed Sources”

1998—2002

National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

1995—1996

IBM Almaden Cooperative Fellowship.

1991—1992

Systems Research Center Fellowship, University of Maryland at College Park.

1996

[13] Selected in Best of Parallel and Distributed Information Systems Conf.

 

Contracts and Grants

 

Title

Granting Agency

Amount of Total Award

Time period of contract/grant

Role, e.g. PI, co-investigator, project leader, etc

III:Next Generation XML Mediators

National Science Foundation

$450,000

September 2007 – August 2010

Role: PI

XML-based LAV Integrated Views

UCSD

10,000

October 2006 – December 2006

Role: PI

App2you: Customizable Web Applications for Everyone

von Liebig Center for Technology Commercialization

$50,000

June 2006 – May 2007

Role: PI

Efficient Execution of Multiple XQueries on Stream Data

UC MICRO match to proposal supported by Tarari Inc.

$25,314

SepteMber 2005 – December 2006

Role: PI

Toward a Distributed Information System for Marine Biology and Limnology

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$1,760,000

January 2005

Role: Senior Personnel

PI: Dr Peter Arzberger (SDSC)

Co-PI: Dr Amarnath Gupta (SDSC)

Share: $156,000

ITR: Constraint-based Knowledge Systems for Grids, Digital Libraries and Persistent Archives

National Science Foundation, Information and Intelligent Systems Division

$737,400

September 2004 – August 2007

Role: Senior Personnel

PI: Dr Reagan Moore (SDSC)

Co-PI: Dr Arcot Rajasekar (SDSC)

Share: $120,000

XML Query Processing

Tarari Inc.

$25,968

September 2004

Role: PI

ITR: Querying Sequentially Accessed XML Data

National Science Foundation, Information and Intelligent Systems Division

$375,000

AUGUST 2003 – JULY 2006

Role: PI

Co-PIs: Prof. Alin Deutsch, Prof. Bertram Ludaescher, Prof. Victor Vianu (all UCSD)

US-France Cooperative Research (INRIA): XML-Based Web Services Static Analysis and Computational Aspects

National Science Foundation, Office of International Science and Engineering

$36,000

DECEMBER 2003- DECEMBER 2006

Role: Co-PI

PI: Prof. Victor Vianu (UCSD)

GEON - A Research Project to Create Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences

National Science Foundation ITR; GEO, CISE/ACIR directorates

$3,750,000

October 2002 – september 2007

Role: Senior Personnel

PI: Dr. Chaitan Baru (SDSC)

Share: $277,000

World Infrastructure Security Environment

US Air Force Rome Labs

$725,000

june 2002 – march 2003

Role: Senior Personnel

PI: Prof. Sid Karin (CSE)

Share: ~$120,000

Information Integration Testbed (I2T)

National Science Foundation, Digital Government program

$720,000

MARCH 2000 - MARCH 2004

Role: Co-PI

PI: Dr. Chaitan Baru (SDSC)

Share: $180,000

NPACI, Data Intensive Computing Thrust Area

National Science Foundation, NPACI

$232,000

SEPTEMBER 1999 –  AUGUST 2003

Role: Participant of NPACI.

CAREER: Querying Heterogeneous and Multimedia Sources

National Science Foundation, Information and Data Management program

$239,999 + $10,000 (REU Supplement)

MAY 1998-APRIL 2002

Candidate was the sole PI (100% share)

Integration of Internet Sources

National Science Foundation, Information and Data Management program

$239,860

SEPtember 1997 - AUGUST 2000

Candidate was the sole PI (100% share)

Multimedia Information Systems

UC MICRO

$34,500

AUGust 1997 – AUGUST 1998

Co-PI of PI Prof. Venkat Rangan

 

 

Invited Talks, Tutorials, and Panel Presentations (outside UCSD)

March 2008

“XML Querying and Integration: As the dust settles”; keynote talk at the DATAX 2008 Workshop.

September 2007

Panel on “Performance Evaluation and Experimental Assessment” at the VLDB Conference.

September 2005

“From Enterprise Information Integration to Community-based Mediation”; talk given at University of Chicago.

September 2005

“The Case for Off-Shoring R&D Activities to Greece”; invited talk given at Chicago during the Symposium for “Technology and Investment in Greece”.

August 2005

“Data-Oriented Middleware: The Internet Meets Databases”; keynote talk given at Hellenic Data Management Symposium.

May 2005

Panel on “Technology Entrepreneurship in San Diego”; organized by the Northwestern University/Kellogg School of Management Alumni Association of San Diego.

April 2005

“Towards the Convergence of Structured Querying and Text Search”; talk given at University of California, Santa Barbara and IBM Almaden.

April 2005

“XQuery Midflight: Emerging Database-Oriented Paradigms”, w/ Ioana Manolescu; tutorial given at IEEE Data Engineering (ICDE) Conference, Tokyo, Japan.

December 2004

“Community-Based Mediation: Interactive Source and Client registration”; talk given at Athens University of Economics and Business and at Politecnico di Milano.

October 2004

“Emerging Trends and Future Research Directions in Information Data Management for Government and Industry Applications”; talk given at 2004 National Science Foundation Information and Data Management Workshop. 

December 2003, April 2004

“XML-based Mediation”; talk given at University of California at Los Angeles and National Technical University of Athens.

March 2004

Panel on “Distributed Management of Data and Services: The Challenge of the Webs” at the EDBT Conference.

October 2003

“The Intersection of Database and Internet Technologies”; Talk given at the National Science Foundation Workshop on “Facilitating Microbial Research Through Advanced Data Management Infrastructure”.

October 2003

Panel on “Challenges in Data Management and Information Retrieval” at the National Science Foundation Workshop on “Facilitating Microbial Research Through Advanced Data Management Infrastructure”.

September 2002, October 2002, August 2003

“Issues in XML Mediators”; Talks given at University of California at Berkeley, IBM CASCON Conference (Toronto), INRIA (Paris), University of Athens, and University of Crete.

july 2002

“Data Integration: The Need, the Challenges, and the Approaches”, Plenary Talk given at the 2002 International Conference on Information Systems and Engineering.

Febru