Advanced Data Management Technologies Laboratory

Prof. Alexandros Labrinidis is elected Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGMOD, to serve a four-year term (July 2009 - June 2013). Congratulations, Alex!

Qinglan Li, a graduate student in the ADMT Lab, is the winner of the Poster Competition during GradExpo 2009. Her poster, entitled "User-Centric Annotation Management for Biological Data" was voted as best poster by a panel of judges from various other departments. Congratulations Qinglan!

More info about this work in our SSDBM 2008 paper.

This project is part of the Center for Modeling Pulmonary Immunity.

Come and visit us at the poster session of today's GradExpo, taking place at the William Pitt Union. Out group is participating this year with four posters. Here are the titles:

• Panickos Neophytou - Towards Continuous Workflow Enactment Systems
• Lory Al-Moakar, Christine Chung, Shenoda Guirguis, Panickos Neophytou - Auction-Based Admission Control of Continuous Queries
• Qinlan Li - User-Centric Annotation Management for Biological Data
• Alexander Connor - Nearest Neighbor Queries over Dynamic Graph Data

Abstract: In highly interactive dynamic web database systems, user satisfaction determines their success. In such systems, user requested web pages are dynamically created by executing a number of database queries or web transactions. In this paper, we model the interrelated transactions generating a web page as workflows and quantify the user satisfaction by associating dynamic web pages with soft-deadlines. Further, we model the importance of transactions in generating a page by associating different weights to transactions.

Prof. Panos Chrysanthis has become the first Adjunct Professor appointed at the Computer Science Department of the University of Cyprus (Jan 2009 - Jan 2010)

After getting tenure at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Alexandros went on a one term sabbatical in Greece.

Brian Wongchaowart, an undergraduate student in the CS Department at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the ADMT Lab has received an Honorable Mention at the 2009 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award Competition. Brian is doing research in the ADMT Lab under the supervision of Dr. Alexandros Labrinidis. Brian is the seventh student from Pitt's CS Department to be recognized by CRA since the inception of this award program in 1995. Congratulations Brian!

Prof. Alexandros Labrinidis gets NSF CAREER award (on User-Centric Data Management).

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

Congratulations Alex!

Our alumnus, Dr. Mohamed Sharaf has received a 2-year fellowship from the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Canada. He has received one of the 3 fellowships given in engineering!

This year, this fellowship was very competitive - the acceptance rate was 14% (=15 fellowships given to more then 100 applied).
Congratulations Mohamed!