Benjamin Arai [DBLP] Program Manager Microsoft Research Redmond, WA Email:	Benjamin Arai's research interests include IR (Information Retrieval) and distributed databases. Specifically focusing on algorithms for distributed databases, Top-k query processing, and managing data in unstructured topologies.
	Petko Bakalov [DBLP] Software Engineer ESRI Email:	Petko Bakalov's research interests include GIS, spatial databases, indexing and query processing in spatiotemporal databases and spatiotemporal knowledge management.
	Georgos Chatzimilioudis [DBLP] Email:	Georgos' research interests include query optimization and pattern mining
	Carlotta Domeniconi [DBLP] Associate Professor George Mason University Phone: 703-993-1697 Email:	Machine learning, Data mining, Pattern recognition, Classification, Clustering, Feature relevance estimation, Text mining, Bioinformatics.
	Marios Hadjieleftheriou [DBLP] AT&T Labs - Research Email:	Mario's research interests include data indexing, data exploration, approximate string matching, and data stream management.
	Huseyin Hakkoymaz [DBLP] Software Engineer ESRI Email:	Huseyin's Semi-supervised clustering, anomaly detection, social networks, machine learning
	Md. Mahbub Hasan [DBLP] Senior Software Engineer Teradata Email:
	Wenyu Huo [DBLP] Software Engineer LinkedIn Email:	Wenyu Huo's research interests include XML query processing, web mining, social networks and machine learning.
	Abhijith Kashyap [DBLP] Office: 363 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2838 Email:
	Theodoros Lappas [DBLP] Post-Doc Boston University Email:	Theodoros Lappas' interests include web & text mining, information retrieval and graph structures.
	Song Lin [DBLP] Sr. Software Engineer Search & Advertising Sciences Yahoo! Inc. Email:	Song Lin's research interests include data compression, management in wireless sensor networks, spatio-temporal query processing and Top-k query processing in distributed systems.
	Mirella Moro [DBLP] Assistant Professor Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais Email:	Mirella's research includes the following topics: storage management, query processing and optimization for XML and semi-structured data, index structures and access methods, document and system versions management, and temporal databases. Currently, her focus is on XML query processing and document routing.
	Abdullah Mueen [DBLP] Program Manager Microsoft Corporation Email:	Abdullah Mueen's research interest is in exact and scalable algorithms for finding patterns in very high dimensional databases. He is also interested in efficient similarity measures and real time pattern discovery.
	Dimitris Papadopoulos [DBLP] Office: 363 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2838 Email:	Dimitris' research interests include spatio-temporal indexing and query processing, data minig for high-dimensional data, and data management in wireless sensornets.
	Mariam Salloum [DBLP] Northrop Grumman Email:
	Sharmila Subramaniam [DBLP] Software Engineer Google Inc. Email:	Sharmila Subramaniam's research interests include data mining and workflow management systems. She is currently focusing on process mining and data analysis and compression in wireless sensor systems.
	Zografoula Vagena [DBLP] Post-doc Rice University Houston, Texas Email:
	Michael Rice [DBLP] Office: 363 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2838 Email:
	Eduardo Ruiz [DBLP] Amazon Email:
	Muhammad Uddin [DBLP] Microsoft Email:
	Marcos Vieira [DBLP] IBM Research Laboratory - Brazil Email:	Marcos' research interests include spatiotemporal databases, indexing and similarity query processing.
	Li Wei [DBLP] Software Engineer Google Inc. Email:	Li Wei's research interests include data mining and information retrieval. Currently she is focusing on time series filtering, clustering, classification, and visualization.
	Jarod Wen [DBLP] Oracle Labs Senior Staff Member Email:	Jian's research focuses on technologies of processing large volume data sets (multi-dimensional, spatial and temporal), and distributed data management systems.
	Xiaopeng Xi [DBLP] Software Engineer Mail Anti-spam, Yahoo! Inc. Email:	Xiaopeng Xi's research interests include data mining and machine learning, specializing in classification, anomaly detection and indexing in time-series datasets.
	Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti [DBLP] Lecturer University of Cyprus Email:	Distributed Query Processing, Storage and Retrieval Methods for Sensor and Peer-to-Peer Systems, Mobile Data Management and Network Data Management.
	Donghui Zhang [DBLP] Senior Research SDE Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab Email:	Donghui Zhang's primary research area is databases. In particular, indexing and query optimization in spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal databases.
	Qiang Zhu [DBLP] StumbleUpon Email:	Qiang's research interests include Data Mining, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Information Retrieval. Currently he's particularly interested in Similarity Search, Classification and Clustering of large-scale time series and shapes/images.

M.Sc.

	Theodoros Ioannou [DBLP] Office: 363 Winston Chung Hall Phone: (951) 827-2838 Email:
	Sanjay Kulhari Juniper Networks Email:	Sanjay Kulhari's research interests include Database management, XML query processing and Information retrieval.
	Ali Mirzabeigi Office: 363 Engineering BU2 Phone: (951) 827-2838 Email:
	Conley Read Infrastructure and Security group Computing and Communications - UCR Email:	Conley Read's research interests include text mining and Information Retrieval; particularly, query processing and document management in large and distributed text collections.
	Adam Woss [DBLP] Software Engineer JAAL Llc Email:
	Wanxing Xu Software Engineer Microsoft Redmond, WA Email:

Visitors/Post Docs

	Anastasios Arvanitis [DBLP] Email:	Dr. Tasos Arvanitis's research interests include profile-based and context-aware data management, personalization and recommender systems, and flexible query answering.
	George Kollios [DBLP] Associate Professor Boston University Phone: (617) 358-1835 Email:
	Maria C. N. Barioni [DBLP] Assistant Professor Univ. Federal do ABC Santo Andre, Brazil Email:
	Humberto L. Razente [DBLP] Assistant Professor Univ. Federal do ABC Santo Andre, Brazil Email:	Humberto's research interests include databases, data mining, multimedia retrieval, access methods, and query algorithms