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October 2018: We will present out demo YourDigitalSelf: A Personal
Digital Trace Integration Tool at CIKM'18
Slides
of the presentation on Integration and Exploration of Connected
Personal Digital Traces I gave at ExploreDB'17 (co-located with SIGMOD'17)
Slides of the keynote on Data Crumbs/Small Data (in French) I gave with Arnaud Sahuguet at BDA 2015
Slides of the tutorial on Personal Information Management Systems I
gave with Serge Abiteboul at EDBT/ICDT2015
Rutgers Today has a story on our Personal Data Search project (link)
Research Interests
My main research interests are in Databases, specifically Personal Information Management,Top-k Query
Processing, Data Corroboration, and XML and Web Data Management.
Teaching
Fall 2018 : 198:437 Database Systems Implementation
Spring 2017 : 198:541 Database Systems
Fall 2016 , Fall 2014, Fall 2015 :198:437 Database Systems Implementation (cross-listed with 198:539)
Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2010, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006: 198:541 Database Systems.
Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2006: 198:336 Principles of Information and Data Management.
Fall 2013, Spring 2012: 198:437 Database Systems Implementation.
Fall 2010, Spring 2009: 198:442 Topics in
Computer Science: Systems Aspects of Information Management
Fall 2008: 198:673 Web Data Management.
Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2006:
198:500 Readings in Data Management,
Light Seminar.
Research (
Google Scholar,
DBLP, CV)
My research has been supported by NSF grants NSF-IIS 0844935 and BCS-CDI-Type I 1027801, Google, and Microsoft.
Recent Projects:
- DigitalSelf: Personal Information Management
- Integration and Exploration of Connected Personal Digital
Traces (ExploreDB'17, ODBASE'17, CIKM'18)
- Personal Data Extraction (IIWeb'14)
- Context-aware Personal Information Search
Google Research Award, Remembrance of Data Past: Using Context in Personal Information Search, with Thu D. Nguyen (July 2012).
- Personal Knowledge Base
- RelaxedQ: Semi-structured Data Scoring: Scoring mechanisms to rank (approximate) structural matches to
semi-structured data queries, and efficient algorithms to identify the best structural matches.
- PERSEUS, joint with Noémie Elhadad,
- Data Corroboration:
- Over Web Sources
(EDBT'14, IS'11,WebDB 2007)
Microsoft Live Labs Search Award
for the research proposal "The Truth Is
out There: Aggregating Answers From Multiple Web Sources." (Feature
story)
- In Join Queries
(VLDB '10)
- Over Disagreeing Views
(WSDM'10)
- For Data Cleaning
(CleanDB'06)
Past projects:
- URSA: User Reviews Structure Analysis
- Over a Restaurant Review Data Set (IS 2013, WebDB 2009)
Google Research Award for the proposal:
"URSA:
Understanding User Reviewing Patterns," joint with Noémie Elhadad,
Columbia
Biomedical Informatics.
- XML Projection a projection operator integrated in the
Galax XQuery implementation project.
- XML Version Management: a change-centric model and diff tools (XyDiff) to identify and represent changes in XML documents.
- Top-k Query Processing: adaptive algorithms to efficiently identify a query's top-k matching objects, for different scenarios (multimedia, web services, XML).
Further details available on our
RANK project page.
Recent Professional Activities
Area Editor, Information Systems
Publicity and Social Media Chair, 2013 ACM SIGMOD Conference.
Demonstration Co-Chair, 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012)
Area PC Vice-Chair, Social Networks and Personal Information track, 27th
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011)
Co-chair of the WebDB 2011 workshop co-located with SIGMOD 2011.
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Biographical Sketch
Amélie Marian is an Associate Professor in the
Computer Science Department at
Rutgers University.
Her research interests are in Personal Information Management, Ranked Query Processing, Semi-structured data and Web data Management. Amélie received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2005. From March 1999 to August 2000, Amélie was a member of the
VERSO project at INRIA-Rocquencourt. She
received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Université
Paris Dauphine, France in 1998 and 1999, respectively. She is the
recipient of a Microsoft Live Labs Award (2006), three Google Research Awards (2008, 2010, and 2012)
and an NSF CAREER award (2009).
Amelie Marian