Lecturer Biographies

Tanu Malik

Purdue University Cyber Center

Tanu Malik is a Research Assistant Professor with the Cyber Center in Discover Park at Purdue University. She obtained her Phd and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Her primary research interests are in scientific data management, data caching, query processing and optimization, physical design of database systems and transactional web database systems. Her main research project is Bypass-Yield Caching, which is to build an open-source proxy cache for scientific data federations. Tanu is a founding member of the Open SkyQuery project (http://www.openskyquery.net/), and is responsible for its overall design and query capabilities. She is also a member of the SDSS project (http://www.sdss.org), contributing to several tools that enable efficient querying and search on its massive database.

Stijn Vansummeren

Research Foundation -- Flanders

Stijn Vansummeren is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders. He received his Computer Science Ph. D. from Hasselt University and the Transnational University of Limburg, Belgium. While in the past his research has mainly focused the interaction between database query languages and general-purpose programming languages, he has recently worked on the topic of provenance in databases.

Nirmit Desai

North Carolina State University

Nirmit Desai is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University (NCSU). His research interests include modeling and analysis of business service engagements, business-level SOA, large-scale distributed systems, and model-driven architecture. His research has resulted in over 15 papers to leading journals and conferences and a US patent (filed). One of his papers was recognized as a "Best student paper". His professional experience includes a year of research internships at IBM TJ Watson research center. He received his PhD and MS in Computer Science from NCSU in 2007 and 2003 respectively.

Aubrey Rembert

University of Colorado

Aubrey J. Rembert is a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests include the study and development of intelligent workflow systems that support humane system interactions and human activities. Since 2005, advised by Clarence "Skip" Ellis, Aubrey has worked in the general research area of workflow mining, which concerns automatically learning workflow models from logs of event data. In this field, he has developed a framework based on the concept of workflow dimensions and workflow perspectives. Using this framework, he has developed novel algorithms across two workflow perspectives, the behavioral perspective and the informational perspective. Aubrey expects to receive his Ph.D. in Computer Science in May 2008.

KC Claffy

San Diego Supercomputer Center

KC Claffy is principal investigator for the distributed Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), and resident research scientist based at the University of California's San Diego Supercomputer Center. kc's research interests include Internet workload/performance data collection, analysis and visualization, particularly with respect to commercial ISP collaboration/cooperation and sharing of analysis resources. kc received her PhD in Computer Science from UCSD in 1994.