VAGELIS HRISTIDIS (also
Evangelos Christidis)
School
of Computing and Information Sciences
office
tel.: +1 (305) 3486500
e-mail:
vagelis
cis.fiu.edu
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EDUCATION Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2004
(Advisor – Prof. Yannis Papakonstaninou)
M.S. in Computer Science, December 2000
B.S. in Electrical
Engineering & Computer Science, 1999
WORK Assistant Professor, 2004-present
EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant, 1999-2004
Database
Laboratory of Computer Science & Engineering Dept
Intern at Microsoft Research,
Worked with Surajit Chaudhuri
and Gautam Das on Automatically Ranking the Results of Queries. Studied and
developed solutions for the problem.
DIMACS Scholar, Summer 2002
AT&T Labs-Research,
Worked with Nick Koudas and Divesh Srivastava on
Keyword Search in XML.
Teaching Assistant, 1999-2002
In the courses of Data
Structures, Database Principles, Database Applications, Operating Systems,
Complexity Theory and Programming Languages, Database Systems: Advanced Topics
& Implementation (graduate).
Computer Science
& Engineering Dept
Software
Developer, 1997-1998
Worked for Syndesis Ltd in the development of CASE tools for fuzzy
logic. Created the data schema specifications and implemented various software
modules using Visual C++.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
1. Vagelis Hristidis. Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records. CRC - Taylor
& Francis, December 2009 (also co-authored 4 chapters), ISBN: 9781420090383, ISBN 10: 1420090380
Conferences/Workshops
2. Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos,
Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas. An
Access Cost-Aware Approach for Object Retrieval over Multiple Sources.
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) and VLDB Conference 2010.
3. Vagelis Hristidis, Yuheng Hu, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis.
Ranked Queries over Sources with Boolean
Query Interfaces without Ranking Support. IEEE ICDE 2010, short paper (acceptance rate 20%)
4. Vagelis Hristidis, Eduardo Ruiz. CADS: A Collaborative Adaptive Data Sharing Platform. VLDB Workshop
on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases
(PersDB 2009).
5. Ariel Cary, Zhengguo Sun, Vagelis Hristidis, Naphtali
Rishe. Experiences on Processing Spatial
Data with MapReduce. 21st International Conference on Scientific and
Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2009
6. Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa
Raschid, Maria-Esther Vidal, Luis lbanez and Hector Rodriguez-Drumond: Flexible
and Efficient Querying and Ranking on Hyperlinked Data Sources, EDBT
2009 (full paper, acceptance rate 33%)
7. Medha Bhadkamkar, Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Sam
Burnett, Jason Liptak, Raju Rangaswami, and Vagelis Hristidis. BORG:
Block-reORGanization for Self-Optimizing Storage Systems. USENIX File
and Storage Technologies, FAST 2009
(acceptance rate 22%)
8. Fernando Farfán, Vagelis Hristidis, Anand Ranganathan,
and Michael Weiner. XOntoRank: Ontology-Aware Search of
Electronic Medical Records. IEEE International Conference on Data
Engineering (ICDE) 2009 (long paper,
acceptance rate 17%)
9. Abhijith Kashyap, Vagelis Hristidis, Michalis
Petropoulos, and Sotiria Tavoulari. BioNav: Effective Navigation on Query
Results of Biomedical Databases. IEEE International Conference on Data
Engineering, ICDE 2009 (short paper,
acceptance rate 27%)
10. K. Saleem, S. Luis, Y. Deng, S-C. Chen, V. Hristidis,
T. Li. Towards a Business
Continuity Information Network for Rapid Disaster Recovery. 9th Annual
International Conference on Digital Government Research 2008
11. Muhammed Miah, Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, Heikki
Mannila. Standing Out in a
Crowd: Selecting Attributes for Maximum Visibility. IEEE ICDE 2008 (full paper, short presentation, acceptance
rate 19%)
12. Ian De Felipe, Vagelis Hristidis, Naphtali Rishe. Keyword
Search on Spatial Databases. IEEE ICDE 2008 (full paper, long presentation, acceptance rate 12%)
13. Ramakrishna Varadarajan,
Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa Raschid. Explaining and
Reformulating Authority Flow Queries.
IEEE ICDE 2008 (full paper, short
presentation, acceptance rate 19%)
14. Vagelis Hristidis, Fernando Farfán, Redmond P. Burke,
Anthony F. Rossi, Jeffrey A. White. Information
Discovery on Electronic Medical Records. National Science Foundation
Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for
Innovation (NGDM) 2007 (acceptance rate
28%)
15. Fernando Farfan, Vagelis Hristidis, Raju Rangaswami. Beyond Lazy XML Parsing.
18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA
2007 (acceptance rate 32%)
16. Vagelis Hristidis, Peter J. Clarke, Nagarajan
Prabakar, Yi Deng, Jeffrey A. White, Redmond P. Burke. A Flexible Approach for
Electronic Medical Records Exchange. International Workshop on Health
Information and Knowledge Management (HIKM), in conjunction with ACM CIKM, 2006
17. Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis: A System for Query-Specific
Document Summarization. ACM CIKM 2006 (acceptance rate 15%)
18. Yi Deng, S.
Masoud Sadjadi, Peter Clarke, Chi Zhang,
Vagelis Hristidis, Raju
Rangaswami, Nagarajan Prabakar. A
Communication Virtual Machine. International Computer Software and
Applications Conference (COMPSAC) 2006 (acceptance
rate 31%)
19. Gautam Das, Vagelis
Hristidis, Nishant Kapoor, S. Sudarshan. Ordering
the Attributes of Query Results.
ACM SIGMOD 2006 (acceptance rate 13%)
20. Peter J. Clarke, Vagelis Hristidis, Yingbo Wang,
Nagarajan Prabakar and Yi Deng. A Declarative Approach for Specifying
User-Centric Communication. Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and
Systems (CTS), 2006
21. Ken Pu, Vagelis
Hristidis, Nick Koudas. A
Syntactic Rule Based Approach to Web Service Composition. IEEE ICDE 2006 (acceptance rate 19%)
22. Andrey Balmin, Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis
Papakonstantinou: ObjectRank:
Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases. VLDB 2004 (acceptance
rate 16%)
23. Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis,
Gerhard Weikum: Probabilistic
Ranking of Database Query Results. VLDB 2004 (acceptance rate 16%)
24. Vagelis Hristidis, Luis Gravano, Yannis
Papakonstantinou: Efficient
IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases. VLDB 2003 (acceptance rate 14%)
25. Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Andrey
Balmin: Keyword Proximity
Search on XML Graphs (extended version). IEEE ICDE 2003 (acceptance rate 13%)
26. Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou: DISCOVER: Keyword Search in
Relational Databases. VLDB 2002 (acceptance
rate 16%)
27. Vagelis Hristidis, Michalis Petropoulos: Semantic Caching of XML
Databases. WebDB 2002
28. Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis
Papakonstantinou: PREFER: A
System for the Efficient Execution of Multi-parametric Ranked Queries.
ACM SIGMOD 2001 (acceptance rate 15%)
Journals
29. Abhijith Kashyap, Vagelis Hristidis, Michalis
Petropoulos, and Sotiria Tavoulari. Effective
Navigation of Query Results Based on Concept Hierarchies. IEEE Transactions
on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2010
30. Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou,
Ramakrishna Varadarajan. Using Proximity
Search to Estimate Authority Flow. IEEE TKDE 2009
31. Vagelis Hristidis, Oscar Valdivia, Michail Vlachos,
Philip S Yu. Information Discovery
across Multiple Streams. Elsevier Information Sciences, 2009
32. Muhammed Miah, Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis and
Heikki Mannila. Determining Attributes
to Maximize Visibility of Objects. IEEE TKDE 2009
33. Medha Bhadkamkar, Fernando Farfan, Vagelis Hristidis,
and Raju Rangaswami. Storing
Semi-structured data on disk drives. ACM Transactions on Storage, Vol. 5, Issue
# 2, May, 2009 .
34. Fernando Farfan, Vagelis Hristidis, Raju Rangaswami. 2LP:
A Double-Lazy XML Parser. Elsevier Information Systems 34 (2009), pp.
145-163
35. Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis, Vagelis Hristidis. Extracting
k Most Important Groups from Data Efficiently. Elsevier Data &
Knowledge Engineering (DKE), 2008.
36. Yi Deng, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Peter J. Clarke, Vagelis
Hristidis, Raju Rangaswami, and Yingbo Wang. CVM - A Communication Virtual Machine. The Elsevier Special Issue
of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2008.
37. Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li: Beyond Single-Page Web Search Results,
IEEE TKDE 2008
38. Vagelis Hristidis,
Heasoo Hwang, Yannis Papakonstantinou. Authority-Based Keyword Search in
Databases. ACM Trans. Database Syst (TODS) 2008
39. Yufei Tao, Vagelis
Hristidis, Dimitris Papadias, Yannis Papakonstantinou. Branch-and-Bound Processing of Ranked Queries. Elsevier Information Systems Volume 32, Issue 3, May
2007, Pages 424-445
40. Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis,
Gerhard Weikum: Probabilistic
Information Retrieval Approach for Ranking of Database Query Results. ACM Trans. Database Syst (TODS) 31, 3 (Sep.
2006), 1134-1168
41. Vagelis Hristidis, Nick
Koudas, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Divesh Srivastava. Keyword Proximity Search in XML Trees. IEEE TKDE, April 2006 (Vol. 18, No. 4) pp. 525-539
42. Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou: Algorithms and Applications
for answering Ranked Queries using Ranked Views. VLDB Journal, Volume
13 , Issue 1, January 2004
Book
Chapters
43. Vagelis Hristidis, Fernando Farfán, Redmond P. Burke,
Anthony F. Rossi, Jeffrey A. White. Challenges
for Information Discovery on Electronic Medical Records. Book details: Next
Generation of Data Mining. CRC - Taylor & Francis. Editors: Hillol
Kargupta, Jiawei Han, Philip Yu, Rajeev Motwani, Vipin Kumar. 2008
Demos/Posters
44. Abhijith Kashyap, Vagelis Hristidis, Michalis
Petropoulos and Sotiria Tavoulari. Exploring
Biomedical Databases with BioNav. Demo Paper, ACM SIGMOD Conference 2009 (acceptance rate 37%)
45. Fernando Farfán, Vagelis Hristidis, Anand Ranganathan,
Redmond P. Burke. Ontology-Aware Search on
XML-based Electronic Medical Records. Poster Paper, IEEE ICDE 2008 (acceptance rate 31%)
46. Vagelis Hristidis, Oscar Valdivia, Michalis Vlachos,
Philip Yu. A System for Keyword Search on Textual Streams.
Short Paper, SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2007 (acceptance rate 25%)
47. Nishant Kapoor, Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, S.
Sudarshan, Gerhard Weikum. STAR: A System for Tuple and Attribute Ranking
of Query Answers. Demo paper, ICDE 2007
48. Vagelis Hristidis, Oscar Valdivia, Michalis Vlachos,
Philip S. Yu: Continuous Keyword
Search on Multiple Text Streams. Poster paper, ACM CIKM 2006
(acceptance rate 25%)
49. Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li: Searching the Web Using Composed
Pages. Poster paper, ACM SIGIR 2006
50. Heasoo Hwang, Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis
Papakonstantinou. ObjectRank: A System for Authority-based
Search on Databases. Demo paper, ACM SIGMOD 2006
51. Medha Bhadkamkar, Fernando Farfan, Vagelis Hristidis,
and Raju Rangaswami. Storing Trees on Disk Drives.
Proceedings of the File and Storage Technologies WiP, 2005.
52. Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis: Structure-Based
Query-Specific Document Summarization. Poster paper, CIKM 2005
53. Andrey Balmin, Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis
Papakonstantinou, Divesh Srivastava, Tianqiu Wang: A System for Keyword Search on
XML Databases. Demo paper, VLDB 2003
Technical
Reports
54. Medha Bhadkamkar,
Vagelis Hristidis, Raju Rangaswami. Efficient
Native XML Storage.
55. Yi Deng, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Peter Clarke, Chi Zhang,
Vagelis Hristidis, Raju Rangaswami, and Nagarajan Prabakar. A communication virtual machine.
56. Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou: Merging results from
Multi-parametric Ranked Queries. UCSD Technical Report, 2001
PATENTS/APPLICATIONS
1. Communication Virtual Machine (CVM), with Yi Deng, Steven Luis, Masoud Sadjadi,
Peter J Clarke, Raju Rangaswami, FIU, submitted 11/2006
2. Methods for Searching Digital Documents and Databases (
3. Adding Context to XML Keyword Searches (
4. Ranking Database Query Results (Attorney's Docket No. MS1-2013US), with Surajit
Chaudhuri, Gautam Das and Gerhard Weikum, Microsoft Research 2004
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
· Steering Committee, DBRank 2008-present
· Finance Chair, IEEE International Conference on Data
Mining (ICDM) 2009
· Proceedings Co-Chair, ICDE 2009
· Co-Chair, DBRank 2008 Workshop, at ICDE 2008
· Proceedings Co-Chair, SIGMOD 2006
· Publicity Chair, CIKM 2006
· Program Committee Member:
-
DBRank Workshop
2010, at ICDE
-
IEEE
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2010
-
EDBT 2010 (13th
International Conference on Extending Database Technology)
-
ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in
Geographic Information Systems 2009 (ACM GIS 2009)
-
Fourth
International Workshop on XML Data Management Tools and Techniques (XANTEC
'09), in conjunction with DEXA 2009
-
Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB) 2009, co-located with SIGMOD
-
Keyword Search on
Structured Data (KEYS) 2009 Workshop, collocated with SIGMOD 2009
-
Proceedings of
VLDB Endowment (replacement of VLDB Conference Proceedings) 2008-2009
-
13th Pacific-Asia
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-09)
-
DBRank Workshop
2009, at ICDE
-
IEEE
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2009
-
IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2008
-
COMAD 2008
(International Conf on Management of Data)
-
PIKM 2008 (Ph.D.
Workshop in CIKM 2008)
-
Third
International Workshop on XML Data Management Tools and Techniques (XANTEC
'08), in conjunction with DEXA 2008
-
19th
International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)
2008
-
DBRank 2007,
collocated with ICDE 2007
-
Workshop on Advances
in Preference Handling co-located with VLDB 2007
-
PIKM 2007 (Ph.D.
Workshop in CIKM 2007)
-
Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB) 2006 co-located with SIGMOD
-
ACM Southeast
Conference 2006
-
Workshop on
Advances in Preference Handling 2006
· Reviewer: ACM TODS, Elsevier Journal of Computer and
System Sciences, ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, TKDE, PODS, WebDB, WWWJ, Information
Sciences journal, VLDB Journal, Knowledge and Information Systems KAIS journal,
Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier, USENIX, Distributed and
Parallel Databases, TKDD, Information Processing Letters (IPL), TOIS, Journal
of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Elsevier Information Systems, MKP
book
HONORS
AND AWARDS
·
Kauffmann
Foundation Entrepreneurship Award, 2008
·
FIU Faculty
Research Award, 2008
·
FIU School of
Computing and Information Sciences Research Award, 2006
·
DIMACS Scholar, Summer 2002
·
Eugenidou
Foundation Scholarship, 2000-2002
Awarded by the
Eugenidou Foundation in Greece for excellence in academics and research
LANGUAGES English (Cambridge Proficiency), Greek (native),
German (Goethe Zertifikat)
REFERENCES available upon request