Anastasia Ailamaki

Anastasia Ailamaki

Associate Professor
School of Computer Science
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue, WeH 7109
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
Phone: (412) 268-7848
Fax: (412) 268-5574
E-mail: natassa at cmu.edu

Administrative Assistant: Charlotte Yano

VLDB 2008 PhD Workshop
Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2008

The CMU Database Group and Seminar

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Research and Publications

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Current Projects

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The CMU Database Group

I am a co-founder of the CMU database group. Here is the database seminar schedule for the current and previous semesters, with speakers from academia and industry. Every Monday, the DB group members gather snacks, talk, and chat. Visit the Seminar web site if you want to subscribe to the seminar mailing list.

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Professional Activities

Conference Organization

Program Chair, Second Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, Chicago, IL, June 2006.
General Chair, First Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, Baltimore, MD, June 2005.
Demonstrations Program Committee Chair, ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Chicago, Illinois, June 2006.
Program Committee Chair, Area Database Performance and Internals, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Tokyo Japan, March 2004.

Program Committee Memberships

International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Beijing, China, June 2007.
EuroSys Conference, Leuven, Belgium, April 2006.
4th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS), Athens, Greece, August 2005.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Trondheim, Norway, September 2005.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Baltimore, MD, June 2005.
International Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Asilomar, CA, January 2005.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Toronto, Canada, September 2004.
ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance (MSP), Washington, DC, June 2004.
International Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Asilomar, CA, January 2003.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, San Diego, CA, June 2003.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Hong Kong, China, August 2002.

Editing duties

Publications Chair, IEEE Data Engineering Workgroup on Self Managing Database Systems, 2006-present.
Associate Editor, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 2006-present.
Electronic Proceedings Chair, ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2002.
Associate Editor, ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection (DiSC), 2002, 2003.

At Carnegie Mellon

Co-founder of the CMU Database group.
Member of the Parallel Data Lab.
The Immigration Course 2001 for the Fall 2001 incoming students.
The Programming Systems Seminar Fall 2001.

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Students I do research with

Debabrata Dash
Kun Gao
Nikos Hardavellas (co-advised with Babak Falsafi)
Ryan Johnson
Naju Mancheril
Ippokratis Pandis
Stratos Papadomanolakis
Minglong Shao

Graduated PhDs (year, first new employer)

Graduated Masters (first new employer)

Vladislav Shkapenyuk (AT&T)

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Teaching

Spring 2006: 15-415 Database Applications
Fall 2005: 15-823 Hot Topics In Database Systems
Spring 2005: 15-721 Database Management Systems
Fall 2004: 15-415 Database Applications
Spring 2004: 15-721 Database Management Systems
Spring 2003: 15-415 Database Applications
Fall 2002: 15-823 Hot Topics In Database Systems
Fall 2001: 15-721 Database Management Systems
Spring 2001: 15-823 Advanced Topics In Database Systems Performance

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Eye Contact

finally, here's a picture with Babak Falsafi
and of course a picture with Alkis and Leonidas in Madison
a bunch of us went on a rafting trip at the South American river on June 26, 1999
a terrible picture of me in Rochester NY, 1996
on a horse around Rome in VLDB 2001

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Of DBs and Weather

ACM SIGMOD
The VLDB Endowment
DB & LP Bibliography Server
Temperature in Madison, WI
Temperature in Pittsburgh, PA
Temperature in Chania, Greece

ACM SIGMOD
The VLDB Endowment
DB & LP Bibliography Server
Temperature in Madison, WI
Temperature in Pittsburgh, PA
Temperature in Chania, Greece