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Elastic Scalability of Data-intensive Applications in the Cloud
Divy Agrawal
University of California at Santa Barbara
Friday, May 06, 2011, 4PM
Volen 101, Brandeis University
(preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 3:00 pm, and followed by dinner at 6:00 pm)
Abstract:
Dr. Divyakant Agrawal is a
Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa
Barbara. His research expertise is in the areas of database systems,
distributed computing, data warehousing, and large-scale information
systems. Dr. Agrawal served as the Chair of Computer Science Department
at UCSB from 1999 to 2003. From January 2006 through December 2007, Dr.
Agrawal served as VP of Data Solutions and Advertising Systems at the
Internet Search Company ASK.com. Dr. Agrawal has also served as a
Visiting Senior Research Scientist at the NEC Laboratories of America
in Cupertino, CA from 1997 to 2009. During his professional career, Dr.
Agrawal has served on numerous Program Committees of International
Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops and served as an editor of the
journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases (1993-2008), the VLDB
journal (2003-2008) and currently serves on the editorial boards of the
Proceedings of the VLDB and ACM Transactions on Database Systems. He
recently served as the Program Chair of the 2010 ACM International
Conference on Management of Data and served as the General Chair of the
2010 ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference on Advances in Geographical Information
Systems. Dr. Agrawal organized an NSF Workshop on the Science of Cloud
Computing in March’2011, is serving as the General Co-Chair of ACM
SIGSPATIAL Conference on Advances in GIS (ACM GIS’2011), and is serving
as the Program Co-Chair of ACM Workshop on Large Scale Distributed
Systems and Middleware (ACM LADIS’2011). Dr. Agrawal's research
philosophy is to develop data management solutions that are
theoretically sound and are relevant in practice. He has published 300+
research manuscripts in prestigious forums (journals, conferences,
symposia, and workshops) on wide range of topics related to data
management and distributed systems and has advised more than 30
Doctoral students during his academic career. Recently, Dr. Agrawal has
been recognized as an Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Distinguished Scientist. His current interests are in the area of
scalable data management and data analysis in Cloud Computing
environments, security and privacy of data in the cloud, and scalable
analytics over social networks data and social media. Dr. Agrawal is
the recipient of the UCSB Academic Senate Outstanding Graduate Mentor
Award in 2010-11.
Maintained by Olga Papaemmanouil olga AT cs.brandeis.edu