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About me
I am part of the database group at UCSD, Computer Science where I work with Alin Deutsch and Yannis Papakonstantinou. I am also affiliated with the CNS center.My research lays in foundational aspects of Databases with emphasis on query optimization, search (XML full-text, DB & IR, systems and algorithms), XML technologies and data integration.
Professional Service
· External conference reviewer: VLDB'08
· UCSD Teaching Assistant (TA): Database System Applications (CSE132B) Fall 2003, Spring 2008
Internships
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· IBM Almaden Research Center, USA, 2007-2008
Mentor: Fatma Ozcan, Andrey Balmin · AT&T Labs Research, USA, 2006 Mentor: Divesh Srivastava · AT&T Labs Research, USA, 2004-2005 Mentor: Sihem Amer-Yahia · Infineon Technologies AG, Germany, 2002-2003 Mentor: Raik Brinkmann, Hermann Ilmberger |
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Background
· Ph.D. candidate at University of California San Diego
Computer Science and Engineering Department
· M.S. from University of California San Diego
Computer Science and Engineering Department
· B.S. from Polytechnic Institute Bucharest, Romania
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Selected Talks
- XML Distributed Retrieval [.PPT]
- In
"Ranked
XML Querying" at Dagstuhl, Germany, 2008
- A logical framework for XML
full-text search [.PPT] - AT&T Labs Research,
2005
- GalaTex, an XML Full-Text Search
Engine [.PDF] - AT&T Labs Research,
2004
Papers in Conferences and Workshops
- Censorship-resistant Publishing
[.PDF]
Technical Report CS2008-0919. University of California San Diego, March 2008.
Emiran Curtmola, Alin Deutsch, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Divesh Srivastava.
- A Platform for Search in the
Big Web 2.0
[.PDF]
SIGMOD 2007 PhD Workshop on Innovative Database Research. IDAR 2007
Emiran Curtmola
- Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates
[.PDF, slides]
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. SIGMOD 2006
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Emiran Curtmola, Alin Deutsch
- Rewriting Nested XML Queries Using Nested Views
[.PDF, slides]
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. SIGMOD 2006
Nicola Onose, Alin Deutsch, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Emiran Curtmola
- GalaTex: A Conformant Implementation of the XQuery Full-Text Language
[.PDF]
XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives. XIME-P 2005
Emiran Curtmola, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Philip Brown, Mary Fernández
Selected Posters
- Querying XML Peers
[.PDF]
Center for Networked Systems. CNS Research Review 2008
Emiran Curtmola, Alin Deutsch, Yannis Papakonstantinou, K.K. Ramakrishnan,
Divesh Srivastava
- GalaTex: A Conformant Implementation of the XQuery Full-Text Language
[.PDF]
World Wide Web. WWW 2005
Emiran Curtmola, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Philip Brown, Mary Fernández
- Implementation and Open Research Issues in XML Full-Text Search
New York Area DB/IR Day 2005
Emiran Curtmola, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Alin Deutsch
Project Demos
- XTreeeNet - Democratic Community Search (work in progress)
[.PDF]
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. VLDB 2008
- SEDA: A System for Search, Exploration, Discovery and Analysis of XML Data
[.PDF]
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. VLDB 2008
- GalaTex - XQuery Full-Text extension of XPath and XQuery Languages
- REFORM - A System for Rewriting XML Nested Queries Using Nested Views
- MARS - A System for Publishing XML from Mixed And Redundant Storage