PhD Symposium

Session 1 (10:30am – 12pm): Panel discussion and presentation

Navigating the PhD terrain: surprises, pitfalls, and roadblocks, and how to overcome them.
Panelists: Amr El Abbadi, Mohamed Mokbel, Li Xiong, Vladimir Zadorozhny
Designing an adaptive VM that combines vectorized and JIT execution on heterogeneous hardware.
Tim Gubner (CWI)

Session 2 (2:00 – 3:30pm): Student presentations

Node Selection in Large Networks
Alvis Logins (Aalborg University)
ZIP-Code Classification using Spatial and Crowdsourced Data
Tunaggina Khan (George Mason University)
Complex Event Processing under Constrained Resources by State-based Load Shedding
Bo Zhao (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Session 3 (4:00 – 5:30pm): Student presentations

A Forensic Analysis Approach to Auditing Database Systems
James Wagner (DePaul University)
Towards Not Re-Inventing the Wheel: Managing Data Management Tools
Kathryn Dahlgren (UC Santa Cruz)
Internet of Metaproteomics
Roman Zoun (University of Magdeburg)