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Jayavel Shanmugasundaram

Assistant Professor (on leave)
Department of Computer Sciences
Cornell University
4105A Upson Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Update (May 2006): I am currently at Yahoo! Research Labs

Research Interests

My research interests include Internet data management, information retrieval and query processing in emerging system architectures. My current projects include:

Quark: Unifying Database Systems and Information Retrieval Systems
Pepper: Peer-to-Peer Data Management
Hilda: A High-Level Language for Data-Driven Web Applications

Previously, I worked on Bridging Relational Technology and XML in the context of the XPERANTO and Niagara projects.

Selected Publications

[Full list of publications] [DBLP publication list]

Hilda: A High-Level Language for Data-Driven Web Applications (with F. Yang, M. Riedewald, J. Gehrke, A. Demers), ICDE 2006.
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text (co-edited with S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, S. Buxton, P. Case, J. Doerre, D. McBeath, M. Rys), W3C Working Draft, 2005.
Guaranteeing Correctness and Availability in P2P Range Indices (with P. Linga, A. Crainiceanu, J. Gehrke), SIGMOD 2005.
TeXQuery: A Full-Text Search Extension to XQuery (with S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev), WWW 2004.
XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents (with L. Guo, F. Shao, C. Botev), SIGMOD 2003.
Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents (with E. Shekita, R. Barr, M. Carey, B. Lindsay, H. Pirahesh, B. Reinwald), VLDB Journal, 2001.
Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities (with K. Tufte, G. He, C. Zhang. D. DeWitt, J. Naughton), VLDB 1999.
Efficient Concurrency Control for Broadcast Environments (with A. Nithrakashyap, R. Sivasankaran, K. Ramamritham), SIGMOD 1999.

Recent Talks

[Full list of talks]

XML Full-Text Search: Challenges and Opportunities, Tutorial, VLDB 2005.
Whither XML ca. 2005?, Panel, DBPL/XSym 2005.
Text Search in XML, Invited Talk, University of Washington-Microsoft Research Workshop 2005.
Databases and Information Retrieval: Rethinking the Great Divide, Panel, SIGMOD 2005.
XQuery and Information Retrieval, Invited Talk, XIME-P 2005.
Database Research for the Current Millennium, Panel, ICDE 2004.
Information Retrieval and Databases: Synergies and Syntheses, Panel, NSF IDM Workshop 2003.

Recent Professional Activities

[Full List of Professional Activities]

Invited Expert: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text.
Program Committee Vice-Chair: ICDE 2005 ("Semi-Structured Data and XML" Track)
Program Committee: VLDB 2006, SIGIR 2006, ICDE 2006, SIGMOD 2005, ICDE 2004, VLDB 2003, SIGMOD 2003.

Awards

James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, Cornell College of Engineering (2005)
NSF CAREER Award [Cornell Chronicle Article] (2003-2008)
IBM Faculty Award (2002, 2003).