Research

My research interests are in the areas of database systems, applications, and mining.  Within this space, I am particularly interested in problems related to data privacy and security.  I am affiliated with the Michigan Software Systems Lab, Database Group, and OpenData IGERT Program.

I am currently advising four graduate students: Daniel Fabbri, Lujun (Tony) Fang, Allie Mazzia, and Rajesh Bejugam.

Project Pages: Database Audit Project, Social Network Privacy Project

Teaching

EECS 584: Advanced Database Systems (F08, F09)

EECS 484: Database Management Systems (W08, W09, W10, F10, W11)

Service Activities

Since 2008, I have had the pleasure of serving as faculty advisor to the U Michigan gEECs.

In 2010-11, I am the faculty coordinator for the CSE Distinguished Lecture Series.

Program committees:

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) -- 2008, 2009.

IEEE Data Engineering (ICDE) -- 2009, 2010, 2011.

IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland) -- 2009.

ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining -- 2007.

ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data -- 2011.

Very Large Databases (VLDB) -- 2008 (Ph.D. Workshop), 2009, 2011.

Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES) -- 2008.

International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS) -- 2009.

International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) -- 2010 (Demonstration Track), 2012.

World Wide Web Conference (WWW) -- 2011.

DBSocial Workshop -- 2011.

I was on the PVLDB Review Board (2008-09), and was Publicity Chair for SIGMOD 2010.