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	Ph.D. student (6^th year, exp. graduation: May 2008) Thesis: Integration of Structured and Full-Text Search in XML Computer Science Department Cornell University
	334 Upson Hall (please use "4130 Upson Hall" for correspondence) Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 (607) 262 0694, 255-9211

Resume

F. Shao, L. Guo, C. Botev, A. Bhaskar, M. Chettiar, F. Yang, J. Shanmugasunda ram, “Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views”, VLDB Conference, 2007.
S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, J. Doerre, J. Shanmugasundaram, “XQuery Full-Text Extensions Explained”, IBM Systems Journal 45(2), 2006.
C. Botev, S. Amer-Yahia, J. Shanmugasundaram, "Expressiveness and Performance of Full-Text Search Languages", EDBT Conference, March 2006.
S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, S. Buxton, P. Case, J. Doerre, D. McBeath, M. Rys, J. Shanmugasundaram. “XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text”. W3C Working Draft, 09 July 2004.
S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, J. Shanmugasundaram. "TeXQuery: A Full-Text Search Extension to XQuery". WWW Conference, New York, 2004.

L. Guo, F. Shao, C. Botev, J. Shanmugasundaram. "XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents". SIGMOD, San Diego, 2003.
C. Botev. "A Design of a Web-Based Cataloguing Information System". Master's Thesis (in Bulgarian). Sofia University, 2000.

C. Botev, S. Amer-Yahia, J. Shanmugasundaram. "On the Completeness of Full-Text Search Languages", Technical Report, Cornell University, March 2005.

S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, J. Robie and J. Shanmugasundaram. "TeXQuery: A Full-Text Search Extension to XQuery, Part I: Language Specification", Technical Report, Cornell University, July 2003.

S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, J. Robie and J. Shanmugasundaram. "TeXQuery: A Full-Text Search Extension to XQuery, Part II: Formal Semantics", Technical Report, Cornell University, July 2003.
S. Amer-Yahia, C. Botev, J. Robie and J. Shanmugasundaram. "TeXQuery: A Full-Text Search Extension to XQuery, Part III: Use Cases Solutions", Technical Report, Cornell University, July 2003.

A. Bhaskar, C. Botev, M. Muthaia Chettiar , L. Guo., J. Shanmugasundaram, F. Shao, F. Yang. “Quark: An Efficient XQuery Full-Text Implementation”, SIGMOD Conference, June
2006.
C. Botev, N. Eiron, M. Fontoura, N. Li, E. J. Shekita. “Static score bucketing in inverted indexes”, CIKM Conference, 2005.
C. Botev, S. Amer-Yahia, J. Shanmugasundaram. "A TeXQuery-Based XML Full-Text Search Engine". SIGMOD'2004 Demo. Paris, France.
C. Botev, J. Shanmugasundaram. "Context-Sensitive Keyword Search and Ranking for XML". WebDB'2005 Poster. Baltimore, MD, USA.

Sep 2006 - Dec 2006, Intern at Yahoo! Research
May 2004 - August 2004, Summer intern at IBM Almaden Research Center, Trevi Research Group; manager - Eugene Shekita; mentor - Marcus Fontoura
2003 - present - invited expert in Full-Text Task Force at the W3C XQuery working group; work on a full-text search extension to XQuery
January 2002 - present: Research Assistant of Prof. Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
August 2002 - December 2002: Teaching Assistant for CS432 - Introduction to Database Systems, Cornell University (Department of Computer Science T.A. award )
October 1999 - January 2001: Teaching Assistant for II - Artificial Intelligence, Sofia University
October 1998 - January 1999: Teaching Assistant for SD - Data Structures, Sofia University
October 1997 - January 1998: Teaching Assistant for SD - Data Structures, Sofia University