Christoph Koch Associate Professor Department of Computer Science 4105A Upson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Phone: +1 (607) 255-4117 Email: lastname at cs dot cornell dot edu Office Hours: Thu 1:30-2:30pm

My research is on data management (both database systems and theory), Artificial Intelligence (knowledge representation and reasoning about uncertainty), logic and descriptive complexity theory, and the intersection of programming language theory and declarative languages.

• List of publications.

The main research projects that I am currently involved in are on

• managing uncertain and probabilistic data (the MayBMS project)

  Now released on sourceforge!

• data management in video games and simulations
  (TOC; paper) (TOC; paper)
• community data management (the Youtopia project)
• aggressive compilation of queries and databases (The DBToaster Project)

Teaching

• Fall 2009: CS 6320 -- Database Management Systems
• Spring 2009: CS 6320 -- Database Management Systems
• Fall 2008: CS 4320/4321 -- Introduction to Database Systems
• Spring 2008: CS 632 -- Database Management Systems
• Fall 2007: CS 432/433 -- Introduction to Database Systems

People

• Current PhD students:
  • Lyublena Antova
    
  • Oliver Kennedy
    
  • Lucja Kot
    
  • Anton Morozov
    
• Postdoc:
  • Yanif Ahmad
    
• Alumni:
  • Dan Olteanu (Postdoc, Apr. 2005-June 2007). First employment: University Lecturer, Oxford University.
  • Stefanie Scherzinger (PhD, Jan. 2008). First employment: IBM.
  • Michael Schmidt (PhD student, now at Uni Freiburg)

Further Links

• SIGMOD 2009 New Researcher Symposium
• Finished projects.
• Some of my database theory slides, plus their latex sources.
• Mirror of my previous group's Website at Saarland University.