Lyublena Antova

PhD student

Office:

5104 Upson Hall
Cornell University

Phone:

+1 (607) 255-9537

Contact:

Education

08.2007 -	PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell University's Database group. My advisor is Christoph Koch.
09.2006 - 12.2006	Visiting scientist at Cornell University.
10.2004 - 08.2007	PhD student in Computer Science at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany (M.Sc. completed in 03.2006) Supported by scholarship from International Max-Planck Research School for Computer Science.
10.2003 - 07.2004	Exchange student at Catholic University Eichstätt, Eichstätt, Germany Supported by Erasmus scholarship
10.1999 - 07.2003	B.Sc. student in Computer Science at Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria Supported by scholarship for high academic achievements from the Bulgarian government

MayBMS: A Database Management System for Uncertain and Probabilistic Data

[2008] World-set Decompositions: Expressiveness and Efficient Algorithms.
Dan Olteanu, Christoph Koch, Lyublena Antova
Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) 2008, to appear.
(Journal version of ICDT 2007 paper). (online version)
[2008] Fast and Simple Relational Processing of Uncertain Data.
Lyublena Antova, Thomas Jansen, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu
Proc. ICDE 2008. (pdf file)
(ranked 2nd in the research track)
[2007] Query language support for incomplete information in the MayBMS system.
Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu
Proc. VLDB 2007. (Demo paper). (pdf file)
[2007] From Complete to Incomplete Information and Back.
Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu
Proc. SIGMOD 2007. (pdf file)
[2007] World-set Decompositions: Expressiveness and Efficient Algorithms.
Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu
Proc. ICDT 2007. (pdf file - long version)
[2007] MayBMS: Managing Incomplete Information with Probabilistic World-Set Decompositions.
Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu
Proc. ICDE 2007. (Demo paper) (pdf file)
[2007] 10^10⁶ Worlds and Beyond: Efficient Representation and Processing of Incomplete Information.
Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu
Proc. ICDE 2007. (pdf file - long version)

[2008] On APIs for Probabilistic Databases.
Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch
Proc. MUD 2008 (workshop on Management of Uncertain Data, colocated with VLDB). (pdf file)
[2006] Efficient Representation and Processing of Incomplete Information.
Lyublena Antova
Master's Thesis, Saarland University, Feb. 2006. (copy in IMPRS database)

MayBMS: A System for Managing Large Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases.
Presented at Spring'08 North East DB/IR Day, Columbia University, NYC.
(Best poster award) (pdf file)
10^10⁶ Worlds and Beyond: Efficient Representation and Processing of Incomplete Information.
Given at ICDE 2007, Istanbul.
World-set Decompositions: Expressiveness and Efficient Algorithms.
Given at ICDT 2007, Barcelona.
MayBMS: Efficient Representation and Processing of Incomplete Information.
Given at Cornell's DB Lunch Nov. 2006, Ithaca.

5.2008 - 8.2008	Summer intern at Google. I worked in the group of Alon Halevy.
SS 2007	TA for undergraduate course Information Systems, Saarland University
WS 2006/07	TA for undergraduate seminar Managing Incomplete Information, Saarland University
SS 2006	TA for undergraduate course Information Systems, Saarland University
2001 - 2003	TA for undergraduate courses "Introduction to Programming", "Object-oriented Programming" and "Data Structures in Programming", Sofia University

The Bulgarian spelling of my name is 'Люблена Антова'. The official transliteration of my first name is 'Lyublena' but I often use 'Lublena' as well.
My home town Vratza, Bulgaria
If you want to see some photos of mine, add 'images' to the URL of the current webpage. Note: I don't want these photos indexed, so please no links to them!

Last modified: 2008-09-01