Teaching and Advising Experience

Courses Taught

Fall 2007: CS/INFO 330: Data-Driven Web Applications at Cornell University

• Upper division undergraduate course, approx. 40 students
• CS/INFO 330 is taken by third and fourth-year undergraduate students. It is offered jointly by the Computer Science department and the Information Science Program. This course introduces students to modern database systems and three-tier application development with a focus on building web-based applications using database systems. Concepts covered include the relational model and query languages, data modeling, normalization, three-tier architectures, Internet data formats and query languages, server- and client-side technologies, and an introduction to web services. Students also build a database-backed website with Java EE technology.

Student Advising

I am currently working with several graduate students, which I co-advise together with a faculty member.

• Mingsheng Hong (Ph.D. student), since Spring 2004: research on data stream processing, implementation of a system prototype
• Biswanath Panda (Ph.D. student), since Spring 2005: research on data management and mining for function approximation
• Daria Sorokina (Ph.D. student), since Spring 2005: research on mining observational ornithology data to discover variable interactions

Previous activities:

• Abhinandan Das (Ph.D. student, first employment: Google), Summer 2002-Summer 2005: research on data stream processing, resulting in 2 publications in ACM SIGMOD (leading database research conference, more prestigious than all journals in the field), 1 publication in IEEE TKDE journal
• Tulika Chandra (MEng student, first employment: Siemens), Spring 2004: building a data mining Web Service
   
• Mentor for several CS 632 projects in Spring 2005: mining of ornithology data (Thomas Finley, Mohamed Elhawary), XML filtering (Kamal Aboul-Hosn, Gun Srijuntongsiri), and distributed data stream processing (Krishnaprasad Vikram)
• Mentor for a team of four undergraduate students for
  implementing a data stream processing system, Spring 2005

Teaching Assistentships

• Teaching assistant for CS 270b at UC Santa Barbara
• Fall quarter 1999, graduate course
• Distributed systems
• Teaching assistant for CS 5J at UC Santa Barbara
• Spring quarter 1999, undergraduate course
• Introduction to Programming in Java
• For CS and non-CS majors
• Teaching assistant for CS 130b at UC Santa Barbara
• Winter quarter 1999, upper division undergraduate course
• Advanced course about data structures and algorithms
• Major programming projects
• Teaching assistant for CS 40 at UC Santa Barbara
• Fall quarter 1998, lower division undergraduate course
• Discrete mathematics and its applications
• Teaching assistant for "Datenbanksysteme" at Saarland University, Saarbrücken
• Winter semester 1996/1997, upper division undergraduate course
• All about database systems, parts on level of graduate courses in US universities
• Teaching assistant for "Informatik I" at Saarland University, Saarbrücken
• Winter semester 1993/1994, lower division undergraduate course
• Programming languages and translation, introduction to data structures