Yanif Ahmad   Postdoctoral associate, Dept. of Computer Science, Cornell University.

News:
JAN/09	Defended Ph.D. thesis, started at Cornell.
MAR/08	Received IBM Ph.D. Fellowship '08-09.
FEB/08	Awarded Best Research Paper, ICDE 08.
Travel:
29/JUN-02/JUL/09	SIGMOD 09, Providence, RI.
22/MAY/09	Brown Commencement, Providence, RI.

Bio: I am currently a postdoctoral associate working with Christoph Koch in the Database Group, in the Cornell University Computer Science Department. I completed my Ph.D. in the Database Group at Brown University, in 2009. Prior to this I was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering in Computing as my undergraduate degree from Imperial College in London, UK.

Research interests:
Stream processing, model-based query processing, in-network query processing, approximate queries, indexing, distributed data management, databases, distributed systems.

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Projects:
Pulse - Declarative Temporal Models for Continuous-Time Data Stream Processing.

SenseWeb - A geo-based web interface for publishing and browsing live sensor data.

Borealis - Distributed Stream Processing Engine.

SAND - Scalable Adaptive Network Databases.

XPORT - eXtensible Profile-driven Overlay Routing Trees.

Selected Publications:   [Full list]   [BiBTeX]

Simultaneous Equation Systems for Query Processing on Continuous-Time Data Streams.
Y. Ahmad, O. Papaemmanouil, U. Çetintemel, J. Rogers.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '08).

COLR-Tree: Communication Efficient Spatio-Temporal Index for a Sensor Data Web Portal.
Y. Ahmad, S. Nath.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '08).
Best Research Paper award.

Extensible Optimization in Overlay Dissemination Trees.
O. Papaemmanouil, Y. Ahmad, U. Çetintemel, J. Jannotti, Y, Yildirim.
Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD '06).

Distributed Operation in the Borealis Stream Processing Engine.
with the Borealis Team.
Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD '05).
Best Demonstration award.

The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine.
D. Abadi, Y. Ahmad, M. Balazinska, U. Çetintemel, M. Cherniack, J. Hwang, W. Lindner, A. Rasin, N. Tatbul, Y. Xing, S. Zdonik.
Proceedings of the Second Biennial Conference on Innovative Database Systems (CIDR '05).

Network-Aware Query Processing for Stream-Based Applications.
Y. Ahmad, U. Çetintemel.
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '04).