Lyublena Antova

PhD student

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4104 Upson Hall
Cornell University

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+1 (607) 255-9537

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I am graduating at the end of 2009 and I'm looking for a job in industry. Here is my CV.

Education

08.2007 - [expected: 12.2009]	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

Projects

	MayBMS: A Database Management System for Uncertain and Probabilistic Data
	New: MayBMS was released on Sourceforge!

Publications

Conference & Journal

[2009] 10^10⁶ Worlds and Beyond: Efficient Representation and Processing of Incomplete Information.
Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu
Accepted for publication in the Special Issue of the VLDB Journal on Probabilistic Databases. Extended version of the ICDE 2007 paper.
[2009] MayBMS: A Probabilistic Database Management System.
Jiewen Huang, Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu.
Proc. SIGMOD 2009 (Demo paper).
[2009] Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future.
Jayant Madhavan, Loredana Afanasiev, Lyublena Antova, Alon Y. Halevy
CIDR Perspectives 2009. (online version)
[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)

Workshop etc.

[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)

Talks & Posters

MayBMS: A System for Managing Large Amounts of Probabilistic Data.
A-exam talk, Cornell University, Feb. 2009, Ithaca. (pdf file)
On APIs for Probabilistic Databases
Given at Dagstuhl Workshop on Uncertainty Management in Information Systems, Oct 2008, Dagstuhl.
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.

Work & Teaching Experience

5.2009 - 8.2008	Summer intern at Google. I worked in the group of Alon Halevy.
Spring 2009	TA for NBA 5230: Data-Driven Businesses, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
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

Service

ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Uncertain Data (U'09), Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS'10)

Stuff

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, click here
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Last modified: 2009-09-02