People

Faculty

Ashwinkumar Machanavajjhala.computer science faculty.studio headshot Ashwin Machanavajjhala

  • Privacy in statistical databases

  • Privacy in augmented reality systems

  • Systems for massive data analytics

JianPei.computer science faculty.studio headshot Jian Pei

  • Data markets

  • Data mining

  • Business intelligence

  • Spatial-temporal and graph databases and query answering

Roy, Sudeepa Assistant Professor Duke University Department of Computer Science Friday, August 21, 2015 (Photos ©2015 Kevin Seifert Photography | kevin@kevinseifertphotography.com | 919-208-9458) Sudeepa Roy

  • Explanations and causal analysis in databases

  • Data provenance

  • Data repair

  • Database theory

On location studio portrait of Jun Yang
Jun Yang

  • Computational journalism

  • Statistical analysis in cloud

  • Perturbation analysis of database queries


On location studio portrait of Shivnath BabuShivnath Babu

Co-founder/CTO at Unravel Data Systems and Adjunct Professor at Duke University

  • Data Management for new application domains, e.g., Hadoop ecosystem

  • Architectures and algorithms for self-managing database systems


Postdocs



Amir Gilad

 

Graduate Students

 



Yihao Hu


Shweta Patwa


Rickard Stureborg


Yuxi Liu


Chenghong Wang


Haibo Xiu


Fangzhu Shen
(MSEC, to join
PhD in Spring'23)
Danyu Sun (MS)Hanze Meng (MS)

 

Alumni (incomplete list, work in progress!)

NameDegree / Year of graduation / Advisor or HostFirst or current employment
Johes BaterPostdoc / 2022 / Ashwin MachanavajjhalaTufts University (Assistant Professor)
David PujolPhD / 2022 / Ashwin MachanavajjhalaTumult Labs (Scientist)
Zhengjie MiaoPhD / 2022 / Sudeepa RoyMegagon Labs (Researcher)
Yuchao TaoPhD / 2022 / Ashwin MachanavajjhalaSnap Inc.
Xiao HuPostdoc / 2021 / Pankaj K. Agarwal and Jun YangGoogle Research (visiting faculty scholar) and University of Waterloo (Assistant Professor, to join)
Stavros SintosPhD / 2020 / Pankaj K. AgarwalU. Chicago (Postdoc) -> University of Illinois at Chicago (Assistant Professor)
Junyang GaoPhD / 2020 / Jun YangGoogle
Ios KotsogiannisPhD / 2020 / Ashwin MachanavajjhalaSnap Inc.
Mayuresh KunjirPhD / 2019 / Shivnath Babu and Jun YangQCRI (Postdoc)
Prajakta KalmeghPhD / 2019 / Shivnath Babu and Sudeepa RoyUnravel Data
Nisarg RavalPhD / 2019 / Ashwin MachanavajjhalaLinkedin
Xi HePhD / 2018 / Ashwin MachanavajjhalaUniversity of Waterloo (Assistant Professor)
Brett WalenzPhD / 2018 / Jun YangGoogle
Yan ChenPhD / 2018 / Ashwin MachanavajjhalaGoogle
Botong HuangPhD / 2016 / Jun YangMicrosoft
Risi ThonangiPhD / 2015 / Jun YangVMWare
You (Will) Wu PhD / 2015 / Jun YangGoogle
Harold LimPhD / 2013 / Shivnath BabuVMWare
Albert YuPhD / 2013 / Pankaj K. Agarwal and Jun YangAmazon
Nedyalko (Ned) Borisov PhD / 2012 / Shivnath BabuFacebook
Herodotos (Hero) Herodotou PhD / 2012 / Shivnath BabuMicrosoft Research
Yi ZhangPhD / 2012 / Jun YangGoogle
Songyun DuanPhD / 2010 / Shivnath BabuIBM Research
Badrish ChandramouliPhD / 2008 / Jun YangMicrosoft Research
Hao HePhD / 2007 / Jun YangGoogle
Piyush ShivamPhD / 2007 / Jeff Chase and Shivnath BabuSun Micro
Adam SilbersteinPhD / 2007 / Jun YangYahoo! Research
Junyi XiePhD / 2007 / Jun YangOracle