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 Babu Shivnath 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!)

Name Degree / Year of graduation / Advisor or Host First or current employment
Johes Bater Postdoc / 2022 / Ashwin Machanavajjhala Tufts University (Assistant Professor)
David Pujol PhD / 2022 / Ashwin Machanavajjhala Tumult Labs (Scientist)
Zhengjie Miao PhD / 2022 / Sudeepa Roy Megagon Labs (Researcher)
Yuchao Tao PhD / 2022 / Ashwin Machanavajjhala Snap Inc.
Xiao Hu Postdoc / 2021 / Pankaj K. Agarwal and Jun Yang Google Research (visiting faculty scholar) and University of Waterloo (Assistant Professor, to join)
Stavros Sintos PhD / 2020 / Pankaj K. Agarwal U. Chicago (Postdoc) -> University of Illinois at Chicago (Assistant Professor)
Junyang Gao PhD / 2020 / Jun Yang Google
Ios Kotsogiannis PhD / 2020 / Ashwin Machanavajjhala Snap Inc.
Mayuresh Kunjir PhD / 2019 / Shivnath Babu and Jun Yang QCRI (Postdoc)
Prajakta Kalmegh PhD / 2019 / Shivnath Babu and Sudeepa Roy Unravel Data
Nisarg Raval PhD / 2019 / Ashwin Machanavajjhala Linkedin
Xi He PhD / 2018 / Ashwin Machanavajjhala University of Waterloo (Assistant Professor)
Brett Walenz PhD / 2018 / Jun Yang Google
Yan Chen PhD / 2018 / Ashwin Machanavajjhala Google
Botong Huang PhD / 2016 / Jun Yang Microsoft
Risi Thonangi PhD / 2015 / Jun Yang VMWare
You (Will) Wu PhD / 2015 / Jun Yang Google
Harold Lim PhD / 2013 / Shivnath Babu VMWare
Albert Yu PhD / 2013 / Pankaj K. Agarwal and Jun Yang Amazon
Nedyalko (Ned) Borisov PhD / 2012 / Shivnath Babu Facebook
Herodotos (Hero) Herodotou PhD / 2012 / Shivnath Babu Microsoft Research
Yi Zhang PhD / 2012 / Jun Yang Google
Songyun Duan PhD / 2010 / Shivnath Babu IBM Research
Badrish Chandramouli PhD / 2008 / Jun Yang Microsoft Research
Hao He PhD / 2007 / Jun Yang Google
Piyush Shivam PhD / 2007 / Jeff Chase and Shivnath Babu Sun Micro
Adam Silberstein PhD / 2007 / Jun Yang Yahoo! Research
Junyi Xie PhD / 2007 / Jun Yang Oracle