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University Professor Data Systems Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada |
Distinguished Visiting Professor Tsinghua University Beijing China |
Office: DC 3350 |
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Administrative Coordinator: Alexandra Kraushaar alexandra.kraushaar AT uwaterloo.ca +1 (519) 888-4567 x. 38217 |
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General Information
- Undergraduate internships: I am not going to be admitting any international interns for the foreseeable future. Please do not write to me about internship as I will not be able to respond to individual emails.
- Graduate students: I am not going to be admitting any more graduate student next academic year. I am full right now.
- Driving directions to Waterloo
- Campus map; Please park in the M lot.
Honours and Awards
- Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs, 2022
- IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award, 2022
- Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), 2022
- CS-Can/Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award, 2019
- University Professor, University of Waterloo, 2018
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2016
- Elected Member, The Science Academy, Turkey, 2013
- Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2006
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010
- University Research Chair, University of Waterloo, 2004–2011
- ACM Distinguished Lecturer, 2007–2014
- IBM CAS Canada Research Faculty Fellow, 2010–present
- Cheriton Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 2013–2016; 2018–2021; 2021–2024
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Discovery Accelerator Award, 2013
- University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award, 2004, 2009, 2014
- Ohio State University College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award, 2008
- ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award, 2006
- Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 2000–2003
- McCalla Professor, University of Alberta, 1993–1994
- Sigma Xi – Scientific Research Society Member, 1994–present
- NATO Ph.D. scholarship through TÜ̈BITAK–The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, 1979–1983
Paper Awards
- Test-of-Time Award, ACM SIGMOD (2015) for paper
- L. Chen, M. T. Özsu, and V. Oria. "Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories," In Proc. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2005, pages 491-502.
- Best Paper Award, 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (2022) for paper
- Anil Pacaci, Angela Bonifati and M. Tamer Özsu. Evaluating Complex Queries on Streaming Graphs
- Best Paper Award, 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (2018) for paper
- Siddhartha Sahu, Amine Mhedhbi, Semih Salihoglu, Jimmy Lin and M. Tamer Özsu. The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing
- Best Paper Award, 23rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2018) for paper
- Peng Peng, Leo Zou, M. Tamer Özsu, and Dongyan Zhao. Multi-Query optimization in Federated RDF Systems
- Best Paper Award Honourable Mention, 29th International Conference on Data Engineering (2013) for paper
- Cagri Balkesen, Jens Teubner, Gustavo Alonso, and M. Tamer Özsu. Main-Memory Hash Joins on Multi-Core CPUs: Tuning to the Underlying Hardware
Research
My research is on data management. Although I have done work in basic database technologies such as query processing, transaction processing, and database integration, the main focus of my research follows two threads: (1) application of database technology to non-traditional data types, and (2) distributed & parallel data management.For more information click here.
Teaching
- CS 638 - Principles of Data Management and Use (Fall 2022)
- CS 638 - Principles of Data Management and Use (Fall 2015-2021)
- CS 755 - System and Network Architectures and Implementation (Fall 2013)
- CS 655 - System and Network Architectures and Implementation (Spring 2012, Fall 2012) - Same course as above; this is the previous number.
- CS 742 - Distributed and Parallel Database Systems (Winter 2013); Versions of this course were taught at ETH Zürich (Winter 2006) and at National University of Singapore (Fall 2010)
- CS 748T - Distributed Database Systems (Winter 2001)
- CS 848 - Advanced Topics in Databases: Big Data Management Platforms (Winter 2019)
- CS 848 - Advanced Topics in Databases: Modern Database Systems (Winter 2015)
- CS 856 - Web Data Management (Fall 2002, Winter 2005)
- CS 856 - Internet-Scale Distributed Data Management (Fall 2005)
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Past Undergraduate Courses
- CS 348 - Introduction to Database Management (Fall 2012, Winter 2018)
- CS 338 - Computer Applications in Business: Databases (Fall 2013)
- CS 448/648 - Introduction to Database Management (Winter 2001)
- CS 454/654 - Distributed Systems (Winter 2002, Fall 2002, Winter 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2004)
Current and Upcoming
Past Graduate Courses
Vita
- Short biography
- Full CV (PDF Format)
- My academic geneology
- Some statistics
Publications
Recent Presentations
- A Systematic View of Data Science
- Simon Fraser University Seminar Series on Trustworthy Data Science and AI, 27 April 2022. Poster announcing the talk
- Seoul National University, Korea, May 2022
- Peking University, China, January 2022
- Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco, January 2022
- POSTECH, Korea, February 2022
- Tsinghua University, China, December 2021
- Polytechnic University of Hong Kong Research Centre on Data Science and AI, June 2021.
- Istanbul Technical University Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Application and Research Center, June 2021.
- Distributed RDF Data Management and SPARQL Query Processing
- Keynote at 5th APWeb-WAIM International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, August 2021.
- Hunan University, China, August 2021.
- Stanford Knowledge Graph Seminar, April 2021.
- Streaming Graph Processing and Analytics
- Huawei Science and Technology Week, September 2022.
- Keynote at 14th International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems, 2020.
- Graph Processing: A Panaromic View and Some open Problems
- Keynote at 45th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases 2019.
- Dagstuhl Workshop on Big Graph Processing System , 2019 (shorter version)
- Peking University, China, 2020 (The video is of this presentation)
- Tsinghua University, China, 2020.
- An Introduction to Graph Analytics Platform - Very Short Version
- Keynote at VLDB 2018 workshop on Advances in Mining Large-Scale Time-Dependent Graphs, 2018.
- Web Data Management in RDF Age, Keynote at IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2017.
- Approaches to RDF Data Management and SPARQL Query Processing, INRIA, 2017.
Students, Research Staff and Visitors
Current Activities
Principles of Distributed Database Systems, 4th edition, Springer, 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-26252-5; eText ISBN: 978-3-030-26253-2.
Digital version.
Supplementary material (Presentation slides, JPEG figures, and solutions to some of the exercises.
You can also order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Chapters-Indigo, and of course SpringerChinese translation of third edition by Prof. Li-Zhu Zhou published by Tsinghua University Press.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2nd edition, Springer, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4899-7993-3. See the DBLP page.
- Springer Book Series on Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies, Editorial Board Member
Books
- ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies, Associate Editor
- World Wide Web Journal, Editorial Board Member
- Frontiers of Computer Science, Editorial Board Member
- International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, Advisory Board Member
Journals
- Senior PC Member, EDBT 2023 - 26th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Ioannina, Greece, 28-31 March 2023
- Vice-Chair, ICDE 2023 - 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Anaheim, California, 3–7 April 2023.
Conference
- Advisory/Steering Committee Chair, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong Research Centre on Data Science and AI (2021-present)
- Academic Advisory Committee Member, Istanbul Technical University Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Application and Research Centre (2020-present)
- Advisory Board Member, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (2020-present)
- Technical Advisory Board Member, Tsinghua University National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data Software (2017–present)
- Advisory Board Member, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Big Data Institute (2017-present)
Board Memberships
Selected Past Activities
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ACM Books, Founding Editor-in-Chief (2013-2019)
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Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, Founding Series Editor (2009-2013)
Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) (2001-2005)
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Trustee, VLDB Endowment (1996-2002)
- Board Member, CS-Can/Info-Can (2017-2019)
- Proceedings of VLDB Advisory Board Member, (2014-2021)
- Technical Expert Advisory Committee Member, City University of Hong Kong, Multimedia Software Engineering Research Center (2014-1019)
- ACM Publications Board (2003--2017)
- International Advisory Board Member, National Institute of Informatics, Japan (2011-2018)
- Academic Advisory Committee Member, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, School of Engineering (2009 - 2014 & 2017-2020)
- Advisory Board Chair, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (2014-2017)
- Coordinating Editor-in-Chief, The VLDB Journal (2001-2005; Co-EIC: 1997-2001).
- Associate Editor, ACM Computing Surveys (2005-2009).
- Springer Book Series on Advanced Information & Knowledge Processing, Editorial Board Member (2002-2013)
- Information Technology and Management, Editorial Board Member (2000-2013)
- CRA Board of Directors, Canadian Association of Computer Science (CACS) Representative (2010-2013)
Personal Stuff & Hobbies
- Some pictures: Aklan, Allison-Umut-Emma, Nuran, Nuran, Nuran-Shina, Umut-Shina, Shina, Emma
- I collect pens. For a partial list of the pens I own, click here.
- Some of these are for sale. Click here to find out which ones.
- For a listing of important pen sites on the Web click here.
Countries Visited
visited 29 states (12.8%)
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