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Colloquium Coordinator: Demetris Zeinalipour
Colloquium: Query Operators and Systems for the Mobile Big Data Era, Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, January 15, 2018, 10.30-11.30 EET.
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus cordially invites you to the Colloquium entitled:
Query Operators and Systems for the Mobile Big Data Era
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Speaker: Demetris Zeinalipour |
Abstract:
Big data architectures have transformed the way enterprises collect, store and analyze massive amounts of spatio-temporal data from the mobile workforce. In this talk, I will present operators and systems for querying and managing such Mobile Big Data (MBD), that address challenges of performance, privacy, utility and network efficiency. I will start out by overviewing Anyplace, our Internet-based Indoor Navigation service that won several international research awards for its accuracy and utility. Particularly, I will discuss the challenges in prefetching and privacy-aware data processing of Indoor MBD (e.g., Wi-Fi and magnetic signals). My talk will be succeeded by a summary of Rayzit, which is an award-winning location-based crowd messaging service that allows a mobile crowd to instantly connect to its k Nearest Neighbors (kNN) as they move in space. I will particularly focus on Spitfire, which is a distributed algorithm that provides a scalable and high-performance All k Nearest Neighbor processing operator to Rayzit. I will then overview Spate, which is a novel spatio-temporal data processing and analytic system for telecommunication data (e.g., CDR and MR), which makes compression and decaying a first-class citizen. Finally, I will be concluding with an outlook to our current and future research agenda.
Short Bio:
Demetris Zeinalipour is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus, where he founded and directs the Data Management Systems Laboratory (DMSL). He holds a Ph.D. (2005) and M.Sc. (2003) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California - Riverside, CA, USA and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus (2000). Before his current appointment, he served the University of Cyprus and the Open University of Cyprus as a Lecturer of Computer Science. He has held short-term research visits at Akamai Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA (2004), the University of Athens, Greece (2007), as a Marie-Curie Fellow, and the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2015). During 2016-2017, he was a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2017-2020), a Senior Member of ACM, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of USENIX, serves on the editorial board of Distributed and Parallel Databases (Elsevier) and Big Data Research (Springer) and is an independent evaluator for the European Commission (Marie Curie and COST). His primary research interests include Data Management in Computer Systems and Networks, particularly Mobile and Sensor Data Management; Big Data Management in Parallel and Distributed Architectures; Spatio-Temporal Data Management; Network and Telco Data Management; Crowd, Web 2.0 and Indoor Data Management; Data Privacy Management. For more information please visit: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/
Note:
This colloquium is part of the speaker's procedure for evaluation and promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor.
