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Ramez Elmasri

Dr. Elmasri is a professor and the associate chairman in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Elmasri received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt, in 1972. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at Stanford University in 1980.

Current Research Interests

Big Data Sciences (Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis and Mining, Extracting Knowledge from raw Data, Enviromental and Tracking Applications), Distributed Computing (Map-Reduce Algorithms for Data Analysis), Spatial Clustering Algorithms, Spatio-Temporal Predictions, Spatio-Temporal Indexing, NOSQL systems performance comparision.

Other Research Experience

Databases (Conceptual Modeling, XML, Temporal Databases, Indexing, Query Languages, Object Databases, DBMS Implementation Techniques, Schema Integration), Sensor Networks (Querying, Indexing, Energy Efficient Data Collection, Integration with RFID, Sensor Architectures), Using RFID for Object Localization, Bioinformatics Databases (Data Sources Integration, Mediators, Conceptual Modeling, Ontologies), Recommender Systems, Web Services, Semantic Web, XML (Keyword-based Querying, Indexing, Distributed XML, Caching), Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Systems Integration, Object-Oriented Software Development, Networked Information Systems, Programming Languages.

Formal Education

  • Stanford University - Stanford, California
    • Ph.D in Computer Science, 1980
    • M.S. in Computer Science, 1980
  • Alexandria University - Alexandria, Egypt
    • B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Computers and Automatic Controls, 1972

Career

Ramez Elmasri was appointed as a faculty member at IFRICS (Institute for Retraining in Computer Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York where he taught the Database Course at the institute from 1984-85. He was also a summer research fellow at the Rome Air Development Center, Rome Laboratory, Rome, New York in 1987. He there conducted research on incorporating Databases for distributed real-time systems. He has also worked as a consultant for Bell Communication Research (now Telcordia Technologies) at Piscataway, New Jersey in 1989 where he conducted research on Data models, Query languages and Indexing techniques for temporal databases.

In 1990 he conducted research on enhancing capabilities of the Data cycle architecture. He was also a visiting professor at The University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland where he conducted research on active and Object Oriented databases in 1991.

He was appointed as a faculty associate at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute (ARRI), The University of Texas at Arlington, Fort Worth, Texas. His research there focused on System Integration, Object Oriented Software, Concurrent Engineering and Agile Manufacturing. He was also a Principal Research Scientist at Honeywell International, Inc., Corporate Technology Center, Bloomington, Minnesota where he worked on design and implementation of the DDTS (Distributed Database Testbed System) from 1980-82. From 1982-90 he was a faculty member at The University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Since 1990 he has been a faculty member at The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas where he has also been Associate Chair, Computer Science and Engineering Department since 2011. From 2003-current he has been a consultant for various law firms where he has consulted on Patent Analysis and Patent Infringement cases and on Software Copyright Infringement cases.

Some Famous Publications

  • Fundamentals of Database Systems. "Seventh Edition", with S. Navathe, Addison-Wesley Pearson, 2016
    • Previous Edition published in 2011, 2007, 2000, 1994, 1989
  • Operating Systems: A Spiral Approach, with A.G. Carrick and D. Levine, McGraw-Hill, 2009.
  • Analysis of Rainfall Data for Automatic Storm Identification, with K.Jitkajornwanich, J.McEnery, and C.Li, in Proceedings of the 2012 BigSpatial Workshop of the ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference (SIGSPATIAL 2012), Redondo Beach, California, November 2012.
  • Passive UHF RFID based Localization Using Detection of Tag Interference on Smart Shelf, with J.Choi, H.Lee, and D.Engels, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 42, No. 2, March 2012.
  • XCDSearch: An XML Context Driven Search Engine, with K.Taha, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 22, No.12, December 2010.
  • A Static Evidential Network for Context Reasoning in Home-based Care, with H.Lee and J.Choi, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part A-Systems and Humans, Vol. 40, No.6, November 2010.
  • Mediated Taxonomy System for Bioinformatics Data Integration, with F.Ji and J.Fu, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2007), San Jose, California, November 2007.
  • Modeling Concepts and Database Implementation Techniques for Complex Biological Data, with F.Ji, J.Fu, Y.Zhang, and Z.Raja, International Journal on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2007.
  • Conceptual Modeling for Customized XML Schemas, with Q.Li, J.Fu, Y.Wu, B.Hojabri and S.Ande, Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, Vol. 54, Elsevier, 2005.
  • Optimizing Clustering Algorithm in Mobile Ad hoc Networks Using Genetic Algorithmic Approach, with D.Turgut, B.Turgut and S.Das, IEEE GLOBECOM Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2002.
  • Query Engines for Web Accessible XML Data, with L.Fegaras, 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB-2001), Rome, Italy, September 2001.
  • Architecture of WebOntEx: A System for Web Ontology Extraction, with H.Han, 5th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI 2001), Orlando, Florida, July 2001.
  • Schema Versioning and Database Conversion Techniques for Bi-Temporal Databases, with H.Wei, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Journal, Vol. 30, Baltzer Scientific, 2001.
  • A Temporal Algebra for an ER-Based Temporal Data Model, with J.Lee, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-2001), Heidelberg, Germany, April 2001.
  • An EER-Based Conceptual Model and Query Language for Time-Series Data, with J.Lee, 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’98), Singapore, November 1998 (Proceedings published as LNCS, Volume 1507, T.Ling (editor), Springer-Verlag, 1998).
  • A Temporal Object Query Language, with L.Fegaras, IEEE 5th International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME-98), Sanibel Island, Florida, May 1998.
  • An Integrated Data Model Incorporating Time-Series Concepts, with J.Lee and J.Won, Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, North-Holland, 1998.
  • Specification of Calendars and Time Series for Temporal Databases, with J.Lee and J.Won, 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’96), Cottbus, Germany, October 1996 (Proceedings published as LNCS, Volume 1157, B.Thalheim (editor), Springer-Verlag, 1996).
  • M-IVTT: A Practical Index for Bi-Temporal Databases, with M.Nascimento and M.Dunham, 7th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA’96), Zurich, Switzerland, September 1996 (Proceedings published as LNCS, Volume 1134, Springer-Verlag, 1996).
  • Efficient Temporal Join Processing Using Time Index, with D.Son, 8th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDM’96), Stockholm, Sweden, June 1996.
  • The Systems Integration Architecture (SIA): An Agile Information Infrastructure, with J.Mills, K.Khan, S.Miriyala and K.Subramanian, IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on Information Systems Development for Decentralized Organizations, Trondheim, Norway, August 1995.
  • The Time Index+: An Incremental Access Structure for Temporal Databases, with V.Kouramajian, I.Kamel and S.Waheed, 3rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-94), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 1994.
  • A Consensus Glossary of Temporal Database Concepts, with R.Snodgrass et. al., ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994.
  • A Temporal Query Language Based on Conceptual Entities and Roles, with V.Kouramajian, 11th International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach (ER-92), Karlsruhe, Germany, October 1992.
  • The Time Index: An Access Structure for Temporal Data, with G.Wuu and Y.Kim, 16th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB-90), Brisbane, Australia, August 1990.
  • A Graphical Data Manipulation Language for an Extended Entity-Relationship Model, with B.Czejdo and M.Rusinkiewicz, IEEE Computer, Vol. 23, No. 3, March 1990.
  • A Temporal Model and Query Language for ER Databases, with G.Wuu, 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-90), Los Angeles, California, February 1990.
  • A Theory of Attribute Equivalence in Databases with Applications to Schema Integration, with J.Larson and S.Navathe, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1989.
  • Fragmentation and Query Decomposition in the ECR Model, with P.Srinivas, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-87), Los Angeles, California, February 1987.
  • Integrating User Views in Database Design, with J.Larson and S.Navathe, IEEE Computer, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1986.
  • A Graphical Query Facility for ER Databases, with J.Larson, 4th International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach (ER-85), Chicago, Illinois, October 1985.
  • The Category Concept: An Extension to the Entity-Relationship Model, with J.Weeldreyer and A.Hevner, Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, North-Holland, 1985.
  • Relationship Merging in Schema Integration, with S.Navathe and T.Sashidhar, 10th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB-84), Singapore, August 1984.
  • Design of DDTS: A Reliable Distributed Database Testbed System, with C.Devor and S.Rahimi, 2nd IEEE Symposium on Reliability in Distributed Systems, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 1982.
  • GORDAS: A Formal High-Level Query Language for the Entity-Relationship Model, with G.Wiederhold, 2nd International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach (ER-81), Washington, D.C., October 1981.
  • The Structural Model for Database Design, with G.Wiederhold, 1st International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach (ER-79), Los Angeles, California, December 1979.
  • Data Model Integration Using the Structural Model, with G.Wiederhold, 5th ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD-79), Boston, Massachusetts, May 1979.

Honors, Awards and Patents

  1. Fulbright Specialist, January 2011 – present.
  2. UTA College of Engineering Faculty Development Leave, Fall 2002.
  3. Robert Q. Lee Teaching Excellence Award, College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, February 1999.
  4. The Time Index Access Structure for Temporal Databases Having Concurrent Multiple Versions, US Patent 5,440,730 with G. Wuu Bellcore, 1995.

Teaching

  • Courses taught at The University of Texas at Arlington
    • Undergraduate level
      • CSE 3302: Programming Languages
      • CSE 3320: Operating Systems
      • CSE 3330: Database Systems and File Structures
      • CSE 4331: Database Implementation and Theory
  • Courses taught at The University of Houston
    • Graduate level
      • COSC 6340: Data Management
      • COSC 6372: Computer Graphics
      • COSC 7340: Advanced Data Management
      • COSC 6397: Seminar on Real-Time Concepts
    • Undergraduate level
      • COSC 3320: Information Structures
      • COSC 3340: File Structures (this course was later incorporated into COSC 3480)
      • COSC 3480: File and Database systems
      • COSC 4320: Introduction to Database Systems (later incorporated into COSC 3480)
      • COSC 4330: Operating Systems
      • COSC 4370: Interactive Computer Graphics

PHD STUDENTS

  • Neelabh Pant, expected to graduate in 2018, areas of research: spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis and mining.
  • Ezequiel Aguilar Gonzalez, expected to graduate in 2018, areas of research: spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis and mining.
  • Mohammadhani Fouladgar, expected to graduate in 2017, areas of research: spatio-temporal data modeling and analysis.
  • Susi Huaman de la Vega, expected to graduate in 2017, areas of research: spatio-temporal prediction.
  • Madhuri Debnath, expected to graduate in 2016, areas of research: spatial data clustering.
  • Praveen Tripathi, expected to graduate in 2016, areas of research: spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis.
  • Nandish Jayaram (co-supervisor with Chengkai Li), graduate year 2015, areas of research: graph querying by example.
  • Kulsawasd Jitkajornwanich, Dissertation Title: Analysis and Modeling Techniques for Geo-Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Sets, graduated on April 2014, currently working as a Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand
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