Biosketch

I am a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Puget Sound, where I also served a term as Chair of Computer Science from 2019-22. Prior to my appointment at Puget Sound, I was on the Engineering and Computer Science faculty at Washington State University, Vancouver.

I received a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University (2010) as a member of the Systems Group. Under the supervision of Gagan Agrawal (now Associate Dean at Augusta), I worked on problems in the dynamic composition, performance modeling, and optimizations of scientific workflows over distributed cloud computing environments. I also worked under Paul S. Wang at the Institute of Computational Mathematics (ICM/Kent State) on the transmission of mathematics education modules for my BS/MS degrees. My current teaching and research interests include database management, distributed cloud computing, and the web. I am a member of ACM and a senior member of the IEEE.

I am the recipient of the 2017 Kristine Bartanen Research Award and the 2022 President’s Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Puget Sound.

Here’s a link to my curriculum vitae.

Recent Activities

• (8/2022) We have received an NSF grant to provide travel scholarships to students attending IEEE/ACM UCC 2022 and BDCAT 2022 conferences. I am also chairing the student travel awards committee.
• (5/2022) I am co-chairing the Poster Program at IEEE/ACM UCC 2022 and BDCAT 2022, both to be held in Portland, Oregon in December.
• (4/2022) Promoted to Full Professor, effective July 2022.
• (4/2022) I am serving as a PC member for IDEAS 2022.
• (8/2021) I’m a Faculty Panelist (with Monica DeHart and Melvin Rouse) for the “I Am Puget Sound” student orientation program.
• (7/2021) I am chairing the Demo/Short Paper Session at SSDBM 2021, and I’m also giving a talk, “Caching Support for Range Query Processing on Bitmap Indices.”
• (5/2021) Our paper on bitmap caching has been accepted to SSDBM 2021 as a long paper. Congrats to Sarah McClain (BS’20), Manya Mutschler-Aldine (BS’21), and Colin Monaghan (BS’22).
• (6/2020) Elevation to IEEE Senior Member grade.
• (4/2020) Congrats to Colin Monaghan on receiving a summer research grant to study replacement policies in bitmap index caching.
• (2/2020) Our paper on optimizing GPU processing of bitmaps has been accepted for publication at DASFAA 2020.
• (10/2019) Our paper on GPU processing of bitmap-range queries has been accepted for publication at BDCAT 2019. It was nominated for the Best Paper award.
• (4/2019) Our paper on geo-diversification has been accepted for publication at IEEE CLOUD 2019 in Milan, Italy. Congrats to Jared Polonitza on his first publication.
• (4/2019) Congrats to Sarah McClain on receiving a summer research grant to work on semantic caching of bitmap indices.
• (3/2019) I am serving on the PC for HiPC’19. Please consider submitting a paper.
• (10/2018) Our paper on distributed bitmap indexing has been accepted for publication at BDCAT’18. It was nominated for the Best Paper award.

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