George Kollios Associate Professor  Department of Computer Science MCS 288 Boston University  111 Cummington Street   Boston, MA, 02215  gkollios@cs.bu.edu Tel: 617-358-1835  Fax: 617-353-6457

Database Lab @ BU
 
Selected Recent Publications

• V. Athitsos, P. Papapetrou, M. Potamias, G. Kollios, and D. Gunopulos. Approximate Embedding-Based Subsequence Matching of Time Series. To Appear in the Proc. of the 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.
  
• K. Yi, F. Li, M. Hadjieleftheriou, D. Srivastava, and G. Kollios. Randomized Synopses for Query Assurance on Data Streams. Proc. of the 24th IEEE ICDE International Conference on Data Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.
  
• V. Athitsos, M. Potamias, P. Papapetrou, and G. Kollios. Nearest Neighbor Retrieval Using Distance-Based Hashing. Proc. of the 24th IEEE ICDE International Conference on Data Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.
  
• Y. Yang, S. Papadopoulos, D. Papadias, and G. Kollios. Spatial Outsourcing for Location-based Services. Proc. of the 24th IEEE ICDE International Conference on Data Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.
  
• F. Li, K. Yi, M. Hadjieleftheriou, and G. Kollios. Proof-Infused Streams: Enabling Authentication of Sliding Window Queries On Streams. Proc. of the 33rd VLDB International Conference on Very Large Databases, Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
  
• S. Papadimitriou, F. Li, G. Kollios, and P.S. Yu. Time Series Compressibility and Privacy. Proc. of the 33rd VLDB International Conference on Very Large Databases, Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
  
• V. Athitsos, M. Hadjieleftheriou, G. Kollios, and  S.  Sclaroff. Query-Sensitive Embeddings. ACM TODS, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2007.
  
• N. Laoutaris, G. Zervas, A. Bestavros, and G. Kollios. The Cache Inference Problem and its Application to Content and Request Routing. Proc. of the 26th IEEE INFOCOM Annual Conference on Computer Communications, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007.
  
• F. Li, M.  Hadjieleftheriou, G. Kollios, and  L.  Reyzin. Dynamic Authenticated Index Structures for Outsourced Databases. Proc. of the 25th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Chicago, Illinois, June 2006.
  

Full list of publications.

Selected Professional Service

• Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Jan 2008-now.
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Sept 2006-now.
• General Chair: SSTD 2007.
• Co-organizer: NetDB 2008 NSF IDM 2004 Workshop.
• Recent Program Committee Memberships: KDD 2008,  VLDB 2008,  ICDE 2008,  SSDBM 2008.

• Best Paper Award, IEEE ICDE, 2004.
  
• National Science Foundation, CAREER Award, 2002.
• Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award, Polytechnic University, New York, 2001.

• Panagiotis Papapetrou
• Michalis Potamias

• Feifei Li (PhD) (now at FSU)
• Vassilis Athitsos (Post-Doc) (now at UT Arlington)
• Marios Hadjieleftheriou (Post-Doc) (now at AT&T Shannon Labs)
• Ching Chang (MA) (now at Microsoft)
• Yangui Tao (MA) (now at EBay Inc)
• Bogdan Buricea (MA) (now at IBM Romania)

• Spring 2008: CS 460/660 Introduction to Database Systems
  
• Past Courses:
• CS565: F07 - Data Mining
  
• CS460/660: S05, S06 - Introduction to Database Systems
  
• CS562: F01, F02, F03, F04, F05 - Advanced Database Applications
  
• CS560: S01, S02, S03, S04 - Introduction to Database Systems
• CS113: S02 - Introduction to Computer Science II with Intensive C++
• CS591: F00 - Seminar in Databases

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