VASSILIS J. TSOTRAS
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Bourns College of Engineering
University of California - Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521

ENGR II Building, Room 335
Tel: 951-827-2888
Fax: 951-827-4643
Email: tsotrasATcs.ucr.edu


 

EDUCATION-WORK

Ph.D. (1991), Columbia University, NY
M.Sc. (1986), M.Phil. (1988), Columbia University, NY
B.Sc. (1985), National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 
Professor (2001-present)
Associate Professor (1997-2001)
      Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
      University of California, Riverside, CA

Associate Professor (1996-97)
Assistant Professor (1990-96)
      Department of Computer and Information Science,
      Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS - FUNDED RESEARCH

Database management, access methods, evolving databases, temporal databases,
spatiotemporal databases, spatiotemporal knowledge management,
spatiotemporal change management, sensor data, querying complex objects,
evolving systems design, multi-version schema evolution, XML query processing, wireless data dissemination.
 

DATABASE LAB

Lab's Web Page
 

AWARDS/HONORS

. National Science Foundation, Research Initiation Award, 1991.
. College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, UCR, 1999-00.
. Keynote Speaker, 10th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Boston, MA, 2007.
. Keynote Speaker, 7th Seventh International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE), Vancouver, Canada, 2008.
 

BOOK

Advanced Database Indexing, by Yannis Manolopoulos, Yannis Theodoridis and Vassilis J. Tsotras.
Kluwer International Series on Advances in Database Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston,
ISBN 0-7923-7716-8, November 1999, 312 pp.
 

RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Co-Editor in Chief, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), World Scientific, January 2008 - present.
Associate Editor, The VLDB Journal, Sept. 2003 - present.
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Sept. 2002 - Sept. 2006.

General Co-Chair: 26th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2010, Los Angeles, CA.
Demos Co-Chair: 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2009, Shanghai, China.
Program Chair (DB Track): 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006).
General Chair: 7th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD'01).
Program Co-Chair: 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS'99).
PC member: SIGMOD'08, ICDE'08, SIGMOD'07, ICDE'07, VLDB'06, ICDE'05, ICDE'04, VLDB'03,
                   SIGMOD'02, ICDE'02, EDBT'02, ICDE'01, VLDB'00, ICDE'00, EDBT'00, SIGMOD'99 etc.
 

SELECT RECENT PUBLICATIONS
 

PhD STUDENTS
Anil Kumar (1998; Bloomberg Corp., NY)
George Kollios (2000; Boston University, Boston)
Donghui Zhang (2002; Northeastern University, Boston)
Marios Hadjieleftheriou (2004; AT&T Research, NJ))
Zografoula Vagena (2005; Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
Mirella Moro (2007; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil)
Petko Bakalov (2008; ESRI)
Marcos R. Vieira (in progress)
Adam Woss (in progress)
Mariam Salloum (in progress)
Wanxing Xu (in progress)
 

MSc STUDENTS
Nickolas Kangelaris (1994; Oracle, Greece)
Lifei Tan (1999; Lam Research, CA)
Theodore Folias (2003)
Anil Musku (2003; Amazon, CA)
Priya Mandawat (2005; Google, CA)
Yunzhu (Julie) Shi (2006; ESRI, CA)
Ali Mirzabeigi (in progress)
Michael Rice (in progress)
 
 

CS260: Seminar in Databases