Curriculum Vitae

George Andrei Mihaila

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
19 Skyline Drive
Hawthorne, N.Y. 10532
United States of America

Phone: (914)784-7803
E-Mail: mihaila@us.ibm.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS
My current research interests include: Web query languages; declarative semantics of query
languages; Web-based information discovery; scalable architectures for locating and accessing
distributed heterogeneous data sources; XML storage, indexing and querying; data integration;
distributed continuous queries; data warehousing.
EDUCATION
Sep.1986-Jun.1991 University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics

• obtained a BSc. in Computer Science in June 1990

• graduated with a MSc. in Computer Science in June 1991

Sep.1994-Aug.2000 University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science

• obtained the MSc. degree in June 1996

Thesis: "WebSQL - An SQL-like Query Language for the World Wide Web".

• graduated with a PhD. degree in Computer Science in November 2000

Thesis: "Publishing, Locating, and Querying Networked Information Sources".

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mar.2001-present IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Hawthorne, New York, U.S.A.
Research Staff Member

• Research in data integration, event processing, data warehousing, data compression and
query processing.
Sep.2002-May.2008 IEOR Department, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.
Adjunct Associate Professor

• Taught data modeling course “Information and Planning Systems”

Dec.2000-Feb.2001 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Hawthorne, New York, U.S.A.
Advisory Software Engineer

• Contributed to the development of XAS (XML Access Server) a middleware application

for XML-based data integration.

Sep.2000-Nov.2000 University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science. Toronto,

Ontario, Canada
Research Assistant (full time)

• Contributed to the design and implementation of ToX (the Toronto XML Repository), a
document repository for XML.

Sep.1994-Nov.2000 University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science. Toronto,

Ontario, Canada
Research Assistant (part-time)

• Design and implementation of WebSemantics, a system for publishing, locating, and

accessing heterogeneous data sources over the World Wide Web.

• Design and implementation of WebSQL, a declarative, SQL-like query language for the
World Wide Web.
Teaching Assistant

• Tutorials of "Introduction to Computer Science" (Programming)

Jun.1999-Sep.1999 COMPAQ Systems Research Centre, Palo Alto, California, USA

Summer Intern

• Design and implementation of Hilltop, a Web search engine based on expert documents.
The engine uses a connectivity-based approach to improve precision for broad queries.
Jul.1997, Jan.1997, Jul.96-Aug.96 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt, France
Invited Researcher

• Design of the WebSemantics architecture and query language.

May.1993-Aug.1994 Ahearn & Soper Inc. Rexdale, Ontario, Canada

Programmer/Analyst

• Maintenance and development of a system of MS-WINDOWS applications (TPM-

Transaction Processor Manager) that supports the serial communication between an
automated data collection device and a host PC, allows data validation against remote
databases and enables updates of local and remote databases.

Oct.1990-Feb.1993 University of Bucharest, Department of Computer Science. Bucharest,

Romania
Assistant Lecturer

• Tutorials of "Foundations of Computer Science" (Language Processors, Graph Theory,

Algorithms) and "Flowchart Schemes" and laboratories of "PASCAL programming".

Sep.1992-Feb.1993 CIEL-Rom. Bucharest, Romania

Programmer/Analyst

• Development of a MS-WINDOWS version of an old Clipper Accounting application

using Borland C, SDK and dbVista.

Jun.1991-Aug.1992 OMNIS Group Ltd. Bucharest, Romania

Programmer/Analyst

• Development of database management MS-WINDOWS applications for sales and

procurement of the Belgian Refining Co.

• Maintenance and enhancements of an X-WINDOWS medical imaging application

(MELANIE) in co-operation with a team from the University of Geneva.
Sep.1990-Feb.1991 Research Institute for Informatics (ICI) Bucharest, Romania
Programmer/Analyst

• Programming for Object Oriented DBMS research prototypes.

PUBLICATIONS
Book

• G. Mihaila. Publishing, Locating and Querying Networked Information Sources. The

Romanian Academy Publishing House, June 2001, ISBN: 973-27-0822-0

Journal Publications

• Ioana Stanoi, George A. Mihaila, Themis Palpanas, Christian A. Lang. WhiteWater:

Distributed Processing of Fast Streams. Accepted IEEE Transactions on Knowledge
and Data Engineering 19(9): 1214-1226 (2007)

• Themis Palpanas, Pawan Chowdhary, George Mihaila, Florian Pinel. Integrated

Model-Driven Dashboard Development. Information Systems Frontiers 9(2-3): 195-
208 2007
• P. Chowdhary, K. Bhaskaran, N.S. Caswell, H. Chang, T. Chao, S-K. Chen, M. Dikun, H.
Lei, J.-J. Jeng, S. Kapoor, C. Lang, G. A. Mihaila, I. Stanoi and L. Zeng. Model Driven
Development for Business Performance Management. In IBM Systems Journal. Vol.
45, No. 3, July/Sept. 2006.
• George A. Mihaila, Louiqa Raschid, Anthony Tomasic. Locating and accessing data
repositories with WebSemantics. In VLDB Journal Vol 11, No. 1, 2002.

• Krishna Bharat, George A. Mihaila. When Experts Agree: Using Non-Affiliated

Experts to Rank Popular Topics In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 20,
No. 1, January 2002, pp. 47-58

• George A. Mihaila, Louiqa Raschid, Maria-Esther Vidal. Source Selection and Ranking
in the WebSemantics Architecture Using Quality of Data Metadata, In Advances in
Computers, Vol. 55, Academic Press, July 2001, pp. 870118, ISBN: 0120121557.

• Alberto O. Mendelzon, George A. Mihaila, Tova Milo. Querying the World Wide Web,
In Journal of Digital Libraries 1(1), pp. 68-88, 1997.

• Virgil E. Cazanescu, George A. Mihaila. Infinite flowchart schemes, In Analele

Universitatii din Bucuresti, Matematica, 41, 2, pp.35-45, 1992 .
 • Virgil E. Cazanescu, George A. Mihaila. Partial flowchart schemes, In Studii si
Cercetari Matematice, 43, 1-2, pp.11-23, 1991

Conference Publications

• George A. Mihaila, Ioana Stanoi, Christian A. Lang. Anomaly-free incremental output

in stream processing. CIKM 2008: 359-368

• Yuan-Chi Chang, Pietro Mazzoleni, George A. Mihaila, David Cohn. Solving the Service
Composition Puzzle. IEEE SCC (2) 2008: 387-394

• Feifei Li, Jimeng Sun, Spiros Papadimitriou, George A. Mihaila, Ioana Stanoi. Hiding in
the Crowd: Privacy Preservation on Evolving Streams through Correlation
Tracking. IEEE International Conference On Data Engineering ICDE 2007

• Philippe Michiels, George A. Mihaila, Jerome Simeon. Put a Tree Pattern in Your
Algebra. IEEE International Conference On Data Engineering ICDE 2007

• Ioana Stanoi, George A. Mihaila, Themis Palpanas, Christian A. Lang. Maximizing the
sustained throughput of distributed continuous queries. International Conference On
Information And Knowledge Management CIKM 2006: pp. 834-835

• Pawan Chowdhary, George A. Mihaila, Hui Lei. Model Driven Data Warehousing for
Business Performance Management. ICEBE 2006: pp. 483-487

• George A. Mihaila, Ioana Stanoi. A Tree for All Seasons. IDEAS 2006: pp. 3-10

• Cindy X. Chen, George A. Mihaila, Sriram Padmanabhan, Isabelle Rouvellou. Query

translation scheme for heterogeneous XML data sources. WIDM 2005: pp. 31-38

• George A. Mihaila, Felix Naumann, Louiqa Raschid, Maria-Esther Vidal. A Data Model
and Query Language to Explore Enhanced Links and Paths in Life Science Sources.
WebDB 2005: pp. 133-138

• Yi Chen, George A. Mihaila, Susan B. Davidson, Sriram Padmanabhan. EXPedite: a

system for encoded XML processing. International Conference On Information And
Knowledge Management CIKM 2004. pp. 108-117

• Oded Shmueli, George A. Mihaila, Sriram Padmanabhan. Query-Customized Rewriting

and Deployment of DB-to-XML Mappings. International Conference on Extending
Database Technology EDBT 2004: pp. 274-291

• Yi Chen, George A. Mihaila, Rajesh Bordawekar, Sriram Padmanabhan. L-Tree: A

Dynamic Labeling Structure for Ordered XML Data. EDBT Workshops 2004: pp.
209-218
• Minos N. Garofalakis, Ioana Manolescu, Marco Mesiti, George A. Mihaila, Ralf
Schenkel, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Vasilis Vassalos. What's Next in XML and
Databases? EDBT Workshops 2004: pp. 318-324

• Nianjun Zhou, George A. Mihaila, Dikran S. Meliksetian. XML Data Mediator

Integrated Solution for Roundtrip from XML to Relational. International World Wide
Web Conference WWW 2004 Posters: pp. 424-425

• Ioana Stanoi, George A. Mihaila, Sriram Padmanabhan: A Framework for the Selective
Dissemination of XML Documents based on Inferred User Profiles. IEEE
International Conference On Data Engineering ICDE 2003: pp. 531-542

• Alberto O. Mendelzon, George A. Mihaila. Querying Partially Sound and Complete

Data Sources. ACM PODS 2001

• Krishna Bharat, George A. Mihaila. When Experts Agree: Using Non-Affiliated

Experts to Rank Popular Topics. International World Wide Web Conference WWW10,
pp. 597-602

• Denilson Barbosa, Attila Barta, Alberto O. Mendelzon, George A. Mihaila, Flavio

Rizzolo, Patricia Rodriguez-Guianolli. ToX - the Toronto XML Engine In Workshop on
Information Integration on the Web 2001, pp. 66-73

• George A. Mihaila, Louiqa Raschid, Maria-Esther Vidal. Using Quality of Data

Metadata for Source Selection and Ranking In Third International Workshop on the
Web and Databases, WebDB'2000, Dallas, Texas, May 2000.

• George A. Mihaila, Louiqa Raschid, Maria-Esther Vidal. Querying “Quality of Data”

Metadata In Third IEEE META-DATA Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, April 1999.

• George A. Mihaila, Louiqa Raschid, Anthony Tomasic. Equal Time for Data on the
Internet with WebSemantics. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on
Extending Database Technology, EDBT'98, pp. 87-101. Valencia, Spain, March 1998.

• Gustavo Arocena, Alberto O. Mendelzon, George A. Mihaila. Applications of a Web

Query language, In Proceedings of the 6th International WWW Conference, Santa Clara,
California, April 1997.

• Mendelzon, G. Mihaila, T. Milo. Querying the World Wide Web, In Fourth

International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, PDIS'96,
Miami Beach, Florida, USA, December 1996. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996 ISBN
0-8186-7475-X, pp. 80-91

• G. Arocena, A. Mendelzon, G. Mihaila. Query languages for the Web, In W3C Query
Languages Workshop (QL'98), Boston, Massachussets, December 1998.

• G. Mihaila, L. Raschid. Locating data repositories using XML, In W3C Query

Languages Workshop (QL'98), Boston, Massachussets, December 1998.
PATENTS
GRANTED:

• US7418453. Updating a data warehouse schema based on changes in an observation

model.

• US7363317. Memory efficient XML shredding with partial commit.

• US7346604. Method for ranking hypertext search results by analysis of hyperlinks from
expert documents and keyword scope.

• US7313563. Method, system and recording medium for maintaining the order of nodes in
a hierarchical document.

• US7219102. Method, computer program product, and system converting relational data
into hierarchical data structure based upon tagging trees.

• US 7185024. Method, Computer Program Product, and System of Optimized Data

Translation from Relational Data Storage to Hierarchical Structure.
PENDING:

• US20070067343A1. Determining the Structure Of Relations And Content Of Tuples

From XML Schema Components.

• US20070005612A1. Methods and Systems for Optimizing Searches within Relational

Databases Having Hierarchical Data.

• US20080209568A1. Preserving Privacy of Data Streams using Dynamic Correlations.

• US20080205641A1. Preserving Privacy of One-Dimensional Data Streams using

Dynamic Autocorrelation.

• US20080201300A1. Method and System for Storing and Accessing Large Scale
Ontologies Using a Relational Database.

• US20080183657A1. Method and Apparatus for Providing Direct Access to Unique

Hierarchical Data Items.

• Us20080154936A1. Event Generation for XML Schema Components During XML

Processing in a Streaming Event Model.

• US20060190468A1. Techniques for Improving Memory Access Patterns in Tree-Based

Data Index Structures.

• US20060184552A1. Memory Efficient XML Shredding With Partial Commit.

• US20060074963A1. Techniques for Estimating Item Frequencies in Large Data Sets.

 • US20050198055A1. Query-Driven Partial Materialization of Relational-to-Hierarchical
Mappings.

• US20050138073A1. Method, Computer Program Product, and System of Optimized

Data Translation From Relational Data Storage To Hierarchical Structure.

• US20050028091A1. Method, System And Recording Medium For Maintaining The

Order Of Nodes In A Hierarchical Document
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviewer for:

• IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

• ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)

• W3C International World Wide Web Conference

• International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)

• International Journal on Digital Libraries

• ACM Transactions on Database Systems

• National Science Foundation (NSF)

Invited Presentations at:

• University of Maryland at College Park

• French National Institute for Informatics and Control (INRIA)

• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

• Compaq Systems Research Center

• Google, Inc.

• Lucent Laboratories

• CAS Conference, 1995, 1996, 1997, IBM Toronto Laboratory

Memeber of the:

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• IEEE
PERSONAL

• Married, Citizen of Canada and Romania, Permanent Resident of the United States of
America.