Dept. of Computer Science
Southern Illinois University

· Office: Fanner 2128

· Phone: 618-453-6046

· Fax: 618-453-6044

· A brief bio of me

· List of publications (or check at DBLP)

CS350: Web Application Development (in combination with CS491 – an advanced version of the same subject).
CS438: Bioinformatics Algorithms (in combination with CS591 – an advanced version of the same subject).

CS491/591: Intelligent Web and Cloud Computing.
CS430: Database Systems (textbook: First Course in Database Systems, 3e, by Jeffrey Ullman).
CS533: Data Mining (textbook: Introduction to Data Mining, by Pang-Ning Tan).

Interests: The main interest of my research is in the area of database technology. I am especially interested in XML data management in a database environment. XML has become the ubiquitous and “standard” language for web data/document publication; huge amount of data/documents formatted in XML has kept mounting up in a tremendous speed. Effective management and efficient querying of XML data are in great demand. My recent interest is focused on developing new storage models and novel query processing/optimization techniques suitable for XML. My other research interests include data mining, bioinformatics, and the persistence issue of intelligent agent systems.
Current focus: my current focus is on XML data management and XQuery optimization (access limited to team members only).
Publications: click here for a full listing of my publications (recent papers are available online in PDF)

Opportunities for thesis/dissertation study: plenty of research topics in the exciting area of Cloud Computing. Please email me or just stop by for more information.
Subject for the non-thesis option available as well!!