Amol Deshpande Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science / UMIACS Database Group University of Maryland Contact Information : Address:     3221 A. V. Williams Bldg.     Department of Computer Science     University of Maryland     College Park, MD 20742                                   Email: amol at cs dot umd dot edu                                                  Phone: 1-301-405-2703                    Fax: 1-301-405-6707

Teaching:

• Next Semester: Fall 2008: CMSC424: Database Design (Previous Semesters: Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Spring 2005)
• Current Semester: Spring 2008: CMSC724: Database Management Systems (Previous Semesters: Spring 2007)
• Fall 2007: CMSC828K: Sensor Data Management; Data Streams
• Fall 2005: CMSC828D: Data Management in New Emerging Environments

Students:

• Bhargav Kanagal
• Jian Li
• Prithviraj Sen
• Maryam Farboodi (MS, 2006)

Research Interests:

• Query optimization; Adaptive query processing; Data Streams
• Sensor Networks
• MauveDB: Model-based Views over Sensor Data (Project Web Site)
• Probabilistic Databases

Selected Recent Publications (full list):

• Energy Efficient Monitoring in Sensor Networks; Amol Deshpande and Samir Khuller and Azarakhsh Malekian and Mohammed Toossi; LATIN 2008. [pdf] [abstract]
• Predictive Modeling-based Data Collection in Sensor Networks; Lidan Wang and Amol Deshpande; EWSN 2008. [pdf] [abstract] Selected as one of the best papers.
• Flow Algorithms for Parallel Query Optimization; Amol Deshpande, Lisa Hellerstein; ICDE 2008. [pdf] [talk] [abstract] (Extended version: UMD CS Tech. Report, CS-TR-4873, June 2007.)
• Online Filtering, Smoothing and Probabilistic Modeling of Streaming data; Bhargav Kanagal, Amol Deshpande; ICDE 2008. [pdf] [abstract] (Extended version: UMD CS Tech. Report, CS-TR-4867, May 2007.)
• Network-Aware Join Processing in Global-Scale Database Federations; Xiaodon Wang, Randal Burns, Andreas Terzis, Amol Deshpande ; ICDE 2008. [pdf] [abstract]
• Adaptive Query Processing; Amol Deshpande, Zack Ives, Vijayshankar Raman; Foundations and Trends in Databases, 1(1), 2007. [abstract] (A "greener" version of the pdf.)
• Representing and Querying Correlated Tuples in Probabilistic Databases; Prithviraj Sen, Amol Deshpande; ICDE 2007. [pdf] [abstract]
• MauveDB: Supporting Model-based User Views in Database Systems; Amol Deshpande, Sam Madden; SIGMOD 2006. [pdf] [talk] [abstract]
• Exploiting Correlated Attributes in Acquisitional Query Processing; Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Sam Madden, Wei Hong; ICDE 2005. [pdf] [talk] [abstract]
• Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks; Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Sam Madden, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong; VLDB 2004. [pdf] [abstract] Selected as the best paper.
• Cache-and-Query for Wide Area Sensor Databases; Amol Deshpande, Suman Nath, Phil Gibbons, Srini Seshan; SIGMOD 2003. [pdf] [talk] [abstract] (IrisNet Project Web Page)

Recent Presentations (conference paper presentations can be found above):

• Tutorial: Probabilistic Graphical Models and their Role in Databases; Amol Deshpande, Sunita Sarawagi ; VLDB 2007, Vienna, Austria. [talk-pdf]
• Tutorial: Adaptive Query Processing: Why, How, When, What Next; Amol Deshpande, Zack Ives, Vijayshankar Raman; VLDB 2007, Vienna, Austria. [talk-pdf]
• Tutorial: Adaptive Query Processing: Why, How, When, What Next; Amol Deshpande, Joe Hellerstein, Vijayshankar Raman; SIGMOD 2006, Chicago, USA.
• Adaptive Query Processing with Eddies; IIT Bombay, 2006. [talk-ppt]
• UMD Passport Program: Sensor Networks ; Passport Program, Summer 2005. [talk-pdf]

Recent Professional Service:

• Program Committee Vice-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2008
  
• Program Committee Member: SIGMOD 2009, ICDE 2009, COMAD 2008, VLDB 2008, DCOSS 2008, IPSN 2008, SIGMOD Demonstrations 2008, VLDB 2007, DCOSS 2007, SIGMOD Demonstrations 2007, DASFAA 2007, ICDE 2007, SIGMOD 2006, IPSN 2006, ICDE 2006, VLDB 2005, ICDE 2005
• General Co-Chair: 4th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN), 2007
  
• Program Committee Co-Chair: 3rd International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN), 2006