Spyros Blanas
Joining the Systems Group in the area of databases is Dr. Spyros Blanas, a newly minted doctor from the University of Wisconsin--Madison. Spyros aims to make data management more efficient by exploring how software can better interact with hardware. The goal of his research is to make data-rich applications use less energy and become more responsive. His dissertation work explored how to improve the performance of data processing if main memory becomes the primary storage medium for data. Part of his dissertation work is being commercialized in Microsoft's flagship data management product, SQL Server 2014.
Chunyi Peng
Joining the CSE department in Autumn 2013, Dr. Chunyi Peng will become part of the Networking group. Chunyi's research has primarily been in the areas of networking, systems, and security support for mobile applications with additional work in data center networking and cognitive radio networking. This work, part of her Ph.D. dissertation, was done at the University of California, Los Angeles and culminated in her attaining the coveted UCLA Fellowship with the Chancellor's Prize as well as an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship.
Alan Ritter
Dr. Alan Ritter's arrival in Columbus will be delayed till Autumn 2014 as he will be researching in a year's post-doctoral position with Carnegie Mellon. His research into information extraction and natural language processing in social media, particularly in extracting meaning from large user-generated text streams, will benefit the Artificial Intelligence area. Ritter will also be doing extensive work with CSE's collaborative partners in Biomedical Informatics. Alan received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
Anastasios Sidiropoulos
In a joint position with the Department of Mathematics, Dr. Sidiropoulos will join CSE after leaving the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he worked as a post-doctoral researcher. His research interests have been focused on theoretical computer science, with an emphasis on algorithms. Anastasios's papers have appeared at SODA and FOCS. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008.