Rimma V. Nehme

Computer Science Department
Purdue University
305 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2066

Email: rnehme@cs.purdue.edu

Education

Present - PhD student, Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
          Advisors: Elisa Bertino and Elke A. Rundensteiner
2005 - MS, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
          (MS Thesis: Continuous Query Processing on Spatio-Temporal Data Streams, Advisor: Elke A. Rundensteiner, Research Group: DSRG)
2001 - BS, Computational Mathematics, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI, USA

Research Interests and Activities

Current Projects

Curriculum Vitae

CV (pdf)

Research Groups

Indiana Center for Database Systems (ICDS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Publications

Conference and Workshop Publications:

Ashish Kamra, Elisa Bertino, Rimma V. Nehme. "Responding to Anomalous Database Requests". International Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM) held in conjunction with International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, (VLDB), Auckland, New Zealand, August 2008. (.pdf).
David Lomet, Mingsheng Hong, Rimma V. Nehme, Rui Zhang. "Transaction Time Indexing with Version Compression". International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Auckland, New Zealand, August 2008. (.pdf).
Nicolas Bruno, Rimma V. Nehme. "Configuration-Parametric Query Optimization for Physical Design Tuning". International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD), Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2008 (.pdf).
Rimma V. Nehme. "Database, Heal Thyself", IEEE Data Engineering Workgroup on Self-Managing Databases (SMDB) held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008 (.pdf).
Rimma V. Nehme, Elke A. Rundensteiner and Elisa Bertino. "Security Punctuation Framework for Enforcing Access Control on Streaming Data", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008. Acceptance Rate: 12.1%. (.pdf).
Ahmed Elmagarmid, Rimma V. Nehme and Mourad Ouzzani. "SpaSy: A Dataspace Management System", First International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems, (WCPS) held in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2008, Beijing, China, June 2008.
R.Maciejewski, B. Tyner, Y.Jang, C. Zheng, Rimma V. Nehme, D. Ebert, W. Cleveland, M. Ouzzani, L. Glickman, S. Grannis. "LAHVA: Linked Animal-Human Health Visual Analytics''. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Sacramento, USA, October 2007. (.pdf)
Rimma V. Nehme and Elke A. Rundensteiner. "ClusterSheddy: Load Shedding Using Moving Clusters over Spatio-Temporal Data Streams". Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Bangkok, Thailand, April 2007. Acceptance Rate: 18% (.pdf)
Rimma V. Nehme and Elke A. Rundensteiner. "SCUBA: Scalable Cluster Based Algorithm for Evaluating Continuous Spatio-Temporal Queries on Moving Objects". International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Munich, Germany, March 2006. Acceptance Rate: 16% (.pdf)

Posters:
Rimma V. Nehme, Hyo-Sang Lim, Elisa Bertino. "Continuous Security Policy Enforcement in Streaming Environments". The 9th Annual CERIAS Information Security Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March 2008 (.pdf)
Rimma V. Nehme, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Elisa Bertino. "Exploiting Security Punctuations to Enforce Security and Preserve Privacy in Data Stream Management Systems". The 7th Annual CERIAS Information Security Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March 2006 (.pdf)

Non-scientific Publications:
Rimma V. Nehme. "The Excitement of `I CAN'". Midwest Celebration of Women in Computing (MidWIC), September 2006 ( .pdf)

Work Experience

Summer 2008 Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Data Management, Exploration and Mining (DMX) Group, Project: Database Testing, Mentor: Nico Bruno, Redmond, WA
Summer 2007 Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Data Management, Exploration and Mining (DMX) Group, Project: AutoAdmin, Mentor: Nico Bruno, Redmond, WA
Summer 2006 and Winter 2007 Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Database Group, Project: Immortal DB, Mentor: David Lomet, Redmond, WA
2000 - 2003 Software Engineer, EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA

Interesting Things Happening (Outside of Research)

I've completed my 3rd marathon (to raise money for cancer research). Virginia Mason Team Medicine Marathon, Sunday, June 29, 2008, Seattle, WA
I've completed my 1st Olympic distance triathlon (July 26, 2008).
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