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Rimma V. Nehme

My new location:
Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab
551 W. Main Street, Suite 100
Madison, WI 53703

My new email: rimman@microsoft.com

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I have graduated and joined Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab and work on project codename "Madison".

Education

2005-2009, 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

Streaming databases
Query optimization and adaptive query processing
Self-tuning and self-managing databases
Security and privacy issues in streaming/sensor databases
Spatio-temporal databases
+ anything else that has to do with databases... :)

Current Projects

Curriculum Vitae

CV (pdf)

Publications

Conference, Workshop and Demonstration Publications:

Nicolas Bruno and Rimma V. Nehme. "Mini-Me: A Min-Repro System for Database Software" (Demo Paper). IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Long Beach, USA, March 2010. To Appear.

Rimma V. Nehme, Hyo-Sang Lim and Elisa Bertino. "FENCE: Continuous Access Control Enforcement in Dynamic Data Stream Environments" (Short Paper). IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Long Beach, USA, March 2010. To Appear.

Rimma V. Nehme, Elke A. Rundensteiner and Elisa Bertino. "Tagging Stream Data for Rich Real-Time Services". International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Lyon, France, August 2009. (.pdf).

Rimma V. Nehme, Karen Works, Elke A. Rundensteiner and Elisa Bertino. "Query Mesh: Multi-Route Query Processing Technology" (DEMO paper). International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Lyon, France, August 2009. (.pdf).

Nicolas Bruno, Rimma V. Nehme. "Finding Min-Repros in Database Software". (Best Paper Award). International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest) held in conjunction with ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Providence, RI, June 2009 (.pdf).

Rimma V. Nehme, Hyo-Sang Lim, Elisa Bertino and Elke A. Rundensteiner. "StreamShield: A Stream-Centric Approach Towards Security and Privacy in Data Stream Environments" (DEMO paper). ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Providence, RI, June 2009 (.pdf).

Rimma V. Nehme, Elke A. Rundensteiner and Elisa Bertino. "Self-Tuning Query Mesh for Adaptive Multi-Route Query Processing". International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), St. Petersburg, Russia, March 2009 (.pdf).

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, Elisa Bertino. "Compliance Auditing in Data Stream Management Systems". The 10th Annual CERIAS Information Security Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March 2009 (.pdf)

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-Research Publications:

Rimma V. Nehme. "Black Hole" in Database Research. September 2008 ( .pdf)

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 4th marathon. Sugarloaf Marathon, Sunday, May 17, 2009, Sugarloaf, ME
My travel atlas (places I've been to and want to go to)

Useful Links
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