Walid G. Aref

Professor of Computer Science

aref@cs.purdue.edu

Biographical Information

Address 

        Purdue University 

        Department of Computer Science 

        305 N. University Street 

        West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907-2107 

        Office Phone: +1 765-494-1997 

        FAX:          +1 765-494-0739  

Research Interests

Database management systems, query processing, indexing, extensibility, stream data management, spatiotemporal data management, scientific data management, privacy, data mining, and geographic information systems (GIS).

Selected Publications

• Computer Science Bibliography Server
• Google Scholar
• Recent Papers 

Lab News     

The Database Systems Seminar

Research Projects

• NSF- III: Small: Native Compilation, Query Processing, and Indexing for In-memory Graph Relational Data Systems (Under Construction)
• NSF- III: Small: In-memory, Distributed, and Adaptive Spatio-textual Query Processing
• NSF- III: Small: On the Conceptual Evaluation and Optimization of Queries in Spatiotemporal Data Systems
• Multi-predicate Spatiotemporal Query Processing and Optimization Wiki 
• The Chameleon Project: A Context-aware Database Management System
• Scientific Database Management
• EcoliHub
• Nile: Data Stream Management System based on Incremental Evaluation
• PLACE: Purvasive Location-Aware Computing Environment: Spatiotemporal Data Management
• Database Technologies for Emerging Applications
• SP-GiST: Space-partitioning Generalized Search Trees
• vdbms: Video as a First-class Citizen in Database Systems

Courses

Students