September 2005: Ph.D. Computer Science Department, Columbia University, New York, New York.
Dissertation: Evaluation of Top-k Queries over Structured and Semi-structured Data.
Advisor: Prof. Luis Gravano.
September 1999: DEA (MS degree equivalent) in Computer Science. Université Paris-IX Dauphine, France.
September 1998: Maitrise (BS) in Computer Science and Management. Université Paris-IX Dauphine, France.
Professional Employment
July 2012 - present: Associate Professor. Computer Science Department, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.
April 2011 -- present: Member of the Graduate Faculty. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
September 2005 - June 2012: Assistant Professor. Computer Science Department, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.
September 2000 - August 2005: Graduate Research Assistant. Computer Science Department, Columbia University, New York, New York.
June 2004 - August 2004: Summer Manager. AT&T Research Labs, Flohram Park, New Jersey.
March 1999 - August 2000: Research Intern. I.N.R.I.A. Rocquencourt, Projet VERSO, Le Chesnay, France.
March 1998 - June 2000: Instructor. Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci, Paris La Defense, France.
Honors and Awards
2009: NSF CAREER Award
2000-2001: Recipient of the Viros Scholarship, School of Engineering
and Applied Science, Columbia University.
Grants and Gifts
July 2012:
Google Research Award, Unrestricted Cash Gift,
$62,500, with Thu D. Nguyen, Rutgers University, Computer Science Department.
October 2010: NSF CDI-Type I, "Gaining Knowledge from Other Patients: Structuring and Searching the content of Health-Related Web Posts" BCS-10-27801, $302,268 for October 2010-September 2013 (Rutgers side), joint with Noémie Elhadad, Columbia Biomedical Informatics (total project support $729,556)
April 2010:
Google Research Award, Unrestricted Cash Gift,
$77,000, with Noémie Elhadad, Columbia Columbia Biomedical Informatics.
July 2009: NSF CAREER Award, "Relaxed Content and Structure Queries
over Heterogeneous Data," IIS-08-44935, $499,759 for July 2009-June 2014.
April 2008:
Google Research Award, Unrestricted Cash Gift,
$85,000, with Noémie Elhadad, Columbia Columbia Biomedical Informatics.
May 2006: Microsoft Live Labs Search Award, Unrestricted Cash Gift,
$48,000
Professional Activities
Area
Editor for Information Systems
Publicity and Social Media Chair, 2013 ACM SIGMOD Conference.
Demonstration Co-Chair, 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012)
Co-Chair, 14th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB
2011)
Area PC Vice-Chair, Social Networks and Personal Information track, 27th
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011)
Workshops Co-Chair, 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010)
Co-Chair, Fourth International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank
2010)
Publicity Chair, Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and
Data Mining (WSDM 2010)
Co-Chair, Very Large Databases (VLDB 2009) Ph.D. Workshop
Grant Panel: NSF IIS, 2010, 2009, 2007.
Program
Committee Member:
ACM SIGMOD International Conference
on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2016); Group leader
18th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB
2015)
ACM SIGMOD International Conference
on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2015)
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB
2014/PVLDB)
17th International Conference on Extending Database Technology
(EDBT 2014)
IEEE Big Data 2013
First VLDB Workshop on Databases and Crowdsourcing
(DBCrowd 2013)
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB
2013/PVLDB)
Sixth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2013)
Sixth International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank
2012)
14th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (Demonstrations)
(EDBT 2012)
Bases de Donnees Avancees (BDA 2012)
31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (Demonstrations) (ER 2012)
24th edition of the Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conference
(SSDBM 2012)
21st International World Wide Web Conference (Data and Content management track) (WWW 2012)
14th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (Demonstrations)
(EDBT 2011)
19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM
2010) (Database Track)
Keyword Search on Structured Data (KEYS) Workshop 2010
Very Large Databases (VLDB 2010) Ph.D. Workshop
13th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB
2010)
13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology
(EDBT 2010)
12th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB
2009)
International Conference on Very Large Databases
(Demonstrations) (VLDB
2008)
4th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances on Preference
Handling (MPREF 2008)
Second International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank
2008)
First PhD Workshop in CIKM (PIKM
2007)
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB
2007) (Infrastructure for Information Systems Track)
ACM SIGMOD International Conference
on Management of Data (Demonstrations) (SIGMOD 2007)
First International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank
2007)
ACM International Workshop on Web Information and
Data Management (WIDM 2006)
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM 2006) (Database Track)
International XML Database Symposium (XSym 2006)
Co-organizer of the Third New York Area DB/IR day, April 2006
Reviewer for DAPD 2009; VLDB Journal, 2009, 2008, 2007,2005; IS 2012, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006; DKE 2007;
ACM TODS, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2006; ACM TWeb 2012; ACM TOMCCAP, 2006; IEEE TKDE, 2011, 2009, 2006, 2005, 2004;
ACM TOIT, 2004; Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 2001.
Referee for l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) 2006.
Invited Talks
Personal Information Management
Systems, with Serge Abiteboul
Tutorial, EDBT/ICDT Conference, March 2015.
Personal Information Search and Discovery Keynote, 3rd Singaporean-French Symposium, February 2015.
Searching Web Forums WebDam/MoDaS Workshop, October 2013.
Remembrance of Data Past WebDam/MoDaS Workshop, October 2012.
Searching Data with Substance and Style Technicolor Research Center, July 2011.
Beyond the Stars: Improving Rating Predictions using Review Text Content
University of Pennsylvania, May 2010.
I.N.R.I.A. Gemo, December 2009.
LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, September 2009
Multi-Dimensional Search for Personal
Information Systems Dagstuhl Seminar on Ranked Query Processing,
March 2008.
The Truth is Out There: Aggregating Answers
from Multiple Web Sources
Microsoft Search Summit, July 2007.
Improving Query Results using Answer Corroboration: I.N.R.I.A. Gemo, June 2007.
Ask.com, June 2007. Brooklyn Polytechnic, February 2007. NJIT, October 2006.
Ranking and Scoring XML Data: LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine, June 2006 LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, June 2006
Structure and Content Scoring for XML: DIMACS Mixer series, September 2005.
Evaluating Top-k Queries over Structured and Semi-structured
Data (job talk) Rutgers University, March 2005. AT&T Research Labs, March 2005. IBM Watson, February 2005. University of Connecticut, February 2005.
Invited Papers
Corroborating Information from Web Sources, Amélie Marian, Minji Wu, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 34(3): 11-17 (2011)
Flexible Querying of Personal Information, Amélie Marian, Wei
Wang, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. 32(2): 20-27 (2009).
Ranked XML Query Processing, Amélie Marian, Martin Theobald,
Ralph Schenkel, an
entry in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2008.
Top-K Selection
Queries on Multimedia Datasets, Amélie Marian, an entry in the
Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2008.
Papers in Refereed Journals
Improving the quality of predictions using textual
information in online user reviews,,
Gayatree Ganu, Yogesh Kakodkar, Amélie Marian, in Information Systems, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-15, January 2013.
Efficient Multi-dimensional Fuzzy Search for Personal
Information Management Systems,, Wei Wang, Christopher Peery,
Amélie Marian, Thu D. Nguyen, in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and
Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 24, no. 9, Sep. 2012.
A Framework for Corroborating Answers from Multiple Web Sources,
Minji Wu, Amélie Marian, in Information Systems, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 431-449, April 2011.
Optimizing Top-k Selection Queries over
Multimedia Repositories, Surajit Chaudhuri, Luis Gravano, Amélie Marian, in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 16, no. 8, Aug. 2004.
Evaluating Top-k Queries over Web-Accessible Databases,
Amélie Marian, Nicolas Bruno, Luis Gravano,
in ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), vol. 29, no. 2, June 2004.
Papers in Refereed Conferences and Workshops
Personalizing Forum Search using Multidimensional Random Walks, Gayatree Ganu, Amélie Marian, in Proceedings of the Eighth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2014), 2014. (23% accepted)
Corroborating Facts from Affirmative Statements, Minji Wu, Amélie Marian, in
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Extending
Database Technology (EDBT'14), 2014. (19.5% accepted)
A Tool for Personal Data Extraction, Daniela Vianna, Alicia-Michelle Yong, Chaolun Xia, Amélie Marian, Thu Nguyen, in
10th International Workshop on
Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2014).
One size does not fit all: multi-granularity search of web forums, Gayatree Ganu, Amélie Marian, in Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'13), 2013. (16.9% accepted)
Unified Structure and Content Search for
Personal Information Management Systems, Wei Wang, Amélie Marian, Thu D. Nguyen, in
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Extending
Database Technology (EDBT'11), 2011. (27.7% accepted)
Processing Top-k Join Queries, Minji Wu, Laure Berti-Equille, Amélie Marian, Cecilia Procopiuc, Divesh Srivastava, in Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '10), 2010. (18.4% accepted)
Birds of a Tag Flock Together
Serge Abiteboul, Sihem Amer-Yahia Alban Galland, Amélie Marian, Pierre Senellart,
in Proceedings of the Third Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM'10) 2010)
Corroborating Information from Disagreeing Views
Alban Galland, Serge Abiteboul, Amélie Marian, Pierre Senellart, in Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on
Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'10) 2010.(15.5% accepted)
Beyond the Stars: Improving Rating Predictions using Review Text Content,
Gayatree Ganu, Noémie Elhadad, Amélie
Marian, in Proceedings of the Twelfth
International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2009), 2009.
(33% accepted)
Sailing the Information Ocean with Awareness of Currents: Discovery
and Application of Source Dependence, Laure Berti-Equille, Anish Das
Sarma, Xin Dong, Amélie Marian, Divesh Srivastava, in Proceedings of the
Fourth Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR'09), 2009
(Perspectives Track,27% accepted).
Multi-Dimensional Search for Personal Information Management Systems,
Christopher Peery, Wei Wang, Amélie Marian, Thu D. Nguyen, in
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Extending
Database Technology (EDBT'08), 2008. (17% accepted)
Corroborating Answers from Multiple Web Sources, Minji Wu,
Amélie Marian, in Proceedings of the Tenth
International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2007),
2007. (25% accepted)
Practical Preference Relations for Large Data Sets, Kenneth
Ross, Peter Stuckey, Amélie Marian in Proceedings of the First International
Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank '07), 2007.
Circumventing Data Quality Problems Using Multiple Join Paths, Yannis Kotidis, Amélie Marian, Divesh Srivastava, in Proceedings of the First International VLDB Workshop on Clean Databases
(CleanDB '06), 2006.
Structure and Content Scoring for XML,
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Nick Koudas, Amélie Marian, Divesh Srivastava, David Toman, in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '05), 2005. (17% accepted)
Adaptive Processing of Top-k Queries in XML,
Amélie Marian, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '05), 2005. (13% accepted)
Projecting XML Documents,
Amélie Marian, Jérôme Siméon, in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '03), 2003. (15% accepted)
Evaluating
Top-k Queries over Web-Accessible Databases, Nicolas Bruno, Luis Gravano,
Amélie Marian, in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '02), 2002. (19% accepted)
Detecting
Changes in XML Documents, Grégory Cobéna, Serge Abiteboul, Amélie Marian, in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '02), 2002. (19% accepted)
Change-Centric
Management of Versions in an XML Warehouse, Amélie Marian, Serge Abiteboul,
Grégory Cobéna, Laurent Mignet, in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '01), 2001. (17% accepted)
Acquiring XML Pages for a
WebHouse, Laurent Mignet, Mihai Preda, Serge Abiteboul, Sébastien Ailleret,
Bernd Amman, Amélie Marian, in Bases de Données Avancées (BDA 2000), 2000.
Papers in Refereed Demonstration Sessions
Social Networking on top of the WebdamExchange System,Emilien Antoine, Alban Galland, Kristian Lyngbaek, Amélie Marian, Alkis Polyzotis, in
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'11),
2011.
Fuzzy Multi-Dimensional Search in the Wayfinder File System,
Christopher Peery, Wei Wang, Amélie Marian, Thu D. Nguyen, in
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'08),
2008.
Implementing Galax 1.0: The Galax Experience,
Mary Fernandez, Jérôme Siméon, Byron Choi, Amélie Marian, Gargi Sur, in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '03), 2003.
XML Repository and Active Views
Demonstration
, Serge Abiteboul, Vincent Aguilera, Sébastien Ailleret, Bernd
Amann, Sophie Cluet, Brendan Hills, Frederic Hubert, Jean-Claude
Mamou, Amélie Marian, Laurent Mignet, Tova Milo, Cassio Souza dos Santos, Bruno
Tessier, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '99), 1999.
Teaching Experience
Spring 2012: Instructor, 198:437 Database Systems Implementation, Rutgers
University.
Fall 2011: Instructor, 198:336 Principles of Information and
Data Management, Rutgers
University.
Fall 2010: Instructor, 198:442 Topics in
Computer Science: Systems Aspects of Information Management, Rutgers University.
Spring 2010: Instructor, 198:541 Database Systems, Rutgers
University.
Spring 2009: Instructor, 198:442 Topics in
Computer Science: Systems Aspects of Information Management, Rutgers University.
Fall 2008: Instructor, 198:673 Web Data Management, Rutgers
University.
Spring 2008: Instructor, 198:541 Database Systems, Rutgers
University.
Spring 2007: Instructor, 198:541 Database Systems, Rutgers
University.
Fall 2006: Instructor, 198:336 Principles of Information and
Data Management, Rutgers
University.
Fall 2006: Instructor, Readings in Data Management Light
Seminar, Rutgers
University.
Spring 2006: Instructor, 198:541 Database Systems, Rutgers
University.
Spring 2006: Instructor, Readings in Data Management Light
Seminar, Rutgers
University.
Spring 2004: Teaching Assistant, CS6111 Advanced Database
Systems, Columbia University.
Summer 2001: Instructor, CS4111, Columbia Video Network,
Columbia University.
Fall 2000: Teaching Assistant, CS4111 Database Systems,
Columbia University.
March 1998 - June 2000: Instructor, Pôle Universitaire Léonard
de Vinci, France. Taught classes and led lab sessions on Databases, Data
Warehousing, SQL, C, and Introduction to Internet.
Other Educational Activities
Ph.D. Student Advising: Gayatree Ganu,
since September 2008,Minji Wu, since September 2006, Jinyun Yan, January 2009-May 2011.
Graduated Ph.D. Advisees: ; Wei Wang,
(co-advising with Thu Nguyen), graduated October 2010.
M.S. Student Advising: Yogesh Kakodkar, May 2010 - May 2011; Gayatree Ganu, May 2007 - May 2008; Hai T.
Nguyen September 2006 - May 2007.
Ph.D. Thesis Committees: Smriti Bhagat, September 2010; Wei Wang, April 2010 (Chair); Geetha Jagannathan, March 2010; Christopher Peery, August 2009; Irina Rozenbaum, August 2007; Vladislav Shkapenyuk, April
2007.
Ph.D. Pre-Defense Committees: Wei Wang, August 2009; Christopher Peery, March 2009;
Geetha Jagannathan, March 2009.
Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committees: Gayatree Ganu, November 2011 (Chair); Minji Wu, June 2011 (Chair);Imdadullah Khan, May 2010; Smriti Bhagat, September 2009; Geetha Jagannathan, June 2008;
Andre Madeira, April 2008; Wei Wang, February 2008; Qi Wei, November 2006; Irina Rozenbaum, April 2006; Su
Chen, March 2006; Vladislav Shkapenyuk, February
2006.
Master's Thesis Defense Committees: Yogesh Kakodkar, March 2011 (Chair); Vikas Menon, February 2009; Preetham Mysore, November
2006.
Panel
Work Opportunities for Women in Computing: Recent Graduates
(panelist), in WOWinC, NYU, September 2005.