Assistant Professor Computer Science Department Rutgers University 110 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019

Office: CoRE 324, Busch Campus Tel: +1 732 445 6450 x0636 Email: amelie cs.rutgers.edu Home page: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~amelie

Education

• 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

• September 2005 - present: 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

• April 2008: Google Research Award, Unrestricted Cash Gift, $85,000, with Noémie Elhadad, Columbia BioInformatics.
• May 2006: Microsoft Live Labs Search Award, Unrestricted Cash Gift, $48,000
• 2000-2001: Recipient of the Viros Scholarship, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University.

Professional Activities

• Program Committee Member, International Conference on Very Large Databases (Demonstrations) (VLDB 2008)
• Program Committee Member, 4th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances on Preference Handling (MPREF 2008)
• Program Committee Member, Second International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2008) 
• Program Committee Member, First PhD Workshop in CIKM (PIKM 2007)
• Program Committee Member, International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2007) (Infrastructure for Information Systems Track)
• Grant Panel: NSF IIS, 2007
• Program Committee Member, ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (Demonstrations) (SIGMOD 2007) 
• Program Committee Member, First International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2007) 
• Program Committee Member, ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2006)
• Program Committee Member, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management  (CIKM 2006) (Database Track) 
• Program Committee Member, International XML Database Symposium (XSym 2006)
• Co-organizer of the Third New York Area DB/IR day, April 2006
• Referee for VLDB Journal, 2008, 2007,2005; IS, 2008, 2007,2006; DKE, 2007; ACM TODS, 2006; ACM TOMCCAP, 2006; IEEE TKDE, 2006, 2005, 2004; ACM TOIT, 2004; Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 2001.
• Referee for PODS 2006, SIGMOD 2005, SIGMOD 2004, SIGMETRICS 2004, ICDE 2004, SIGMOD 2002, VLDB 2002.
• Referee for l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) 2006.

Invited Talks

• 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

1. Ranked XML Query Processing, Amélie Marian, Martin Theobald, Ralph Schenkel, an entry in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2008.
2. Top-K Selection Queries on Multimedia Datasets, Amélie Marian, an entry in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2008.

Papers in Refereed Journals

1. 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.
2. 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

1. Multi-Dimensional Search for Personal Information Management Systems, Christopher Peery, Wei Wang, Amélie Marian, Thu D. Nguyen, in Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'08), 2008. (17% accepted)
2. 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)
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. Projecting XML Documents, Amélie Marian, Jérôme Siméon, in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '03), 2003. (15% accepted)
8. 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)
9. 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)
10. 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)
11. 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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 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: Minji Wu, since September 2006; Wei Wang, (co-advising with Thu Nguyen) since October 2006.
• M.S. Student Advising: Gayatree Ganu, since May 2007; Hai T. Nguyen September 2006 - May 2007.
• Ph.D. Thesis Committees: Irina Rozenbaum, August 2007; Vladislav Shkapenyuk, April 2007.
• Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committees: Qi Wei, November 2006; Irina Rozenbaum, April 2006; Su Chen, March 2006; Vladislav Shkapenyuk, February 2006.
• Master's Thesis Defense Committees: Preetham Mysore, November 2006.

Panel

• Work Opportunities for Women in Computing: Recent Graduates (panelist), in WOWinC, NYU, September 2005.

University Service

• 2006 - present: Graduate admissions committee, Computer Science Department, Rutgers University.
• 2005 - 2006: Graduate committee, Computer Science Department, Rutgers University.
• 2000 - 2004: PhD admissions committee, Student member, Computer Science Department, Columbia University.
• 1997 - 1998: Elected as a student representative, MIAGE council, Université Paris IX.