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FLORIN RUSU

Mailing address: Phone: +1-209-***-****

SE262, 5200 N Lake Road E-mail: *****@********.***

Merced, CA 95343, USA Web: http://www.faculty.ucmerced.edu/frusu

Research Interests

Databases in general, with a particular focus on large scale data management, data aggregation and approx-

imation methods; data streaming; approximate query processing; online aggregation; Big Data Analytics.

Education

May 2009 Ph.D. (Computer Science)

University of Florida, USA

Dissertation: Sketches for Aggregate Estimations over Data Streams

Advisor: Alin Dobra

August 2008 M.Sc. (Computer Science)

University of Florida, USA

GPA: 3.91/4

June 2004 B.Eng. (Computer Science)

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (5 year curriculum)

GPA: 9.85/10

Thesis: DICOM Compliant Integrated System for Medical Structured Reporting

Advisor: Sergiu Nedevschi

Work Experience

University of California at Merced, School of Engineering September 2010 Present

Title: Assistant Professor

Innovative Scheduling, Inc. June 2009 June 2010

Title: Senior Software Engineer

Performed research, designed, and implemented scheduling algorithms for large scale transportation

networks. Developed models for network optimization problems.

Research Experience

University of Florida, CISE Department January 2005 May 2009

Title: Research Assistant

Performed research on di erent approximate query processing techniques with applications to databases

and data streaming under the supervision of Alin Dobra and Christopher Jermaine.

IBM Almaden Research Center May 2008 August 2008

Title: Summer Intern

Designed and implemented algorithms for mining queries from a data warehouse under the supervision

of Vijayshankar Raman, Lin Qiao, and Peter Haas.

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Computer Science Department October 2002 June 2004

Title: Junior Research Assistant

Worked on the design and implementation of a medical structured reporting system for electrocardio-

graphy images under the supervision of Sergiu Nedevschi. Joint work with University of Medicine and

Pharmacy Iuliu Hatieganu from Cluj-Napoca.

Publications

Journal Publications

1. Florin Rusu and Alin Dobra. GLADE: A Scalable Framework for E cient Analytics. Operating

Systems Review (OSR), Vol. 46, No. 1, January 2012, pp. 12 18. [Selected as one of the best papers

presented at LADIS 2011.]

2. Florin Rusu and Alin Dobra. Sketches for Size of Join Estimation. ACM Transactions on Database

Systems (TODS), Vol. 33, No. 3, September 2008.

3. Florin Rusu and Alin Dobra. Pseudo-Random Number Generation for Sketch-Based Estimations.

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Vol. 32, No. 2, June 2007. [Accepted at rst

submission.]

Conference Publications

1. Yu Cheng, Chengjie Qin, and Florin Rusu. GLADE: Big Data Analytics Made Easy. Proceed-

ings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2012),

Scottsdale, Arizona, May 2012, pp. 697 700. Demo Track. [Acceptance rate 42%.]

2. Florin Rusu and Alin Dobra. GLADE: A Scalable Framework for E cient Analytics. Proceedings of

the 2011 LADIS Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS 2011) held in

conjunction with the VLDB Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2011), Seattle, Washington,

September 2011.

3. Alin Dobra, Chris Jermaine, Florin Rusu, and Fei Xu. Turbo-Charging Estimate Convergence in

DBO. Proceedings of the 2009 VLDB Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2009), Lyon, France,

August 2009, pp. 419 430. [Acceptance rate 16.7%.]

4. Florin Rusu and Alin Dobra. Sketching Sampled Data Streams. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE

ICDE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), Shanghai, China, March 2009, pp.

381 392. [Acceptance rate 17%.]

5. Florin Rusu, Fei Xu, Ravi Jampani, Luis Perez, Mingxi Wu, Chris Jermaine, and Alin Dobra.

The DBO Database System. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on

Management of Data (SIGMOD 2008), Vancouver, Canada, June 2008, pp. 1223 1226. Demo Track.

[Acceptance rate 31.9%.]

6. Florin Rusu and Alin Dobra. Statistical Analysis of Sketch Estimators. Proceedings of the 2007

ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007), Beijing, China,

June 2007, pp. 187 198. [Acceptance rate 14.6%.]

7. Florin Rusu and Alin Dobra. Fast Range-Summable Random Variables for E cient Aggregate Es-

timation. Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data

(SIGMOD 2006), Chicago, Illinois, June 2006, pp. 193 204. [Acceptance rate 13%.]

8. Sergiu Nedevschi, Florin Rusu, Iulian Popa, Alexandru Smeu, Dan Olinic, and Calin Homorodean.

Structured Reporting of Echocardiography Images in a DICOM Environment. Proceedings of Comput-

ers in Cardiology 2004, Chicago, Illinois, September 2004, pp. 685 688.

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9. Sergiu Nedevschi, Dan Olinic, Radu Popovici, Florin Rusu, Alexandru Smeu, and Calin Homorodean.

DICOM Compliant Environment for Structured Reporting in Echocardiography. Proceedings of Com-

puters in Cardiology 2003, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2003, pp. 29 32.

Technical Reports

1. Chengjie Qin and Florin Rusu. PF-OLA: A High-Performance Framework for Parallel On-Line

Aggregation. arXiv, June 2012.

Posters

1. Chengjie Qin and Florin Rusu. PF-OLA: A High-Performance Framework for Parallel On-Line

Aggregation. Northern California (NorCal) Database Day, Berkeley, California, April 2012.

2. Yu Cheng and Florin Rusu. EXTASCI: An Extensible System for Scienti c Data Analysis. Northern

California (NorCal) Database Day, Berkeley, California, April 2012.

3. Florin Rusu. GLADE: A Scalable Framework for E cient Analytics. Extremely Large Databases

Conference (XLDB 2011), Menlo Park, California, October 2011.

4. Florin Rusu. GLADE: A Highly-Scalable Architecture-Independent Framework for E cient Analytics.

Northern California (NorCal) Database Day, Davis, California, April 2011.

Talks

GLADE: A Scalable Framework for E cient Analytics

Invited talk at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, California, June 2012

LADIS 2011 Workshop, Seattle, Washington, September 2011

Invited talk at EMC Greenplum, San Mateo, California, May 2011

Scalable Approximate Query Processing

Job talk given at New Mexico State University, University of California at Merced, and Utah

State University, February April 2010

Sketching Sampled Data Streams

IEEE ICDE 2009 Conference, Shanghai, China, March 2009

Fast Randomized Algorithms for Data Streams

Cornell University, DB Colloquium, Ithaca, New York, February 2009

Mining for Queries

IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, August 2008

Statistical Analysis of Sketch Estimators

ACM SIGMOD 2007 Conference, Beijing, China, June 2007

University of Florida, DB Seminar, Gainesville, Florida, January 2007

Fast Range-Summable Random Variables for E cient Aggregate Estimation

ACM SIGMOD 2006 Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 2006

University of Florida, DB Seminar, Gainesville, Florida, February 2006

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Teaching Experience

University of California at Merced, School of Engineering

Title: Assistant Professor

CSE 177/EECS 277, Database Systems Implementation (Spring 2012)

ENGR 140/CSE 165, Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (Fall 2011)

CSE 111, Database Systems (Spring 2011, Fall 2012)

EECS 284, Large Scale Data Management (Spring 2011)

University of Florida, CISE Department

Title: Teaching Assistant

Course Introduction to Computer Organization (Spring 2008) taught by Seema Bandyopadhyay. Re-

sponsibilities included lecturing, holding o ce hours, and grading homeworks and exams.

Course Database Management Systems (Fall 2005) taught by Alin Dobra. Responsibilities included

holding o ce hours for the students and the design and grading of homeworks, exams, and projects.

Professional Service

Paper Refereeing

Program Committee Member: ICDE 2013, VLDB 2012 (Demo), SIGMOD 2011 (Demo), ICDE 2011

Journal Reviewer: Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Transactions on Knowledge and Data

Engineering (TKDE), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)

Conference Referee: SIGMOD 2009 (Demo), ICDE 2009, VLDB 2007, SIGMOD 2006, ICDE 2006

Professional Society Memberships

Member of the ACM SIGMOD special interest group

Honors and Awards

Recipient of UF CISE Travel Grant to participate at IEEE ICDE 2009 Conference (March 2009).

Recipient of UF Student Government Travel Grant to participate at ACM SIGMOD 2008 Conference

(June 2008).

Recipient of EDBT scholarship to attend the 8th EDBT Summer School on database technology for

novel applications in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (September 2007).

Recipient of UF CISE Travel Grant to participate at ACM SIGMOD 2006 Conference (June 2006).

Recipient of Annual University Fellowship for academic excellence, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (1999 2004).

Other Activities

Treasurer of the UF Romanian Student Organization (RSA) (September 2006 May 2008).

Vice-President of the UF CISE ASCIE graduate student organization (May 2007 May 2008).

Student member of the UF CISE Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) (September 2006 May 2007).

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Personal Data

Male, born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Languages spoken: Romanian (native), English ( uent), French (intermediate), Italian, Spanish (ele-

mentary).

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