AnHai Doan

Room 4355
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin
1210 W. Dayton St.
Madison WI 53706, USA
anhai@cs.wisc.edu
(608) 262 9759
Fax: (608) 262 9777

Assistant: TBD
Resistant: Anson "Bo" Doan

• 05/03/07: Alon finally gone blog :).
• 02/19/07: In my spare time I moonlight as a prolific essayist. I write one essay every ten years. My last one appeared in 1997 (in Vietnamese). It has just been re-published in Yesterday's Scents, as one of the best essays of Tuo^?i Tre? newspaper, from 1994 to 2005.
• 08/28/06: After four wonderful years at Illinois, I am now at UW-Madison, in the Badger State, where the rolling hills hug you gently, the picturesque lakes relax your mind, and the four main food groups are beer, bratwurst, cheese, and coffee.
• 07/07/05: A draft on research summary.
• 07/07/05: Well, everyone blogs these days, so I'm joining the crowd. However, this is a strictly "chicken" blog, with intermittent updates in a low-tech manner, and short, choppy sentences. Here's the one for today: I've realized that faculty life consists of nothing but emails, deadlines, meetings, and being late for those three.
  
• I'm co-chairing WebDB-05 with Frank Neven. The theme this year is large-scale data integration. Hope to see you there.
• Check out the two special issues on semantic integration: (1) SIGMOD Record Dec 04 (here is the intro), (2) The issue in AI Magazine Mar 05 is restricted to AAAI members, but here are the table of content, the editorial, and a short survey on semantic integration in the database community.

Databases and AI, with an emphasis on data integration, machine learning, data mining, and Web technologies. More detail in the research summary. Current projects:

• Schema & Ontology Matching
• Community Information Management
• Data Integration

• Toward Best-Effort Information Extraction, W. Shen, P. DeRose, R. McCann, A. Doan, R. Ramakrishnan. SIGMOD-08.
• Building Community Wikipedias: A Human-Machine Approach, P. DeRose, X. Chai, B. Gao, W. Shen, A. Doan, P. Bohannon, J. Zhu. ICDE-08.
• Efficient Information Extraction over Evolving Text Data, F. Chen, A. Doan, J. Yang, R. Ramakrishnan. ICDE-08.
• Optimizing SQL Queries over Text Databases, A. Jain, A. Doan, L. Gravano. ICDE-08.
• Matching Schemas in Online Communities: A Web 2.0 Approach, R. McCann, W. Shen, A. Doan. ICDE-08.
• A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data, E. Chu, A. Baid, T. Chen, A. Doan, J. Naughton. VLDB-07.
• Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach, P. DeRose, W. Shen, F. Chen, A. Doan, R. Ramakrishnan. VLDB-07.
• Declarative Information Extraction Using Datalog with Embedded Extraction Predicates, W. Shen, A. Doan, J. Naughton, R. Ramakrishnan. VLDB-07.
• OLAP over Imprecise Data with Domain Constraints, D. Burdick, A. Doan, R. Ramakrishnan, S. Vaithyanathan. VLDB-07.
• User-Centric Research Challenges in Community Information Management Systems, A. Doan, P. Bohannon, R. Ramakrishnan, X. Chai, P. DeRose, B. Gao, W. Shen. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, special issue on data management in social networks. 2007.
• DBLife: A Community Information Management Platform for the Database Research Community, P. DeRose, W. Shen, F. Chen, Y. Lee, D. Burdick, A. Doan, R. Ramakrishnan. CIDR-07 (demo).
• Best-Effort Data Integration, A. Doan. The NSF/EPA/ONR/NARA/AHRQ/NCO Workshop on Data Integration (position statement). 2006.
• Community Information Management, A. Doan, R. Ramakrishnan, F. Chen, P. DeRose, Y. Lee, R. McCann, M. Sayyadian, and W. Shen. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Special Issue on Probabilistic Databases, 29(1), 2006.
• Managing Information Extraction (PPT slides), A. Doan, R. Ramakrishnan, S. Vaithyanathan. SIGMOD-06 Tutorial (see the 2-page description here)

• PC Member, VLDB-08, ICDE-08, SIGMOD-07, ICDE-07, IJCAI-07
• Co-chair, The AI Nectar Track, AAAI-06 (Nat. Conf. on AI)
• PC Member, KDD-06, AAAI-06, the "AI and the Web" track, ICDE-06, CIKM-06, NGITS-06
• Co-chair, WebDB-05
• PC Member, SIGMOD-05, VLDB-05, ICML-05, IJCAI-05 (the Int. Joint Conf. on AI)

• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2007
• IBM Faculty Award, 2007
• NSF CAREER Award, 2004
• Outstanding Alumnus Award, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2004
• ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2003
• William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award, Univ. of Washington, 2003
• Meritorious Service Award, Journal of Operations Research, 2003
• Incomplete list of teachers ranked as excellent by their students, Univ. of Illinois, Spring 03-04
• Graduate School Fellowship, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1995-1996.
• University Fellowship, Kossuth Lajos Univ., Hungary, 1991-1993.

• Current:
  • Fei Chen (co-advised with Raghu Ramakrishnan)
  • Xiaoyong Chai
  • Pedro DeRose, exp. grad. date: 2008
  • Yoonkyong Lee
  • Mayssam Sayyadian
  • Warren Shen, exp. grad. date: 2008
• Alumni:
  • Robert McCann, 2005, Windows Live Safety Platform, Applied Research Group, Microsoft.
  • Wensheng Wu (co-advised with Clement Yu), 2006, IBM Almaden Research.
  • Doug Burdick (co-advised with Raghu Ramakrishnan), 2007, MITRE

• CS 784: Advanced Topics in Database Management Systems, Spring 2008.
• CS 764: Topics in Database Management Systems, Spring 2007.
• CS591AD: Seminar on Managing Distributed and Heterogeneous Data, Spring 2005.
• CS498AD: Machine Learning Approaches to Information Management, Fall 2004.
• CS591AD: Seminar on Managing Distributed and Heterogeneous Data, Fall 2004.
• CS491: Seminar on Managing Distributed and Heterogeneous Data, Spring 2004.
• CS311: Database Systems, Spring 2004.
• CS311: Database Systems, Fall 2003.
• CS497: Hot Topics in Data Integration, Spring 2003.
• CS491: Seminar on Data Sharing and Integration, Fall 2002.