Bio
AnHai Doan is an associate professor in Computer Science at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. His interests cover
databases, AI, and Web. His current research focuses on data
integration, Web community management, mass collaboration, text
management, information extraction, and schema and ontology
matching. Selected recent honors include the ACM Doctoral Dissertation
Award in 2003, CAREER Award in 2004, and Alfred P. Sloan Research
Fellowship in 2007. Selected recent professional activities include
co-chairing WebDB at SIGMOD-05 and the AI Nectar track at AAAI-06.
CV
Alternative Version:
AnHai Doan grew up in a small fishing village in rural North-Central
Vietnam. Even at an early age, he already showed an exceptional
ability to move west. After high school in Vinh, Nghe An, he moved to
Hungary, where he earned a B.S. degree from Kossuth Lajos University
in 1993. Next, he landed in Wisconsin, where he drank beer, listened
to (too) much jazz and blues, and earned a M.S. from the University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1996. Then he moved again, this time going as far west
as he could, finally ending up in Seattle. There, he switched to
coffee (lots of it!), salmon, hiking, and partying. He fell in love,
broke up (*), got married, had a baby, founded a global mailing list, had
fun working on several research projects, irritated his advisors,
published a few papers, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of
Washington in 2002. All of his hard-earned degrees are in Computer
Science.
P.S. In Fall 2002, he moved east to become a professor at the
University of Illinois, Urbana. There, he dilligently spent time
writing official bios, such as the one listed above.
P.P.S. (*) In Jan 2004, his boss finally read this, and immediately
made him change "broke up, got married" to "broke up,
resumed, then got married".
P.P.P.S. In July 2006, he relapsed into the old habit of going west, and
moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.