Willis Lang

w l a n g at w i s c dot e d u

Education

Sep 2008 to Present	Computer Sciences - Databases Advisor: Jignesh M. Patel University of Wisconsin - Madison

Sep 2006 to Apr 2008	Master of Science Computer Science and Engineering - Databases Advisor: Jignesh M. Patel University of Michigan

Sep 2001 to May 2006	Bachelor of Mathematics Honours Computer Science - Bioinformatics option (co-operative program) w/ Distinction University of Waterloo

Publications, Presentations, and Demos


	-- Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel

In Submission	-- Ramakrishnan Kandhan, Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel

In Submission	-- Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel, Jeffrey F. Naughton

2009 CIDR IBM Almaden - Invited Talk	Towards Eco-Friendly Database Management Systems Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel CIDR Student Scholarship Award

To Appear - 2009 TKDE	Dictionary-Based Compression for Long Time-Series Similarity Willis Lang, Michael Morse, Jignesh M. Patel

2008 ISMB - Poster	Periscope/SQ: Fast Interactive Querying on Biological Sequence Datasets Willis Lang (Presenter), Satwik Reddy, Sandeep Tata, Jignesh M. Patel

2008 ICDE	Scalable Rule-Based Gene Expression Data Classification Mark A. Iwen, Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel

2007 VLDB - Demo	Periscope/SQ: Interactive Exploration of Biological Sequence Databases Sandeep Tata, Willis Lang (Presenter), Jignesh M. Patel

2007 Midwest Database Research Symposium - Poster	Periscope/SQ: Interactive Data Exploration for Biological Sequences Sandeep Tata, Willis Lang (Presenter), You Jung Kim, Jignesh M. Patel Best Presented Award

Community Activities

External Reviewer

VLDB 2008, VLDB 2009

Other Experience

University of Wisconsin-Madison / Microsoft Madison, Wisconsin Aug 2008 to Present	Graduate Student Research Assistant Specializing in data management, power management, and data analysis.

University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan Aug 2006 to Aug 2008	Graduate Student Research Assistant Specializing in data management, data analysis, and bioinformatics.

Michigan State University E. Lansing, Michigan May 2005 to Aug 2005 Sep 2004 to Dec 2004	Bioinformatic Research Specialist Microarray data analysis, visualization. Genomic sequence analysis. Database developer for molecular biology.

Arclab Waterloo, Ontario Sep 2003 to Aug 2004	Bioinformatic Intern Human anatomical 3D image processing/analysis.

Ontario Cancer Institute Toronto, Ontario Jan 2004 to Apr 2004	Biomedical Informatics Intern E-chart development for NICU at Toronto Sick Children's Hospital and University Health Network. Database developer for various information systems.

Hydro One Toronto, Ontario Apr 2003 to Sep 2003	Graphical Interface Developer AutoCAD power system print analysis. Graphical display enhancement (Alstom ESCA). Analysis of power grid database.

Environment Canada Ottawa, Ontario Sep 2002 to Dec 2002	Software Developer Development of Canadian Ice Services Tool. Database developer for Canadian weather databases.

Polyphalt Inc. Toronto, Ontario Jan 2002 to Apr 2002	Database Developer Centralized database design and development.