Eric L. Chu Ph.D. Candidate Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin-Madison 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 Email: ericc AT cs DOT wisc DOT edu Pictures

(UPDATE: I've graduated with my Ph.D. in August 2008 and am working at Microsoft SQL Server.)

I'm in the database group.  My advisor is Jeff Naughton.

I received my Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington before coming to Wisconsin (another UW) for my graduate studies.

In my spare time I enjoy playing badminton and swimming.  I play doubles in badminton tournaments around Madison.  I also go to swim meets by US Masters Swimming.  My favorite events are the Individual Medleys - I enjoy swimming all 4 strokes. 

Publications:

• E. Chu, A. Baid, X. Chai, A. Doan, J. Naughton.  "Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases"  SIGMOD 2009. 

• A. Doan, J. Naughton, A. Baid, X. Chai, F. Chen, T. Chen, E. Chu, P. DeRose, B. Gao, C. Gokhale, J. Huang, W. Shen, B. Vuong. "The Case for a Structured Approach to Managing Unstructured Data ."  CIDR 2009.  [paper]

• E. Chu, A. Baid, T. Chen, A. Doan, J. Naughton.  "A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data."  VLDB 2007.  [paper | slides]

• E. Chu, J. Beckmann, J. Naughton.  "The Case for a Wide-Table Approach to Manage Sparse Relational Data Sets."  SIGMOD 2007. [paper | slides]

• S. Agrawal, E. Chu, V. Narasayya.  "Automatic Physical Design Tuning: Workload as a Sequence."  SIGMOD 2006.  [paper | slides]

Links:

DB Groups

Conferences