Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science University of Arizona
Gould-Simpson Building 1040 E. 4th Street Tucson, AZ 85721
ruizhang at cs dot arizona dot edu
Office: GS725 Phone: 520-626-5471
I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Arizona in September, 2012, under the supervision of Dr. Richard T. Snodgrass and Dr. Saumya Debray.
Micro-Specialization in DBMSes, Query Optimization, Temporal PSM, and Temporal XML Validation.
Rui Zhang, Micro-Specialization: Dynamic Code Specialization in DBMSes,Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2012. [PDF]
• R. Zhang, R. T. Snodgrass, and S. Debray, Micro-Specialization in DBMSes, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 2012. (12 pages) [PDF] • R. Zhang, S. Debray, and R. T. Snodgrass, Micro-Specialization: Dynamic Code Specialization of Database Management Systems, in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), March 2012. (11 pages) [PDF] • R. Zhang, R. T. Snodgrass, and S. Debray, Application of Micro-Specialization to Query Evaluation Operators, in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems (SMDB2012, In conjunction with ICDE 2012). (7 pages) [PDF] • R. T. Snodgrass, D. Gao, R. Zhang, and S. W. Thomas, Temporal Support for Persistent Stored Modules,in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 2012. (12 pages) • F. A. Currim, S. A. Currim, C. E. Dyreson, R. T. Snodgrass, S. W. Thomas, and R. Zhang, Adding Temporal Constraints to XML Schema. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 18 Mar. 2011. [PDF] • R. Zhang and P. Chundi, Using Time Decompositions to Analyze PubMed Abstracts, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, pages: 569--576, 2006. • P. Chundi, R. Zhang, and M. Castellanos, Entropy Based Measure Functions for Analyzing Time Stamped Documents, The SIAM Text Mining Workshop (TM 2006) in conjunction with SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM 2006). Bethesda, Maryland. Apr. 2006. • P. Chundi, R. Zhang, and D. J. Rosenkrantz, Efficient Algorithms for Constructing Time Decompositions of Time Stamped Documents, International Conference Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2005), pages: 514--523, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 2005. • Q. Zhou, R. Zhang, C. Yin, and Y. Li, Knowledge Discovery based on Rough Set and Its Application, The Asian Workshop on Foundations of Software (AWFS 2003), Nov. 2003.
A US patent application for Micro-Specialization has been filed.
• Master's in Computer Science. University of Nebraska at Omaha. 2004-2006 • Bachelor's in Computer Science. Nanjing University of Technology. 2000-2004
• Google Inc. (Mountain View, CA), Internship -- May 18, 2009 to Aug 21, 2009, Product Search Software Engineering • Google Inc. (Mountain View, CA), Internship -- May 20, 2008 to Aug 22, 2008, Platforms Software Engineering • Nanjing Agri-Ecology Monitoring Technology Company and ICT International Pty Ltd. (Australia), Internship -- Feb 18, 2004 to April 5, 2004, Software Development
• Department of Computer Science Graduate Student Research Award, 2012, University of Arizona • Department of Computer Science Computing Expo Best Presentation Award, 2011, University of Arizona • Department of Computer Science Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, 2009, University of Arizona • Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2007, University of Arizona • Graduate Tuition Scholarships, 2004-2006, University of Nebraska at Omaha • University scholarship 2000-2004, Nanjing University of Technology