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Kenny Q. Zhu Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Computer Science Room 206 Princeton University 35 Olden St. Princeton, NJ 08540 USA Tel: (609)258-5388 (office) (425)442-5480 (cell) (609)258-1771 (fax) Email: kzhu[at]cs[dot]princeton[dot]edu

Research

Current research

• LearnPADS: inferencing of PADS descriptions and automatic tool generation from ad hoc data using machine learning techniques (POPL'08, SIGMOD'08, PADL'09)
• PADS/D: distributed ad-hoc data processing system (Draft)
• Pawk: a light-weight ad-hoc data processing system
• PADS/ML compiler and runtime infrastracture

Past research

• Open Constraint Programming (OCP): a coordination language and system for programming against knowledge bases (ICLP'05, Coord'07, thesis)
• RC-tree: an efficient spatial indexing technique (ICDE'06)
• Combinatorial optimization with applications in vehicle routing problems

Publications

• My Publications (including drafts)
  
• My DBLP Entry
  

My Talks and Presentations (2001 - )

• "From dirt to shovels: automatic tool generation from ad hoc data", invited talk at the Industrial Affiliates Day, Princeton. 09/17/2008.
• "LearnPADS: Automatic format inference from ad-hoc data", demo at SIGMOD 2008. (slides)
• "PADS: A Language and System for Processing Ad Hoc Data", invited talk at PL/Compiler visit day, Princeton University. 03/08/2008. (slides)
• "From dirt to shovels: automatic tool generation from ad hoc data", invited talk at IBM TJ Watson Research. 02/25/2008. (slides)
• "From dirt to shovels: automatic tool generation from ad hoc data", POPL 2008, San Francisco, CA. (slides)
• "From dirt to shovels", System lunch talk at Princeton CS department. 11/2007. (part1) and (part2 by David Walker)
• "Generalized Committed Choice", Coordination 2007. (slides)
• "Indexing of dynamic abstract regions", ICDE 2006. (slides)
• "Open constraint programming", invited talk at Singapore Management University. (slides)
• "Open constraint programming", PhD. defense talk. (slides)
• "Coordination of many agents", ICLP 2005. (slides)
• "Distributed DFS with greedy work stealing", ICTAI 2004. (poster)
• "Population diversity in permutation-based genetic algorithm", ECML 2004. (slides)
• "Empirical study of population diversity in permutation-based genetic algorithm", GECCO 2004. (poster)
• "A Diversity-controlling Adaptive GA for the VRP with Time Windows", ICTAI 2003. (slides)
• "A Meeting Scheduling System Based on Open Constraint Programming", CAiSE 2002. (slides)
• "Reactive Web Agents with OCP", the Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2001). (slides)

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