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Kenny Qili Zhu (朱其立)

Professor and Distinguished Research Fellow
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Prospective PhD students:
I am looking for self-motivated and hardworking students to do exciting research in:
programming languages, compilers, or databases and data processing.
Please email your CV if you are interested!

Research

I am interested in programming technologies for data processing.
By data processing, I mean all tasks involving the accumulation, distribution,
assembly, query, transformation and computation of data.
In the past, I have studied the processing of two different kinds of data:
ad hoc data and knowledge bases.
My current research is centered around the PADS data description language.

Current research

RICH-IP: an interactive system for high-level configurable integrated circuit synthesis
LearnPADS: inferencing of PADS descriptions and automatic tool generation from ad hoc data using machine learning techniques (POPL'08, SIGMOD'08, PADL'09)
Gloves: distributed ad-hoc data processing system (PPDP'09)
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

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)