Rada Chirkova
Associate Professor of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002
Phone : (919) 513-3506
Fax: (919) 515-7896
Office location:
EB-II room 2276 (Centennial Campus)
890 Oval Drive, Raleigh, NC 27695-8206
Postal Address for US Postal Service:
Department of Computer Science,
North Carolina State University,
Campus Box 8206
Raleigh, NC 27695-8206
Mailing address for Fedex/UPS/Airborne-DH Hill/any other commercial carrier:
Department of Computer Science,
North Carolina State University,
890 Oval Drive,
3320 Engineering Building II,
Raleigh, NC 27606
Email: rychirko-at-ncsu-dot-edu
RESEARCH AREAS
- Algorithms and theory of computation
- Information and knowledge management
- Cyber security
- Analytics
- Health care information technology
AWARDS
- Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – 2012
- IBM Faculty Award – 2012
- IBM Faculty Award – 2011
- IBM Faculty Award – 2010
- IBM Faculty Award – 2007
- IBM University Partnership Program Awards – 2003, 2004, 2007
- National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award – 2005
- Faculty Research and Professional Development Award (NCSU), 2003
RESEARCH
Resarch support from the National Science Foundation:
- NSF grant 0447742 Career: Adaptive Automated Design of Stored Derived Data (2005-2011). Main page:
- NSF grant IIS 0307072 Efficient View-Design Algorithms to Achieve Near-Optimal Performance of Sets of Relational Queries (2003-2007). Main page:
Selected Publications (for the full list, please see my DBLP entry)
Current Ph.D. students:
- Steven Harenberg (coadvised with Dr. Nagiza Samatova)
Past students:
- Rong Huang (coadvised with Dr. Yahya Fathi), Ph.D., May 2013.
- Keerthana Boloor (coadvised with Dr. Yannis Viniotis), Ph.D., May 2012.
- Zohreh Asgharzadeh Talebi (coadvised with Dr. Yahya Fathi), Ph.D., May 2010.
- Manik Chandrachud (coadvised with Dr. Prasenjit Mitra), Ph.D., December 2009.
- Maxim Kormilitsin (coadvised with Dr. Yahya Fathi and Dr. Matthias Stallmann), Ph.D., December 2009.
- Dongfeng Chen (coadvised with Dr. Fereidoon Sadri), Ph.D., September 2008.
- Gang Gou, Ph.D., August 2008.
- Ahmet Soydan Bilgin (coadvised with Dr. Munindar Singh), Ph.D., December 2007.
- Mike Martin, Ph.D., May 2007.
- Kashinath Dev, M.Sc., October 2005.
- Shalu Gupta, M.Sc., July 2005.
- Kyoung-Hwa Kim, M.Sc., January 2005.
- Pooja Kohli, M.Sc., December 2004.
- Ashish Shah, M.Sc., May 2004.
TAMING THE DATA
I am in charge of the Taming the Data invited-speaker series, held in the Department of Computer Science at NC State University.
TEACHING
Summer 2013 office hours (in EB-II 2276; note exceptions): by appointment only.
Fall 2013:
- CSC 431 File Organization and Processing (undergraduate level), Section 001.
- CSC 541 Advanced Data Structures (intro graduate level), Sections 001 and 601.
PERSONAL