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:
EBII 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: chirkova-at-csc-dot-ncsu-dot-edu
TEACHING
Summer and Fall 2009 office hours (in EBII 2276): by appointment only.
Fall 2008:
- CSC 540 Database Management Concepts and Systems (intro graduate level)
- Courses on Data Cleaning and Data Mining (both intro graduate level) at the Institute for Advance Analytics
RESEARCH
Resarch support from the National Science Foundation:
- NSF grant 0447742 Career: Adaptive Automated Design of Stored Derived Data (2005-2010). Related pages:
- NSF grant IIS 0307072 Efficient View-Design Algorithms to Achieve Near-Optimal Performance of Sets of Relational Queries (2003-2007)
Selected Publications (for the full list, please see my DBLP entry)
Current Ph.D. students:
- Zohreh Asgharzadeh Talebi (coadvised with Dr. Yahya Fathi and Dr. Matthias Stallmann)
- Manik Chandrachud (coadvised with Dr. Prasenjit Mitra)
- Maxim Kormilitsin (coadvised with Dr. Yahya Fathi and Dr. Matthias Stallmann)
Past students:
- 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.
PERSONAL