Rada Chirkova
Professor of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002
Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com.my/citations?user=Jh3QCRYAAAAJ
Director, NCSU CSC Laboratory for the Science of Technologies for End-to-End Enablement of Data (STEED)
Director, NCSU site of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA), 2018-2023
Press release for CARTA – NCSU Department of Computer Science, May 17, 2018
Director, NCSU site of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR), 2016-2019
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:
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
- Information and knowledge management
- Algorithms and theory of computation
- Data analytics
- Cyber security
- Health care information technology
AWARDS
- Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – 2022
- IBM Faculty Awards – 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019
- 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
Research support from the National Science Foundation:
- NSF grant CNS-1747555 Phase 1 IUCRC NC State University: Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA), June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2023
- NSF grant IIS-1636733 BD Spokes: PLANNING: SOUTH: Collaborative: Rare Disease Observatory jointly with UNC-Chapel Hill, September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2018
- NSF grant CNS-1624605 I/UCRC: Site application to join I/UCRC known as CHMPR, September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2019
- NSF grant IIP-1439670 I/UCRC Planning Grant: Site Addition to CHMPR I/UCRC, September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015
- 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:
Research support from IBM:
The problem of coherence of a distributed hash table
Publications: please see my DBLP entry
Current Ph.D. students:
- Nahed Abu Zaid
- Ezio Mei
- Kara Schatz
Past students:
- Pei-Yu Hou, Ph.D., May 2023
- Jing Ao, Ph.D., December 2022
- Daniel Korn (UNC_CH), Ph.D., October 2022
- Ran Tan, MCS, December 2019
- Ling Chen (coadvised with Ting Yu), Ph.D., December 2016
- Farid Alborzi (coadvised with Jon Doyle and Yahya Fathi), M.Sc., December 2016
- Pallavi Deo (coadvised with Christopher Healey), M.Sc., May 2016
- Rong Huang (coadvised with Yahya Fathi), Ph.D., May 2013
- Keerthana Boloor (coadvised with Yannis Viniotis), Ph.D., May 2012
- Zohreh Asgharzadeh Talebi (coadvised with Yahya Fathi), Ph.D., May 2010
- Manik Chandrachud (coadvised with Prasenjit Mitra), Ph.D., December 2009
- Maxim Kormilitsin (coadvised with Yahya Fathi and Matthias Stallmann), Ph.D., December 2009
- Dongfeng Chen (coadvised with Fereidoon Sadri), Ph.D., September 2008
- Gang Gou, Ph.D., August 2008
- Ahmet Soydan Bilgin (coadvised with 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
Spring-24 office hours (note exceptions): tentatively Mondays 4pm-5pm
Courses: Spring-24 CSC 442 (001) / ST 442 (001) Introduction to Data Sciences (undergraduate level for Computer Science and Statistics students).