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Department of Computer Science

Database & Information Systems

Database & Information Systems

We conduct fundamental and cutting-edge research in databases, data mining, Web mining, information retrieval, and natural language processing. Current topics include data integration; exploring and integrating the Deep Web; schema matching; security; mining data streams and sequential and semi-structured data; OS support for storage systems; text retrieval and mining; bio-informatics; database support for high performance computing; and top-k query processing.

Learn more on the Database & Information Systems Group page.

Lab Locations

  • 2113 Siebel Center (Data Mining & Bioinformatics)
  • 2119 Siebel Center (Databases & Information Systems)

Seminars

Faculty

Jiawei Han data mining, data warehousing, database systems, information networks
Kevin C. Chang information access, data integration, ranked Query processing
ChengXiang Zhai  information retrievel, NLP, bioinformatics
Marianne Winslett information security, scientific data management
Dan Roth knowledge representation, NLP, machine learning
Ouri Wolfson database systems 
Saurabh Sinha bioinformatics
Julia Hockenmaier computational linguistics, computational biology
Bryan Heidorn information extraction, human-computer information system design
Thomas Anastasio computational neuroscience
Mehdi Harandi information systems
Yi Ma high-dimensional data
Olgica Milenkovic bioinformatics
Bruce Schatz bioinformatics
Sheng Zhong computational biology