Information and Data Management

Carlo Zaniolo

Carlo Zaniolo

Feb 26, 2018

Carlo Zaniolo was born in Vicenza, Italy. He received an E.E. Engineer degree at Padua University in 1968, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at UCLA in 1970 and 1976, respectively. After working at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and MCC in Austin Texas, Dr. Zaniolo joined the UCLA CS Department in 1991, and was awarded the N.E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Science. Dr. Zaniolo’s interests include big data and knowledge based systems, non-monotonic and temporal reasoning, internet information systems, answering questions, queries and searches in knowledge bases.

D. Stott Parker

D. Stott Parker

Feb 22, 2018

Dr. Parker received the A.B. in Mathematics cum laude from Princeton in 1974. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1976 and 1978, respectively. Following a period of postdoctoral research at the Universite de Grenoble in France he joined the Faculty of the UCLA Computer Science Department in 1979. His current interests center around data mining in general, and biological databases in particular.

Tyson Condie

Feb 15, 2018

Tyson Condie is an Assistant Professor at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley. Prior to joining UCLA, he worked at Microsoft as a Principal Scientist in the Cloud and Information Services Lab, and as a Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research. His research focus is in large-scale data analytics, distributed systems, and declarative language design and implementation. His current work involves building a system software stack for Big Data Analytics on cloud computing platforms.