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Alberto H. F. Laender
Professor
Contact:
DCC/ICEx, Room 4037
Tel: +55 (31) 3409-5868
Fax: +55 (31) 3409-5858
Email: laender AT dcc DOT ufmg DOT br
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SHORT BIO
Alberto H. F. Laender holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and an
MSc degree in Computer Science, both from the Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Brazil, and a PhD degree in Computing from the University of East Anglia,
UK. He joined the Computer Science Department of the Federal University of
Minas Gerais in 1975, where he is currently a Full Professor and the head
of the Database Research Group. In 1997, he was a Visiting Scholar at HP
Labs in Palo Alto, California, working in the Picture Project team led by
Dr. Moshé Zloof. He has served on the advisory committee of
several Brazilian research funding agencies, having chaired the CNPq
Computer Science Advisory Committee from 2010 to 2012. He was also a member
of ACM SIGMOD's Advisory Board (2006-2010) and SIGMOD's Jim Gray PhD
Dissertation Award Committee (2008-2011). Prof. Laender has also served
as a program committee member for several national and international
conferences and workshops on databases and Web-related topics, such as
VLDB, ER, CIKM, WWW, WIDM, WebDB, JCDL, TPDL, DocEng, EC-Web, SPIRE,
ICDE, SIGIR, AMW, SBBD, WebMedia and HT. He was also program committee chair
of SPIRE 2002 and SBBD 2003, and program committee co-chair of WIDM 2003,
WIDM 2004, CIKM 2007, AMW 2010 and WWW 2013 Workshops. He also served as
the first Chief-Editor of the Journal of Information and Data Management (JIDM),
the official publication of the Special Interest Group on Databases of
the Brazilian Computer Society, and as a Steering Committee member of
CIKM (2007-2013). Currently, he is a member of the Steering Committee of
ER and AMW, and serves on the Editorial Boards of JIDM, IP&M and JCSE, as well
as General Co-Chair for VLDB 2018. He is a founder-member of the Brazilian
Computer Society and one of the co-founders of Akwan Information Technologies,
a Brazilian search technology company that was acquired by Google Inc. in 2005
to become its Research and Development Center for Latin America.
Prof. Laender is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science and of the Brazilian
National Academy of Engineering, and in 2010 he was awarded the National Order
of the Scientific Merit by the Brazilian President. He is the author of more than
180 refereed journal and conference papers, and his current research interests
include Databases, Web Data Management, Digital Libraries and Bibliometrics.
EDUCATION
1997 - 1997: Post-Doc
HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA
1980 - 1984: PhD in Computing
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
1975 - 1979: MSc in Computer Science
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
1970 - 1974: BS in Electrical Engineering
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
PUBLICATIONS
PhD STUDENTS
- Thiago Magela Rodrigues Dias. A Study on the Brazilian Scientific Production Based on Data fron the Lattes Platform (in Portuguese), 2016.
- Evandrino Gomes Barros. Keyword-based Query Processing over XML Streams. 2012.
- Anderson de Almeida Ferreira. Contributions for Solving the Author Name Ambiguity Problem in Bibliographic Citations. 2012.
- Moisés Gomes de Carvalho, Evolutionary Approaches to Data Integration Related Problems, 2009.
- Guilherme Tavares de Assis, A Genre-Aware Approach to Focused Crawling of Web Pages, 2008.
- Karla Albuquerque Vasconcelos Borges, Using an Ontology of Urban Places for Discovering and Extracting Geospatial Evidence on the Web (in Portuguese), 2006.
- Altigran Soares da Silva, Example-Based Strategies for Extracting Semistructured Web Data, 2002.
- Clodoveu Augusto Davis Jr., Multiple Representations in Geographic Information Systems (in Portuguese), 2000.
- Luciano Romero Soares de Lima, Automatic Categorization of Medical Documents (in Portuguese), 2000.
MSc STUDENTS (From 2009 onwards)
- Tiago Henrique Costa Alves. Dynamic Prediction of ICU Mortality Risk Using Domain Adaptation (co-supervision with Adriano Veloso), 2018.
- Jeancarlo Campos Leão. An Approach to Detecting Communities from Social Interaction Sequences (in Portuguese), 2018.
- Wellington José das Dôres. A Study on the Brazilian Academic Genealogy (in Portuguese), 2017.
- Hugo Silva Santos. A Study on the Brazilian Stock Exchange Marke Based on Data from Twitter (in Portuguese), 2016.
- Isac Sandin Ribeiro. Tag Recomendation for Sumarizing Academic Profiles (in Portuguese), 2015.
- Juán Felipe Delgado Garcia. An Analysis of the Computer Science Scientific Production in Latin America (in Portuguese). 2015
- Bruno Leite Alves. A Temporal Analysis of Scientific Communitiesdades (in Portuguese), 2013.
- Lucas Cunha de Oliveira Miranda. Caracterization of Access Patterns in Specialized Media Portals (in Portuguese), 2013
- Diego Marinho de Oliveira. A Filter Flow-Based Approach for Entity Recognition in Twitter Messages. (in Portuguese), 2012.
- Cristiano Nascimento. A Framework for Seaching and Recommending Scientific Articles (in Portuguese), 2011.
- Gabriel Silva Gonçalves. Automatic Selection of Training Data for a Genetic Programming-Based Record Deduplication (in Portuguese), 2010
- Luiz Guilherme Pais dos Santos. Exploring Popularity for Seaching Information in Blogs (in Portuguese), 2009.
- Waister Silva Martins. Automaticaly Assessing Scientific Conferences: A Case Study in Computer Science (in Portuguese), 2009.
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