Heasoo Hwang

• 9/2003-          Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at University of California, San Diego
  Advisor: Yannis Papakonstantinou
• 2/2002           M.S. in Computer Science at Seoul National University, Korea
  Advisor: Sang-goo Lee
  Specialization: Databases and Information Systems
  Thesis: Improving Rule Matching Performance in Rule-Based CRM Systems
• 2/2000           B.S. in Computer Science at Seoul National University, Korea

• DBPubs: Multidimensional Exploration of Database Publications
  Akanksha Baid, Andrey Balmin, Heasoo Hwang, Erik Nijkamp, Jun Rao, Berthold Reinwald, Alkis Simitsis, Yannis Sismanis, Frank van Ham; VLDB Conference 2008 (Demo paper)
• Authority-based keyword search in databases
  Vagelis Hristidis, Heasoo Hwang, Yannis Papakonstantinou; ACM Transactions on Database Systems 2008: 33(1)
• Information discovery in loosely integrated data
  Heasoo Hwang, Andrey Balmin, Hamid Pirahesh, Berthold Reinwald; SIGMOD Conference 2007: 1147-1149
• ObjectRank: a system for authority-based search on databases
  Heasoo Hwang, Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou; SIGMOD Conference 2006: 796-798

• 6/2008-9/2008 Microsoft Search Lab, Mountain View
  Topic: Query Alteration for High Quality Web Search (TBA)
• 6/2007-9/2007 Data Management in Computer Science Dept, IBM Almaden Research Center
  Topic: Fast Contextual Search in Graph-Structured Data
• 6/2006-9/2006 Data Management in Computer Science Dept, IBM Almaden Research Center
  Topic: Flexible Querying of Integrated Data
• 7/2004-9/2004 Personal Area Network Group, LG Electronics Institute of Technology
  Topic: Designing RFID scenarios

• 1/2003-8/2003 Corelogix Research Center, Korea
  • Software Engineer
  • Topic: Product Ontology (E-commerce catalog) Management System
• 3/2000-2/2002 Intelligent Database System Lab, Seoul National University, Korea
  • Research Assistant
  • Topic: Rule-based CRM System, Medical Information System