Zachary G. Ives
Associate Professor
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Honors and Awards: Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching - 2010, NSF CAREER Award - 2006
Research Expertise: Databases | Distributed Systems
Zach's research focuses on facilitating information sharing in today's Web and wireless worlds. He and his group are developing techniques for connecting different databases and applications together to them, regardless of possible variations and inconsistencies in terminologies or formats. They are also working on higher-level ways of programming large suites of heterogeneous sensor devices, and methods for automatically adapting these programs to target networks and devices. Zach's ultimate goal is to connect users or their applications with the data and in the format they need.
Affiliations: Undergraduate Curriculum Chair - Market and Social Systems Engineering (MKSE), Associated Faculty, Penn Center for Bioinformatics
Education:
PhD - University of Washington
BS - Sonoma State University
Recent Publications 
- Actively soliciting feedback for query answers in keyword search-based data integration, Yan, Z. | Zheng, N. | Ives, Z.G. | Talukdar, P.P. | Yu, C., Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2013
- Distributed time-aware provenance, Zhou, W. | Mapara, S. | Ren, Y. | Li, Y. | Haeberlen, A. | Ives, Z. | Loo, B.T. | Sherr, M., Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2012
- Recomputing materialized instances after changes to mappings and data, Green, T.J. | Ives, Z.G., Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering, 2012
- Rex: Recursive, deltabased datacentric computation, Mihaylov, S.R. | Ives, Z.G. | Guha, S., Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2012
- MOSAIC: Declarative platform for dynamic overlay composition, Mao, Y. | Loo, B.T. | Ives, Z. | Smith, J.M., Computer Networks, 2012