Svilen R. Mihaylov / Свилен Р. Михайлов Ph.D. student Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 e-mail: svilen(at)cis(dot)upenn(dot)edu 215-573-2579

I will be graduating in the Spring of 2012 and I am looking for industry and reasearch jobs. Here is my CV.

I am a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, at the Department of Computer and Information Science in the Database Group.
My advisors are Zachary Ives and Sudipto Guha, both of whom are now tenured professors.

My interests include query processing and data integration in distributed systems and wireless sensor networks.
As of lately I have looked at ways to execute recursive relational queries with user-defined code which can compute distributed algorithms like Page Rank, transitive closures, clustering, and many others. We can do all of the things Map-Reduce can do, but much faster (and equally reliable).

Before joining Penn in 2005, I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic University (which eventually merged with NYU and is now called NYU Poly) where I was involved with the Web Exploration and Search Technology Lab under the supervision of Tosten Suel.
I spent the summer of 2005 working at NEC Labs America and the summer of 2010 at Google doing interships.

Publications

• REX: Recursive, Delta-Based Data-Centric Computation
  Svilen R. Mihaylov, Zachary G. Ives, Sudipto Guha, PVLDB Vol. 5 / VLDB 2012
• Dynamic Join Optimization in Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks
  Svilen R. Mihaylov, Marie Jacob, Zachary G. Ives, Sudipto Guha, PVLDB Vol. 3 / VLDB 2010 (slides)
• SmartCIS: Integrating Digital and Physical Environments
  Mengmeng Liu, Svilen R. Mihaylov, Zhuowei Bao, Marie Jacob, Rahul Iyer, Easwaran Subbaraman, Zachary G. Ives, Boon Thau Loo, Sudipto Guha, demonstration, SIGMOD 2009
• A Substrate for In-network Sensor Data Integration (tech report version)
  Svilen R. Mihaylov, Marie Jacob, Zachary Ives, Sudipto Guha, University of Pennsylvania, technical report, 2008
• A Substrate for In-network Sensor Data Integration
  Svilen R. Mihaylov, Marie Jacob, Zachary G. Ives, Sudupto Guha, DMSN 2008 (slides)
• Efficient Query Subscription Processing for Prospective Search Engines
  Utku Irmak, Svilen R. Mihaylov, Torsten Suel, Samrat Ganguly, Rauf Izmailov USENIX 2006
• Improved Single-Round Protocols for Remote File Synchronization
  Utku Irmak, Svilen R. Mihaylov, Torsten Suel, IEEE Infocom 2005
• New Protocols for Remote File Synchronization Based on Erasure Codes
  Utku Irmak, Svilen R. Mihaylov, Torsten Suel, NYMAN 2004

Written Preliminary Exam (WPE) 2

• Evaluation Techniques for Queries with Expensive Predicates
  Written Preliminary Exam (WPE) II, 2009 (slides)

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