Svilen R. Mihaylov / Свилен Р. Михайлов

I am a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science , Department of Computer and Information Science in the Database Group, co-advised by Zachary Ives and Sudipto Guha. My major interests include query processing and data integration in distributed systems (including wireless sensor networks), and as of lately, efficient execution of queries with embedded expensive predicates. Here is my CV.

Before joining Penn in 2005, I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic University (summa cum laude) 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.

Publications

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

Other

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

Contact

Levine Hall
Computer and Information Science Department
University of Pennsylvania
3330 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389

215-573-2579