Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science University of Arizona
Gould-Simpson Building 1040 E. 4th Street Tucson, AZ 85721
ruizhang at cs dot arizona dot edu
Office: GS725 Phone: 520-626-5471
I am a sixth year doctoral student. I am expected to graduate in May, 2012. My advisor is Dr. Richard T. Snodgrass.
Micro-Specialization in DBMSes, Query Optimization, Temporal PSM, and Temporal XML Validation.
• R. Zhang, R. T. Snodgrass, and S. Debray, Application of Micro-Specialization to Query Evaluation Operators. To appear in the 7th International Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems (SMDB2012, In conjunction with ICDE 2012). (7 pages) [PDF] • R. Zhang, S. Debray, and R. T. Snodgrass, Applying Micro-Specialization in DBMSes. In-submission to SIGMOD 2012, demo paper. • R. Zhang, R. T. Snodgrass, and S. Debray, Micro-Specialization in DBMSes. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 2012. (12 pages) [PDF] • R. Zhang, S. Debray, and R. T. Snodgrass, Micro-Specialization: Dynamic Code Specialization of Database Management Systems. To appear in International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), March 2012. (11 pages) [PDF] • R. T. Snodgrass, D. Gao, R. Zhang, and S. W. Thomas, Temporal Support for Persistent Stored Modules. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 2012. (12 pages) • F. A. Currim, S. A. Currim, C. E. Dyreson, R. T. Snodgrass, S. W. Thomas, and R. Zhang, Adding Temporal Constraints to XML Schema. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 18 Mar. 2011. [PDF] • S. W. Thomas, R. T. Snodgrass, and R. Zhang, τBench: Extending XBench with Time, TimeCenter TR-92, December 2010, 63+vi pages. [PDF] • R. Zhang and P. Chundi, Using Time Decompositions to Analyze PubMed Abstracts. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, pages: 569--576, 2006. • P. Chundi, R. Zhang, and M. Castellanos, Entropy Based Measure Functions for Analyzing Time Stamped Documents. The Fourth SIAM Text Mining Workshop (TM 2006) in conjunction with SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM 2006). Bethesda, Maryland. Apr. 2006. • P. Chundi, R. Zhang, and D. J. Rosenkrantz, Efficient Algorithms for Constructing Time Decompositions of Time Stamped Documents. Database and Expert Systems Applications: 16th International Conference, (DEXA 2005), pages: 514--523, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 2005. • Q. Zhou, R. Zhang, C. Yin, and Y. Li, Knowledge Discovery based on Rough Set and Its Application. The 2nd Asian Workshop on Foundations of Software (AWFS 2003), Nov. 2003.
Micro-Specialization has been filed as a provisional patent application.
• Master's in Computer Science. University of Nebraska at Omaha. 2004-2006 • Bachelor's in Computer Science. Nanjing University of Technology. 2000-2004
• Google Inc. (Mountain View, CA), Internship -- May 18, 2009 to Aug 21, 2009, Product Search Software Engineering • Google Inc. (Mountain View, CA), Internship -- May 20, 2008 to Aug 22, 2008, Platforms Software Engineering • Nanjing Agri-Ecology Monitoring Technology Company and ICT International Pty Ltd. (Australia), Internship -- Feb 18, 2004 to April 5, 2004, Software Development
• Department of Computer Science Computing Expo Best Presentation Award, 2011, University of Arizona • Department of Computer Science Best Teaching Assistant’s Award, 2009, University of Arizona • Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2007, University of Arizona • Graduate Tuition Scholarships, 2004-2006, University of Nebraska at Omaha • University scholarship 2000-2004, Nanjing University of Technology
