Projects

Data Mining

• C-DEM: Drosophila Embryo Mining Project
• Distance function design / Data scaling
• Data mining meets traffic modeling
• Large graph data mining
• Multimedia and stream data mining
• HAMMOCK - Hands-off data mining GUI

Database Systems

• Staged database systems (StagedDB/CMP project)
• Improving database performance through prefetching
• Lachesis: robust database storage management based on device-specific performance characteristics
• Implementing QOS for databases
• Automated database design for large-scale scientific data
• Database microbenchmarking

Some of our work is described in
http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/Database/index.html
http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/Workload/index.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~natassa