Ken Pu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, UOIT
Research interests: I am currently working the following areas of research:
- New. Video databases and queries: collaborting with Dr. Bonetta (Biology) and Dr. Qureshi (Computer Vision), I am working on data management of very long lasting video streams (over 100 hours). The experience revealed many exciting research topics for database stream management, distributed storage, distributed query processing, and query language design for large scale image analytics.
- Keyword queries: we are investigating interesting applications of keyword search for legency databases as well as Web 2.0 data sources. In particular, my interest is the algorithmic and probablistic problems in interpretation of keyword queries as structured queries for relational and graphical databases.
- Data from sensors: my student and I are experimenting with a wide range of wireless sensors and RFID technology. We are working some interesting problems centered around archival of time series data, distributed processing of sensor data, and statistical inference of spatial information from RFID tag systems.
In the past, I have worked on Web service composition, type systems and type analysis in service oriented architecture, and equational logic and its applications to multidimensional query optimization.
Biographical Sketch
I received my BASc in
Engineering Science, University of Toronto in 1998, MASc in
Electrical Engineering
(System Control Group),
University of Toronto in 2000, and PhD in
Computer Science,
University of Toronto in 2006. I have worked at IBM Silicon
Valley Laboratory, San Jose, CA between 2000 and 2002. I have been an
assistant professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology
(UOIT) in
Oshawa Ontario since 2006. My area of expertise is in information systems
and Web technology.
2000 Simcoe Street North,
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
L1H 7K4
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