Curriculum Vitae<title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="ucsd-styles.css" type="text/css"> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" width="1000" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td align="center" valign="baseline" > You can also download a <a href="pdf/encv.pdf">PDF</a>  version of my CV.  </tr></td> </table> </center> </div> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" width="1000" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td width="55%" align="left"><b>Nicola Onose</b></td> <td width="23%" align="left"> </td> <td rowspan="5" align="right"> <img src="images/ucsd-2004.jpg" width="140" height="187"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>PhD student at <a href=http://www.ucsd.edu/> University of California, San Diego</a></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Address: <br/> Computer Science and Engineering Department <br/> University of California, San Diego <br/> 9500 Gilman Drive <br/> La Jolla, CA 92093-0404, USA </td> <td></td> </tr> <tr>  <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <img src="images/email_nicola.jpg"/> </td> </tr> </table> </center> <div align="center"> <center> <table style="text-align: justify" border="0" width="1000" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3>Objective</h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="undercell" colspan="2"> I plan to graduate in 2009 and I am currently looking for a research position. </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3>Education</h3> </td> </tr>  <tr> <td class="undercell" width="45%"><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">2004 – </td> <td class="undercell" width="45%"> Ph.D. student at <a href="http://www.ucsd.edu/">University of California, San Diego</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">2003-2004</td> <td> <a href="http://ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr/">Ensimag</a> (Grenoble), postgraduate specialization in Software Engineering and Programming Languages </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">April 2001 – 2003</td> <td> <a href="http://www.polytechnique.edu/">Ecole Polytechnique</a> (Palaiseau), majors in Computer Science </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">1998 – 2003</td> <td><a href="http://www.pub.ro/English/eng.htm">Politehnica University Bucharest</a>, Computer Science Department </td> </tr>  <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3>Projects</h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="undercell"><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">summer 2006</td> <td class="undercell"><a href="http://db.ucsd.edu/dxq">DXQ</a>, distributed XQuery scripting language and framework </td> </tr> <tr> <td ><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">2005</td> <td ><a href="http://db.ucsd.edu/reform">REFORM</a>, a tool for rewriting XQuery using XQuery views </td> </tr> <tr> <td ><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">summer 2004</td> <td ><a href="http://db.ucsd.edu/mars">MARS</a>, publishing proprietary data residing in mixed and redundant storage </td> </tr> <tr> <td ><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">2003 – 2006 </td> <td ><a href="http://www-db-out.bell-labs.com/galax/">Galax</a>, the Bell-Labs XQuery implementation </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">summer 2003</td> <td>GUPster, user-profile management</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3>Full Research Papers</h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="undercell" colspan=2><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2009/datalogviews.pdf"> <i> Querying Data Sources That Export Infinite Sets of Views </i> </a> <br/>ICDT 2009, with Bogdan Căutiș, Alin Deutsch</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2008/optim.pdf"> <i>XML Query Optimization in the Presence of Side Effects</i> </a> <br/> SIGMOD 2008, with Giorgio Ghelli, Kristoffer Rose, Jérôme Siméon </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan=2><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2006/nextrewrite.pdf"><i>Rewriting Nested XML Queries Using Nested Views</i></a> <br/> SIGMOD 2006, with Alin Deutsch, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Emiran Curtmola </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2004/366-simeon.pdf"><i>XQuery at Your Web Service</i></a> <br/> WWW2004, with Jérôme Siméon</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3>Workshop Papers</h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="undercell" colspan="2"><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="images/roundbullet.gif"><i> XPath Rewriting Using Multiple Views: Achieving Completeness and Efficiency </i></a> <br/> WebDB 2008, with Bogdan Căutiș, Alin Deutsch</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2008/bitexq.pdf"> <i>A Restful Workflow Implementation on Top of Distributed XQuery</i> </a> <br/> XIME-P 2008 (co-located with SIGMOD 2008), with Rania Khalaf, Kristoffer Rose, Jérôme Siméon </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2007/algebra-dbpl2007.pdf"> <i>A Better Semantics for XQuery with Side-Effects</i> </a> <br/> DBPL 2007, with Giorgio Ghelli, Kristoffer Rose, Jérôme Siméon </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan=2><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2007/ximep2007.pdf"><i>DXQ: A Distributed XQuery Scripting Language</i></a><br/> XIME-P 2007 (co-located with SIGMOD 2007) Mary Fernández, Trevor Jim, Kristi Morton, Jérôme Siméon </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3>Industrial Papers</h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="undercell" colspan=2><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2007/inverses2007.pdf"><i>Inverse Functions in the AquaLogic Data Services Platform</i></a><br/> VLDB 2007, with Vinayak R.Borkar, Michael J. Carey</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2006/aldsp2006.pdf"><i>Query Processing in the AquaLogic Data Services Platform</i></a><br/> VLDB 2006, with Vinayak R.Borkar, Michael J. Carey, Dmitry Lychagin, Till Westmann, Daniel Engovatov</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3>Demos</h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="undercell" colspan=2><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2007/dxqdemo2007.pdf"><i>Highly Distributed XQuery with DXQ</i></a><br/> SIGMOD 2004, with Mary Fernández, Trevor Jim, Kristi Morton, Jérôme Siméon </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2004/yoohoo.pdf"><i>Yoo-Hoo! Building a Presence Service with XQuery and WSDL</i></a><br/> SIGMOD 2004, with Mary Fernández, Richard Hull, Jérôme Siméon</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <a href="publications/2004/gupster2004.pdf"><i>Share your data, keep your secrets</i></a> </br/> SIGMOD 2004, with Irini Fundulaki, Daniel Lieuwen, Arnaud Sahuguet, Guillaume Giraud, Nicolas Pombourcq</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3>Technical Reports</h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="undercell" colspan=2><img src="images/roundbullet.gif"> <i>Querying Data Sources That Export Infinite Sets of Views</i> <br/> UCSD, 2007, with Bogdan Căutiș, Alin Deutsch</td> </tr>  <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3>Teaching</h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="undercell"><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">Spring Quarter 2005</td> <td class="undercell">Teaching Assistant for CSE132B (Database System Applications)</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <h3>Languages</h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="undercell"><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">Romanian</td> <td class="undercell">native language</td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">English</td> <td>advanced - TOEFL score: 273</td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">French</td> <td>advanced - TCF level : 6</td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">Spanish</td> <td>2 years of classes at UCSD Extension</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> <h3>Prizes and Awards</h3></td></tr> <tr><td class="undercell"> 2004-2007</td> <td class="undercell">Jacobs Fellowship, awarded in 2004 to 12 graduate students from the Jacobs School of Eng.</td></tr> <tr><td> 2001-2004</td><td> French Government Fellowship ( Eiffel Excellence Programme) offered each year to about 800-1300 foreign undergraduate and graduate students that French higher education centers have identified as especially deserving of a place on their courses</td></tr> <tr><td> 1999-2001</td><td> Romanian Government Scholarship for very high GPA given to less than 5% of the students each semester </td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> <h3>Technical skills</h3></td></tr> <tr> <td class="undercell">Good skills</td> <td class="undercell">Java, OCaml, C#</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Competency with</td> <td>Latex, HTML</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> <h3>Professional experience</h3></td></tr> <tr> <td class="undercell" ><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">June – September 2008</td> <td class="undercell" >Microsoft Research, Redmond: summer internship </tr> <tr> <td ><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">June – September 2007</td> <td>IBM T.J. Watson: summer internship<br> Implementation of a workflow language in an extension of XQuery with parallelism and side effects (DXQ). The compiler I wrote is also in XQuery. </tr> <tr> <td ><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">July – September 2006</td> <td >IBM T.J. Watson: summer internship<br> Extensions of XQuery with updates, algebraic optimizations for these XQuery extensions, collaborations with the DXQ project </tr> <tr> <td ><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">June – September 2005</td> <td >BEA Systems: summer internship<br> XQuery compiler optimizations for AquaLogic Data Services Platform </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">July – October 2004</td> <td> UCSD: RA-ship in the Database Group<br> Extensions of the <a href="http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/users/nonose/projects/mars/">MARS</a> project for rewriting of RDF queries </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">April - July 2003</td> <td>Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ), research internship.</td> <tr> <td> </td> <td> GUPster, general user profile management in a distributed architecture </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> Added Web Service support to Galax, an implementation of the XQuery language </td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">July - September 2000</td> <td>Popnet Agentscape (Bucharest): developer (Visual C++).<br> Intelligent Internet software (Bonzi Buddy).  </td> </tr> <tr> <td ><img src="images/roundbullet.gif">April - June 2000</td> <td >Macroinformatica (Bucharest): developer (Visual Basic, MSAccess).<br> Software for a printer.  </td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> <h3>Extra-professional experience</h3></td></tr> <tr> <td class="undercell">Journalism</td> <td class="undercell">Former member in the editorial board (2001-2002) and webmaster of XPassion, the cultural magazine of the Ecole Polytechnique students</td> </tr> </table> </center> <div style="margin-top: 20" align="center"><small> <a href="index.html" TARGET="" STYLE="text-decoration: none;">Home</a> | <A HREF="publications.html" TARGET="" STYLE="text-decoration: none;">Publications</A> | <A HREF="projects.html" TARGET="" STYLE="text-decoration: none;">Projects</A>