Rana Alotaibi | رنا العتيبي

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Office: EBU3B 3231
Email:
Bio

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, advised by Alin Deutsch in the Computer Science and Engineering Department . While at UCSD, I was a member of the Database Lab and Center for Networked Systems.

My research interest lies broadly at the intersection of database theory and big data management systems. My current research focuses on cross-data model query optimization in heterogeneous settings, languages/models for integrating disparate data and scalable self-tuning big data management systems.

[ Google Scholar ] | [ DBLP ]

News
  • March, 2022 - Ioana Manolescu presented HADAD at University of Oxford, Data and Knowledge Seminar
  • Dec, 2021 - I serve as a Program Committee Member of DBML workshop @ICDE'22
  • July, 2021 - HADAD is accepted to BDA'21. [Best Paper Award]
  • July, 2021 - HADAD and ESTOCADA are presented in Huawei Cloud InnovWave Conference 2021
  • March, 2021 - Our paper on optimizing hybrid analytical tasks is accepted to SIGMOD 2021.
  • Jan, 2021 - I will be joining Microsoft Gray Systems Lab this summer as a research intern. Looking forward to a great summer!
  • June, 2020 - Presented our work Towards Scalable Polystore Systems - Microsoft Gray Systems Lab (invited talk)
  • May, 2020 - ESTOCADA demo has been accepted to VLDB 2020
  • June, 2019 - I am now a PhD candidate at UC San Diego!
Education

University of California, San Diego

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, 2016.09 - 2022.06

University of California, San Diego

Master of Computer Science, 2014.9 - 2016.6

AL-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Bachelor of Computer Science & Information System, 2006.9 - 2011.6

Research and Industry Experience

Microsoft, Redmond, WA

IBM Research Almaden Center, San Jose, CA

  • Team: Database Group
  • Research Intern, 2018.6 - 2018.9
  • Desgined and developed an ontology-driven approach for property graph schema design for domain-specific knowledge graphs.
  • Mentor: Chuan Lei | Manager: Fatma Ozcan

IBM Research Almaden Center, San Jose, CA

INRIA Saclay, France

  • Team: CEDAR
  • Research Intern, 2016.8 - 2016.10
  • Designed and developed a cross-model integration query language, which allows simultaneous access to various data stores and models such as documents, key-value, relational, etc
  • Mentor: Damian Bursztyn, Manager: Ioana Manolescu
Publications
  • FAQ Constraints-based Rewriting Rana Alotaibi, Bogdan Cautis, Alin Deutsch, Hung Q. Ngo, Dan Suciu , Under prepration, based on [FAQ: Questions Asked Frequently]
  • Heterogeneous Data Management Revisited: from Mediators to Modern Polystores [Tutorial] Rana Alotaibi, Maxime Buron, Alin Deutsch, François Goasdoué and Ioana Manolescu , French Summer School on Massive Distributed Data (MDD) 2022
  • HADAD: A Lightweight Approach for Optimizing Hybrid Complex Analytics Queries Rana Alotaibi, Bogdan Cautis, Alin Deutsch and Ioana Manolescu, ACM SIGMOD 2021 | BDA'21 (Best Paper Award) , [PDF][arxiv][Short-Talk][Long-Talk]
  • Property Graph Schema Optimization for Domain-Specific Knowledge Graphs. Rana Alotaibi, Chuan Lei, Abdual Quamar, Vasilis Efthymiou and Fatma Özcan, ICDE 2021, [PDF][arxiv]
  • Estocada: Towards Scalable Polystore Systems. Rana Alotaibi, Bogdan Cautis, Alin Deutsch, Moustafa Latrache, Ioana Manolescu and Yifei Yang, PVLDB 2020 , [PDF]
  • Towards Scalable Hybrid Stores: Constraint-Based Rewriting to the Rescue. Rana Alotaibi, Damian Bursztyn, Alin Deutsch, Ioana Manolescu, Stamatis Zampetakis, ACM SIGMOD 2019, [PDF]
  • Towards Scalable Hybrid Stores: Constraint-Based Rewriting to the Rescue. Rana Alotaibi, Damian Bursztyn, Alin Deutsch, Ioana Manolescu, Stamatis Zampetakis, BDA Conference on Data Management 2019
  • Estocada: Hybrid Storage and Rewriting under Integrity Constraints. Rana Alotaibi, Francesca Bugiotti, Damian Bursztyn, Alin Deutsch, Ioana Manolescu, Stamatis Zampetakis, BDA Conference on Data Management 2016
Research Talks, Posters and Demos
  • Generalized Computation Reuse Framework in Analytics Job Service at Microsoft. Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab . Sept 2021. Talk
  • HADAD: A Lightweight Approach for Optimizing Hybrid Complex Analytics Queries. ACM SIGMOD'21. Talk
  • Towards Scalable Polystore Systems. Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab . June 2020. Invited talk
  • Estocada: Towards Scalable Polystore Systems. VLDB'20. Demo
  • Towards Scalable Hybrid Stores: Constraint-Based Rewriting to the Rescue. ACM SIGMOD'19. Talk and poster
  • Towards Scalable Polystore Systems. UCSD Open Research House. Feb 2018. Short talk
  • ESTOCADA: Hybrid Storage and Rewriting under Integrity Constraints. SoCal DB Day. Sept 2018. Poster
  • Ontology-Driven Property Graph Schema Design for Domain-Specific Knowledge Graphs. IBM Research Almaden Summer Symposium. September 2018. Poster
  • Workload-aware Data Placement and Querying of Knowledge-bases over Hybrid Stores. IBM Research Almaden Summer Symposium. San Jose, CA. September 2017. Talk and poster
Patents
  • Reducing Response Time for Queries Directed to Domain-Specific Knowledge Graph using Property Graph Schema Optimization, Chuan Lei, Abdual Quamar, Vasilis Efthymiou, Fatma Özcan, Rana Alotaibi. Patent US App. 16/800,392
  • Ontology-based Query Routing for Domain Specific Knowledge Bases, Abdual Quamar, Fatma Özcan, Rana Alotaibi. Patent US App. 16/594,460
  • Ontology-based Data Storage for Domain Specific Knowledge Bases, Abdual Quamar, Fatma Özcan, Rana Alotaibi, Chuan Lei. Patent US App. 16/594,391
Teaching Experience

University of California, San Diego

Mentored Students
  • Yifei Yang (MS, CSE UCSD) -> PhD Student at University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Ray Andrus ( BS, CSE UCSD)
Service
  • External Reviewer: SIGMOD 2022
  • Program Committee: DBML@ICDE'22
Awards and Scholarships
  • Fall, 2016. Ph.D. Scholarship, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).
  • Fall, 2014. M.Sc. Scholarship, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).