Current Projects

Luis Gravano

• Information Extraction for Public Health
• Information Extraction at Columbia
• Event Identification in Social Media

Kenneth Ross

• Query Optimization for Data Intensive Applications

Eugene Wu

Eugene Wu heads the WuLab, focused on tools to accelerate the democratization of data. His projects include:

• Data Visualization Management Systems
• Database Explanation
• Machine Learning Explanation
• Precision Interfaces
• Crowdsourced Data Acquisition
• Data Cleaning for Data Science

Past Projects

• Database Algorithms for Modern CPU Memory Hierarchies
• DPU: Database Processing Unit
• Database Processing on GPUs
• Database Parallelism on Multicore Machines
• Rapid Updates and Snapshot-Based Queries Using Multicore Processors
• The Columbia Fast Query Project
• Computational Tools for Modeling, Visualizing and Analyzing Historic and Archaeological Sites
• Romanesque Architecture of the Bourbonnais: Tools for Discovery
• Multiscale Analysis of Genomic and Cellular Networks
• RANK: Top-k query processing
• Snowball and QXTract, building blocks for efficient information extraction
• QProber, a system for automatically classifying and searching "hidden-web" text databases
• SDARTS, a protocol and toolkit for metasearching
• GeoSearch, a geographically-aware search engine