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Biographical sketches of authors
Kun-Lung Wu
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail:
klwu@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Wu received a B.S. degree in electrical
engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1982 and M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in 1986 and 1990, respectively. From 1985 to 1989 he
was a research assistant at the Center for Reliable and
High-Performance Computing, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the summer of 1986 he also worked
as a consultant at Texas Instruments. Since March 1990 Dr. Wu has
been with the IBM Watson Research Center, where he is currently a
research staff member in the Software Tools and Techniques group in the
Internet Technology Department. His current research interests include
data mining tools for the World Wide Web, Internet applications,
interactive information warehousing, database transaction and query
processing, multimedia system designs, and network-centric information
services. Dr. Wu has served as an organizing and program committee
member for various IEEE conferences, and he is a member of the IEEE,
ACM, and Phi Kappa Phi.
Philip S. Yu
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail:
psyu@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Yu received a B.S. degree in E.E. from
the National Taiwan University in 1972, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in E.E.
from Stanford University in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and an M.B.A.
from New York University in 1982. He has been with the IBM Watson
Research Center since 1978 and is currently the manager of the Software
Tools and Techniques group in the Internet Technology Department, of
which one project focuses on developing algorithms and tools for
Internet applications, such as the Web usage mining tool. His current
research interests include data mining, Internet applications, database
systems, multimedia systems, parallel and distributed processing, disk
arrays, computer architecture, performance modeling, and workload
analysis. Dr. Yu has published more than 210 papers and over 150
research reports and invention disclosures. He holds or has applied for
50 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE and was an
editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering, also serving as a guest coeditor of a special issue
on mining of databases. In addition to serving as program committee
member of various conferences, he was the program cochair of the 11th
International Conference on Data Engineering and the program chair of
the 2nd International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering:
Transaction and Query Processing. He will be the general chair of the
14th International Conference on Data Engineering. Dr. Yu has received
several honors, including Best Paper Award, and from IBM two
Outstanding Innovation Awards, an Outstanding Technical Achievement
Award, a Research Division Award, and 19 Invention Achievement Awards.
Allen Ballman
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598. Mr. Ballman is a part-time
researcher at the IBM Watson Research Center, exploring Web usage
mining tools. Along with his interest in developing tools for the
Internet, his research interests are concentrated in the areas of
network-based simulation techniques, caching proxy servers, multimedia
databases, and memory cache designs. Mr. Ballman received his B.A. in
computer science and mathematics from Macalester College in 1992 and is
currently pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science at the State University
of New York-Stony Brook. He is a member of the ACM and
USENIX.
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