Biographical sketches of authors

Serge Bourbonnais IBM Software Division, Silicon Valley Laboratory, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, California 95141 (bourbon@us.ibm.com). Mr. Bourbonnais is a product architect in the Information Integration development group where he works on technologies for data placement, replication, and XML data stores. He holds a Master's degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo.

Vitthal M. Gogate IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120 (gogate@almaden.ibm.com). Mr. Gogate is an advisory software engineer in the Computer Science Department at the Almaden Research Center where he works on data grid technologies. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India in 1991 and 1994 respectively. He started his career with Center for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC), a research organization in super-computing where he developed parallel algorithms in image and signal processing on the first Indian supercomputer, PARAM. For his work on DB2 DataLinks technology at IBM Almaden Research Center, he received a Special Contribution Award.

Laura M. Haas IBM Software Division, Silicon Valley Laboratory, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, California 95141 (lmhaas@us.ibm.com). Dr. Haas is a Distinguished Engineer and the manager of DB2 Information Integrator development. Previously, Dr. Haas was a research staff member and manager at the IBM Almaden Research Center. She is best known for her work on the Starburst query processor (from which DB2 UDB was developed), and on Garlic, a system that supports federation of heterogeneous data sources, a key technology for DB2 Information Integrator. Dr. Haas is Vice President of the VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees.

Randy W. Horman IBM Data Management Division, IBM Toronto Lab, 8200 Warden Ave, Markham, Ontario, L6G 1C7 (horman@ca.ibm.com). Mr. Horman is a Senior Technical Staff Member on the DB2 Universal Database development team at the IBM Toronto Lab. He received a B.A. degree in mathematics, computer science, and economics, as well as an M.Math degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo in 1994 and 1995, respectively. He subsequently joined IBM to work on DB2 Parallel Edition. Recently, Mr. Horman has focused his attention on database manageability, and in particular the applicability of autonomic technology. Mr. Horman is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Susan Malaika IBM Software Group, 17 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 (malaika@us.ibm.com). Ms. Malaika is a Senior Technical Staff Member with the DB2 Information Integrator development group. She works in the area of grid computing, is active in the Global Grid Forum and is co-author of a number of GGF specifications and documents. She has also worked on Web services and XML integration in DB2, DRDA, SQL/PSM, and transactions. She also co-edited and co-authored a book entitled, “Web Gateway Tools.” She is a member of the IBM Academy Technology Council.

Inderpal Narang IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120 (narang@us.ibm.com). Mr. Narang is a Distinguished Engineer in the Computer Science Department at IBM Almaden Research Center and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. In his earlier career in IBM, he worked on the multisystem clustering of DB2 and OS/390^®, also known as DB2 data sharing. He made fundamental contributions to the architecture and algorithms of IBM's coupling facility and DB2 data sharing for which he received IBM corporate and innovation awards. He has published several papers and holds many patents in these areas. He is the inventor of the DataLinks technology for which he received an Outstanding Innovation Award. Currently he is leading the On Demand Information Systems Group in the IBM Research Division.

Vijayshankar Raman IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120 (ravijay@us.ibm.com). Dr. Raman is a research staff member in the Computer Science Department at IBM Almaden Research Center. His main interests are in query processing and optimization and distributed systems. Dr. Raman received his Ph.D degree from the University of California at Berkeley. In his thesis he developed several new interactive query-processing algorithms, including the idea of State Modules, which are used extensively in the university's Telegraph adaptive dataflow system. Dr. Raman also developed the open-source data cleansing and transformation tool Potter's Wheel A-B-C. He has been awarded a Microsoft Fellowship and an AT&T Asia-Pacific Leadership Award.