“Ziawasch”

Ziawasch Abedjan

Former Postdoctoral Associate
DB Group at CSAIL MIT,

Email: abedjan AT csail DOT mit DOT edu

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
The Stata Center, Building 32-G9
32 Vassar St.
Cambridge, MA 02139

SHORT BIO

I have joined the faculty at the TU Berlin in June 2016. Please visit my new website for the most recent news about my research.

I was a postdoctoral associate in the Database Group at MIT CSAIL, working with Michael Stonebraker. I received my PhD from the University of Potsdam in 2014. I was supervised by Felix Naumann and funded by the HPI Research School on Service-oriented Computing. During my PhD studies, I did an internship in the Data Analytics Group of QCRI, working on incremental key discovery algorithms. My research interests include data mining, data integration, data profiling, and data cleaning.

RESEARCH

Research Interests

Data Integration; Data Cleaning; Data Mining; Data Profiling

Current Projects

DataXFormer
Data Curation

Older Projects

PUBLICATIONS [Google Scholar] [DBLP]

To appear:

Towards Large-Scale Data Discovery. R. Castro-Fernandez, Z. Abedjan, S. Madden and M. Stonebraker. ExploreDB Workshop co-located with SIGMOD 2016
Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done? Z. Abedjan, X. Chu, R. Castro-Fernandez, D. Deng, I. F. Ilyas, M. Ouzzani, P. Papotti, M. Stonebraker and N. Tang. PVLDB 2016

AWARDS

Best Demo Award, SIGMOD 2015:"DataXFormer:An Interactive Data Transformation Tool" with John Morcos, Ihab Ilyas, Mourad Ouzzani, Paolo Papotti, and Michael Stonebraker
Best Dissertation Award 2013/2014, University of Potsdam, Germany (Preis der Universitaetsgesellschaft Potsdam e.V.)
Best Student Paper Award, CIKM 2014: "DFD: Efficient Discovery of Functional Dependencies" with Patrick Schulze and Felix Naumann
Best Workshop Paper Award, Know@LOD 2014: "Amending RDF Entities with new Facts", with Felix Naumann

Professional Activity

Member of ACM
Program Committe:
- WWW PhD Symposium 2016
- SIGMOD 2016
- DesWeb 2015
CIDR 2017 publicity chair
Reviewing Activity:

Journal of Data and Information Quality
Information Systems Journal
ACM Transactions on the Web
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data