Associate Professor Computer Science Rice University email: cmj4@cs.rice.edu phone: (713) 348-5690 office: 3028 Duncan Hall mailing address: 3122 Duncan Hall 6100 Main St, Houston, TX, 77005
Christopher Jermaine
My Research. I study how to build and use analytic databases. “Analytic database” refers to a database that has been collected with the purpose of helping an end-user understand some little slice of reality. For example, a group of hospitals may pool together their data with the goal of creating a database that can be used to understand how the bugs (microbes) that patients acquire in the hospital evolve their resistance to antibiotic drugs over time. This would be an “analytic database.”
Within the general area of analytic databases, my interests are quite broad. At one extreme, I study how to build systems software that can be used to store and query very large analytic databases. Two research prototype analytic database systems that I have worked on are DBO and DataPath. At the other extreme, I work on new ways to analyze the data stored in an analytic databases (particularly for biomedical applications; see here and here). Much of that work is quite statistical in nature, with an emphasis on Bayesian analysis. I also combine my statistical and systems interests by building systems software that allows for stochastic analytics to be run directly within a database system. One system we are working on for this purpose is called MCDB (see this paper that describes MCDB).
You can find a mostly complete list of my publications by going to the DBLP server.
About
Me. I
received a BA from the Mathematics Department at UCSD,
an MSc from the Computer Science
and Engineering Department at OSU (my advisor at OSU was Renee Miller, who is now at Toronto), and a PhD
from the College of Computing at Georgia
Tech (my advisor at Georgia Tech was Ed Omiecinski). I am
the recipient of a 2008 Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and a 2007 ACM SIGMOD
Best Paper Award. I have been at Rice
since January, 2009, and I have been on the faculty of the computer science department at the University of Florida since 2002, and will
continue to be affiliated with UF until I officially resign in August, 2010. I
am an associate editor for ACM
Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering, and the Very Large Database Journal.
In my spare time, I enjoy running, gardening, and outdoor activities such as hiking,
climbing, and whitewater boating. In one particular exploit, my wife and I
floated a whitewater raft (home-made from scratch using
a sewing machine, glue, and plastic) over 100 miles down the Nizina River (and beyond) in Alaska.
Last
updated on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010.