Chen Li

Education:

• Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1996 - 8/2001
  Ph.D. in Computer Science Department. Academic advisor: Jeffery D. Ullman.
• Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 9/1996 - 9/1998
  Earned M.S. degree of Computer Science.
• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 9/1994 - 7/1996,
  Earned M.S. Degree of Computer Science.
• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 9/1989 - 7/1994,
  Earned B.S. Degree of Computer Science and B.S. Degree (Minor) of Enterprise Management.

• Research Assistant, TSIMMIS Project, InfoLab, Stanford University, CA, Sept. 96 - 8/2001
  Doing research on wrapping and mediation of heterogeneous information sources.
• Supplemental Engineer, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, November, 2000 - 8/2001
  Doing research on databases and web-related technologies.
• Part-time Consultant, CommonObject.com, San Mateo, CA, June, 2000 - 8/2001
  Designing and implementing the database system in the company.
• Researcher on multimedia databases, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA, Sept. 97 - 8/2001
  Designed and implemented the prototype of the RIME image database
• Summer Intern, Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, June 98 - Sept. 98.
  Ported a main-memory database to a shared-memory system. Implemented a tool to measure the performance of applications on Pentium II processor.
• Software Engineer, Lifetide Medical Health Inc., Beijing, China. May 96 - June 96.
  Used Borland C 4.5 to implement a system's GUI and also its serial port communication with 4 devices.
• Researcher, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. June 95 - Sept. 95
  Worked on a research project of parallel computing and high-speed network.
• Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Sept.93 - June 96
  Worked on the project "Workstation Cluster," did research on parallel and distributed processing, and high-performance network

• Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA, March 99 - June 99
  Class CS347: "Transaction Processing and Distributed Databases." Instructor: Hector Garcia-Molina.
• Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA, Sept. 98 - Dec. 98
  CS145, "Introduction to Databases." Instructor: Jeffery D. Ullman.

1. Query Processing and Optimization in Information-Integration Systems. Chen Li. Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, August, 2001.
2. Generating Efficient Plans for Queries Using Views. Foto Afrati, Chen Li, and Jeff Ullman. To appear in the Proc. of the 30th ACM SIGMOD Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2001.
3. Minimizing View Sets without Losing Query-Answering Power. Chen Li, Mayank Bawa, and Jeff Ullman. In the 8th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), London, UK, January, 2001.
4. On Answering Queries in the Presence of Limited Access Patterns. Chen Li and Edward Chang. In the 8th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), London, UK, January, 2001.
5. Query Planning with Limited Source Capabilities. Chen Li and Edward Chang. International Conference on Database Engineering, San Diego, CA, February, 2000.
6. Managing Parallel Disks for Continuous Media Data. Edward Chang, Chen Li, and Hector Garcia-Molina. A Book Chapter in Information Organization & Databases, p.107-120, Kluwer Publisher, 2000
7. Towards Perception-Based Image Retrieval. Edward Chang, Beitao Li, and Chen Li. Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries, p. 401-412, South Carolina, June, 2000.
8. Searching Near-Replicas of Images via Clustering. Edward Chang, Chen Li, James Wang, Peter Mork, and Gio Wiederhold. Proc. of SPIE Symposium of Voice, Video, and Data Communications, Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems VI, Boston, MA, September, 1999.
9. Computing Capabilities of Mediators. Ramana Yerneni, Chen Li, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey Ullman. SIGMOD'99, Philadelphia, PA, May 1999.
10. Optimizing Large Join Queries in Mediation Systems. Ramana Yerneni, Chen Li, Jeffrey Ullman, Hector Garcia-Molina. International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), Jerusalem, Israel, January, 1999.
11. RIME: A Replicated Image Detector for the World-Wide Web. Edward Chang, James Ze Wang, Chen Li, and Gio Wiederhold. Proceedings of SPIE Symposium of Voice, Video, and Data Communications, Boston, MA, November 1998.
12. 2D BubbleUp: Managing Parallel Disks for Media Servers. Edward Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Chen Li.The 5th International Conference of Foundations of Data Organization (FODO'98), Kobe, Japan, 1998.
13. Capability Based Mediation in TSIMMIS. Demo. Chen Li, Ramana Yerneni, Vasilis Vassalos, Hector Garcia-Molina, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Jeffrey Ullman, Murty Valiveti. SIGMOD'98, Seattle, WA, June, 1998.
14. HiComm -- A New Technique for Improving Communication Performance in Workstation Cluster. Chen Li, Weiqiang Zhuang, Meiming Shen, Dingxing Wang, Weimin Zheng, APPT'95, October, 1995, Beijing, China.
15. Performance Analysis of the Communication Mechanism for POE Workstation Cluster. Weiqiang Zhuang, Chen Li, Meiming Shen. Microcomputer & Micro-system, Jan, 1995

1. Testing Query Containment in the Presence of Limited Access Patterns. Chen Li and Edward Chang. Technical report, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, November, 1999.
2. Computing Complete Answers to Queries in the Presence of Limited Access Patterns. Chen Li. Technical report, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, November, 1999.
3. Clindex: Clustering for Similarity Queries in High-Dimensional Spaces. Chen Li, Edward Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina, James Wang, and Gio Wiederhold. Technical report, SIDL-WP-1998-0100, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, February, 1999.

• C, C++, Java, Programming in UNIX environment, Lex, Yacc, Visual BASIC, SQL, Assembly(X86, SPARC), PASCAL, FORTRAN, Foxbase, Foxpro, PVM, Express
• UNIX, MS Windows, Windows NT, MacOS