Anhai Doan Speaks Out on His Acm Dissertation Award, Schema Matching, Following Your Passion, Least Publishable Units, And More

摘要

Welcome to this installment of ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today [Summer 2007] we are talking with AnHai Doan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His research interests include databases and AI, with an emphasis on data integration, information extraction, mass collaboration, managing text and unstructured data, and Web technology. AnHai received the ACM Dissertation Award in 2003 for his thesis, entitled Learning to Map between Structured Representations of Data. AnHai received an NSF CAREER Award in 2004, and is currently a Sloan Fellow. His PhD is from the University of Washington. So, AnHai, welcome!