Jignesh Patel

Name:

Jignesh Patel, Professor

Room:

4384

Ph.D. Institution:

University of Wisconsin-Madison

External profile:

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Bio:

Jignesh Patel is a Professor in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which is where he also got his PhD. He has been working on what is now called “big data” for the last two decades. He is the recipient of an NSF Career Award, and multiple IBM and Microsoft faculty awards.

Research interests:

Database Management Systems: green computing; cost-effective large-scale data processing; graph and sequence data analytics.

Selected Publications:

Core DB

Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs , S. Blanas, Y. Li and J. M. Patel, SIGMOD 2011.
Turbocharging DBMS Buffer Pool Using SSDs, J. Do, D. Zhang, J. M. Patel, D. J. DeWitt, J. F. Naughton and A. Halverson, SIGMOD 2011.
Column-Oriented Storage Techniques for MapReduce, A. Floratou, J. M. Patel, E. J. Shekita and S. Tata, PVLDB 2011.
Rethinking Query Processing for Energy Efficiency: Slowing Down to Win the Race, W. Lang, R. Kandhan and J. M. Patel, IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 34(1): 12-23 (2011).
Energy Management for MapReduce Clusters, W. Lang, J. M. Patel and S. Shankar, VLDB 2010.
Wimpy Node Clusters: What About Non-Wimpy Workloads?, W. Lang, J. M. Patel and S. Shankar, DaMoN 2010. Best paper award. Hamilton's Blog Perspective.
A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce, S. Blanas, J. M. Patel, V. Ercegovac, J. Rao, E. J. Shekita and Y. Tian, SIGMOD 2010
Towards Eco-friendly Database Management Systems, W. Lang and J. M. Patel, CIDR 2009.
Data Morphing: An Adaptive, Cache-Conscious Storage Technique, R. A. Hankins and J. M. Patel, VLDB 2003

Sequences and Graphs

WHAM: A High-throughput Sequence Alignment Method, Y. Li, A. Terrel and J. M. Patel, SIGMOD 2011. Download WHAM
SigMatch: Fast and Scalable Multi-Pattern Matching, R. Kandhan, N. Teletia and J. M. Patel, VLDB 2010. Download SigMatch
Discover-Driven Graph Summarization, N. Zhang, Y. Tian and J. M. Patel, ICDE 2010.
Efficient Aggregation for Graph Summarization, Y. Tian, R. Hankins and J. M. Patel, SIGMOD 2008.

List of all publications at DBLP, and at PubMed

Current teaching:

CS 564: Database Management Systems (S11, S10, S09)
CS 764: Topics in Database Management Systems (F10, F09, F08)

Selected Professional Activities:

Core Database Technology PC Chair, VLDB 2009.
Recent Program Committees: SIGMOD 2011, SIGMOD 2009, VLDB 2008, VLDB 2007, SIGMOD 2007.

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