MARIE JACOB

Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
3330 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: Levine 575

Phone: 215 573-2582

Email:  majacob[at]cis.upenn.edu

 

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       I'm a third year PhD student in the Department of Computer & Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. I received my Bachelor's degree in CS at York University in Toronto, ON.

I'm a member of the database group at Penn. My broad interests generally lie in data integration techniques in various settings. More specifically, I've been working on the Q system that interactively learns queries and answers based on user feedback. I've also been doing a bit of work in distributed stream projects (ASPEN and SmartCIS).  

My advisor is Zack Ives.

My CV (last updated Nov 22,2009).

 

PUBLICATIONS:

• Mengmeng Liu, Svilen Mihaylov, Zhuowei Bao, Marie Jacob, Zachary Ives, Boon Thau Loo, Sudipto Guha.
  SmartCIS: Integrating Digital and Physical Environments.
  SIGMOD 2009, Demo, Providence, Rhode Island.
  Honourable mention for Best Demo
• Zachary Ives, Craig Knoblock, Steve Minton, Marie Jacob, Partha Talukdar, Rattapoom Tuchinda, Jose Luis Ambite, Maria Muslea, Cenk Gazen.
  Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy and Paste.
  CIDR 2009, Asilomar, CA.
• Zachary Ives, Todd J Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, Nicholas E. Taylor, Val Tannen, Partha Pratim Talukdar, Marie Jacob,Fernando Pereira.
  The Orchestra Collaborative Data Sharing System.
  SIGMOD Record, September 2008.
• Partha Pratim Talukdar, Marie Jacob, Mohammad Salman Mehmood, Koby Crammer, Zachary Ives, Fernando Pereira, Sudipto Guha.
  Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries.
  VLDB 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
  Best Poster Award at DB/IR day, Fall 2008
• Svilen Mihaylov, Marie Jacob, Zachary Ives and Sudipto Guha.
  A Substrate for In-Network Sensor Data Integration.
  DMSN 2008, Auckland, New Zealand .

Before grad school, I worked at Environment Canada, in the ARMP division (Cloud & Severe Weather), primarily being involved in the FRAM project:

• Gultepe, I., S.G. Cober, G. A.Isaac, D. Hudak, P. King, P. Taylor, M. Gordon, P. Rodriguez, B. Hansen, and M. Jacob, 2006. The Fog Remote Sensing and Modeling (FRAM) Field Project And Preliminary Results . AMS Cloud Physics Conference, Wisconsin, USA. AMS Cloud Physics Conf., July 10-15 2006, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

TEACHING:

• TA for CIS 550 and CSE 330 (Fall 2008) - Database and Information systems.
• TA for CIS 455/555 (Spring 2009) - Internet and web systems.

 

PERSONAL:

I was born in Kerala, India, but I grew up in various places including Bahrain, the Emirates, India and Canada.

Links:

• Please help foster, adopt or donate to PAWS (www.paws.org)
• Do consider recycling (yourself) :
  • in Canada (ON)
  • in the US
• My parents' cottage in Parry Sound, ON.
• A few cafes that I love to chill in:
  • Walnut Bridge Coffee house
  • Westend coffee house
  • La Colombe
• A few restaurants that I like to dine at:
  • Pietros
  • Devil's Alley
  • DiBrunos
  • Cosi

Last Updated: 10/21/09