Kraska, Tim

I have defended my PhD thesis and will start as a postdoc at the RADLab, University of California, Berkeley in March.

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I am a Research Assistant (Ph.D. Student) at the Databases and Information Systems group of Prof. Dr. Donald Kossmann, Institute of Information Systems, ETH Zurich, currently working on databases in the cloud.

Research Interests

• Databases in the cloud
• Highly scalable infrastructure
• New consistency and concurrency control models
• XML Data Stream Processing
• XML Query Processing

Projects

• Cloudy - a distributed storage service in the cloud
• Smoky - a distributed streaming service in the cloud
• CloudBench - a benchmark for the cloud
• Mapping Data to Queries (MDQ) - data integration with XQuery
• Zorba - a general purpose XQuery processor implementing in C++

Publications

• Tim Kraska, Martin Hentschel, Gustavo Alonso, Donald Kossmann:
  Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters. VLDB, Lyon, France, 2009. [slides]
• Roger Bamford, Vinayak Borkar, Matthias Brantner, Peter M. Fischer, Daniela Florescu, David Graf, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Dan Muresan, Sorin Nasoi, Markos Zacharioudakis:
  XQuery Reloaded (Industrial Paper). VLDB, Lyon, France, 2009. [slides]
• Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Simon Loesing:
  How is the Weather tomorrow? Towards a Benchmark for the Cloud. DBTest Workshop (SIGMOD 2009), Providence, USA, 2009. [slides]
• Ghislain Fourny, Markus Pilman, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Darin McBeath:
  XQuery in the Browser. WWW, Madrid, Spain, 2009.
• Matthias Brantner, David Graf, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska
  Building a Database on S3. SIGMOD, Vancouver, Canada, 2008 [slides].
• Ghislain Fourny, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Markus Pilman, Daniela Florescu
  XQuery in the Browser. (Demo Paper), SIGMOD, Vancouver, Canada, 2008.
• Tim Kraska (ed)
  XML Query (XQuery) 1.1 Use Cases. W3C Working Draft, 2008.
• Irina Botan, Peter M. Fischer, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Rokas Tamosevicius
  Extending XQuery with Window Functions. VLDB, Vienna, Austria, 2007.
• Tim Kraska and Uwe Röhm
  Genea: Schema-Aware Mapping of Ontologies into Relational Databases. COMAD, Delhi, India, 2006.
• Joshua Wing Kei Ho, Tristan Manwaring, Seok-Hee Hong, Uwe Röhm, David Cho Yau Fung, Kai Xu, Tim Kraska, David Hart
  PathBank: Web-Based Querying and Visualziation of an Integrated Biological Pathway Database. CGIV, Sydney, Australia, 2006.

Technical Reports

• Martin Hentschel, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Jonas Rutishauser, and Daniela Florescu
  Mapping Data to Queries: Semantics of the IS-A Rule. Technical Report, ETH Zurich, November 2007.
• Ghislain Fourny, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Markus Pilman, Daniela Florescu
  XQuery in the Browser. Technical Report, ETH Zürich, November 2007.
• Peter M. Fischer, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Rokas Tamosevicius
  Windows for XQuery – Use Cases. Technical Report, ETH Zurich, Nov 2006
• Irina Carabus, Peter M. Fischer, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Rokas Tamosevicius
  Extending XQuery with Window Functions. Technical Report, ETH Zurich, Nov 2006

Theses

• Tim Kraska
  Continuous XQuery Processing. Master Thesis in Information Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) , Switzerland and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, 2006. The proposed language extension got accepted at the W3C for XQuery 1.1
• Tim Kraska
  Genea Store: Storing OWL in Relational Databases using Generic Mapping Rules - Building an Integrated Database for Metabolic Pathways. Master Thesis in Information Technology at the University of Sydney, Australia with the National ICT Australia (NICTA) and AxoGenic, Australia, 2005
• Tim Kraska
  Analyzing data of sales promotions to derive conceptual controlling instruments. Bachelor Thesis in Information Systems at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany with Deutsche Woolworth GmbH & Co OHG, Germany, 2004

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, Database Introduction lecture, summer term 2009, ETH Zürich
• Teaching Assistant, XML and Database lecture, winter term 2007, ETH Zürich
• Teaching Assistant, Database Introduction lecture, summer term 2007, ETH Zürich
• Teaching Assistant, Algorithms and data structures lecture, summer term 2004, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
• Private lecturer, Introduction to Databases and Introduction to Microsoft Office, 06/2001 to 01/2004, Erwachsenenbildungswerk Westfalen, Germany

Other Professional Activities

• Member of the W3C XQuery Working Group
• Member of the FLWOR Foundation

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