AnHai Doan

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Room 4355
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin
1210 W. Dayton St.
Madison WI 53706
anhai@cs.wisc.edu
(608) 262 9759
Fax: (608) 262 9777
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Blog!
  • 11/24/11: Updated CV.
  • 06/10/08: If you write a CAREER proposal soon, you may find my copy useful (see the bottom of this page).
  • 02/19/07: In my spare time I moonlight as a prolific essayist. I write one essay every ten years. My last one appeared in 1997 (in Vietnamese). It has just been re-published in Yesterday's Scents, as one of the best essays of Tuo^?i Tre? newspaper, from 1994 to 2005.
  • 08/28/06: After four wonderful years at Illinois, I am now at UW-Madison, in the Badger State, where the rolling hills hug you gently, the picturesque lakes relax your mind, and the four main food groups are beer, bratwurst, cheese, and coffee.
  • 07/07/05: A draft on research summary.
  • 07/07/05: Well, everyone blogs these days, so I'm joining the crowd. However, this is a strictly "chicken" blog, with intermittent updates in a low-tech manner, and short, choppy sentences. Here's the one for today: I've realized that faculty life consists of nothing but emails, deadlines, meetings, and being late for those three.
  • I'm co-chairing WebDB-05 with Frank Neven. The theme this year is large-scale data integration. Hope to see you there.
  • Check out the two special issues on semantic integration: (1) SIGMOD Record Dec 04 (here is the intro), (2) The issue in AI Magazine Mar 05 is restricted to AAAI members, but here are the table of content, the editorial, and a short survey on semantic integration in the database community.
Research

Databases, AI, and Web, with a current focus on data integration, schema and ontology matching, information extraction, text management, social media, crowdsourcing, and human computation. Current projects:

Selected Recent Publications   (Complete List   DBLP Entry) Recent Talks       Databases and IR @ UIUC       Illinois Semantic Integration Archive
Recent Services   (Complete List)
  • PC Member, SIGMOD-09 (group leader), VLDB-09.
  • PC Member, VLDB-08, ICDE-08, SIGMOD-07, ICDE-07, IJCAI-07
  • Co-chair, The AI Nectar Track, AAAI-06 (Nat. Conf. on AI)
  • PC Member, KDD-06, AAAI-06, the "AI and the Web" track, ICDE-06, CIKM-06, NGITS-06
  • Co-chair, WebDB-05
  • PC Member, SIGMOD-05, VLDB-05, ICML-05, IJCAI-05 (the Int. Joint Conf. on AI)
Awards and Honors
Students Advice for Research, Communication, and Job Hunt
Teaching: Selected Courses
Misc
  • If you write a CAREER proposal soon, you may find mine useful. Here are the summary, description, and references of my proposal (many thanks to those who have generously shared their proposals with me, and a special thank to Marianne Winslett and Kevin Chang who read and gave invaluable advice on my proposal).

    This one was funded on the first try. The reviews were largely positive. One reviewer was somewhat skeptical on whether the proposed research program could actually lead to practical systems (thank you for supporting the proposal nevertheless :). At least two reviewers (justifiably) jumped on the following statement in Sec 4: "Evaluating the first two is well understood and should not pose problems". I should have known better. But I was young then :), so it was easy to commit such "putting one's head into a guillotine" mistakes.