Yuqing (Melanie) Wu

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

E-mail

Phone

(812) 856-1872

Fax

(812) 855-4829

Office

Lindley Hall, Room 301E

Web Site

www.cs.indiana.edu/~yuqwu

Research Interests

Database systems, XML, database query languages, query optimization, data integration, data mining and knowledge discovery.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004. M.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington, 1999.

Biography

Professor Wu has recently completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She earned her M.S. degree from IU Bloomington in December 1999 and an M.S./B.S. degree from Peking University, China. Dr. Wu completed research internships at IBM Almaden Research Center as well as Microsoft Research in 2002 and 2003. Prof. Wu joined IU in 2004 as an assistant professor of informatics and an adjunct assistant professor of computer science.

Prof. Wu is one of the founders of the TIMBER project under development at the University of Michigan, a high performance native XML database system capable of operating at large scale, through use of a carefully designed tree algebra and judicious use of novel access methods and optimizations techniques. Prof. Wu's research covers XML data storage, XML indexing, query processing, query optimization, query parsing and rewriting, and focuses on cost-based query optimization of XML queries

Prof. Wu is leading the research project on Access Control for XML (ACXESS) at Indiana University, focusing on developing a framework for flexible access constraint specification, representation and efficient enforcement.

Prof. Wu is also involved in research related to data integration, data mining, and knowledge discovery.