Kyu-Young Whang speaks out: on academia and startups in Korea, probabilistic counting, main-memory query optimization, how to avoid being a hostage of pressure publishing, and more

ABSTRACT

Welcome to this installment of ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we are at the ICDE 2007 Conference in Istanbul. I have here with me Kyu-Young Whang, who is a professor of computer science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and the director of the Advanced Information Technology Research Center. Before joining KAIST, Kyu-Young was a member of technical staff at IBM TJ Watson Research Center. His research interests are very broad, encompassing many different kinds of database systems as well as data mining and data streaming. He is an editor-in-chief of the VLDB Journal, a former member of the VLDB Endowment, and an IEEE Fellow. Kyu-Young's PhD is from Stanford. So, Kyu-Young, welcome!

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  A. General Literature
  A.m MISCELLANEOUS

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
      H.2.4 Systems
          Subjects: Query processing
      H.2.8 Database applications
          Subjects: Data mining

General Terms:
Design