Thomas Hernandez Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Arizona State University Tempe Arizona 85287-5406 Email: firstname.lastname at asu.edu

I joined Amazon.com after having obtained my MS in Computer Science. Check out Amazon.com's career site if you're looking for a challenging and fascinating job!

From November 2002 to October 2004 I was a Research Assistant and member of the Data Integration Team in the Yochan Research Group headed by Professor Subbarao Kambhampati at Arizona State University. My research activities concentrated on online data integration and information retrieval. My MS thesis addresses online collection selection in the context of overlapping text databases.
 

Research

• Interests:
  • Data integration over the web,
  • Collection Selection and source ordering over the web,
  • Statistics mining from web sources,
  • Multi-objective approaches in data integration,
  • Information retrieval in general.

• Publications:

  • Improving Text Collection Selection with Coverage and Overlap Statistics. (Poster, pdf)
    Thomas Hernandez and Subbarao Kambhampati
    In the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), pp. 1128-1129, Chiba, Japan, May 2005.
     

  • Improving Text Collection Selection with Coverage and Overlap Statistics.
    Thomas Hernandez
    M.S. Thesis. Arizona State University. October 2004.
     

  • Integration of Biological Sources: Current Systems and Challenges Ahead. (pdf)
    Thomas Hernandez and Subbarao Kambhampati
    In SIGMOD Record, Vol 33, No 3, pp. 51-60, September 2004.
     

  • BibFinder/StatMiner: Effectively Mining and Using Coverage and Overlap Statistics in Data Integration. (pdf)
    Zaiqing Nie, Subbarao Kambhampati and Thomas Hernandez
    In the 29th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pp. 1097-1100, Berlin, Germany, September 2003.
    Here is the poster for the demo: pdf

Some Personal Interests:

• Hiking and Mountaineering (Pictures)
• Skiing (Pictures)
• Calvin & Hobbes (My favorite strips)
• My personal website (French Version)