Kambiz Aghili

Engineering Manager

Query Optimizer Group

Teradata Corporation

100 N. Sepulveda Blvd (14th Floor)

Los Angeles, CA 90245

 

 

(310) 616-2243

http://www.kambizaghili.com

alireza_aghili @ hotmail dot com

               
 

 

Short Biography


Kambiz [Alireza] Aghili serves as the Engineering Manager in the Query Optimizer Team at Teradata Corporation, actively working on the design, development and delivery of highly scalable, complex and very large databases, active data warehousing, OLAP and parallel query processing functionalities. Prior to his current role, he served at Project Management and Senior Software Engineer Capacities.

Mostly recently, he has been pursuing his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) and the Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara in 2005, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Bilkent University in Ankara-Turkey, respectively.
Academic Background
 

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA), UCLA.

[ 2008 - 2011 ]

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.

[ 2005 ]

  • Master of Science, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.

[ 2004 ]

  • Graduate Degree in Management, University of California, Santa Barbara (deferred).

[ 2004 ]

  • Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

[ 2000 ]
Research & Industrial Experience

 

  • Teradata Corporation, Los Angeles/San Diego, CA

          Query Optimizer Group

[ 2005 - present ]

  • University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

          Similarity Search on Biological and XML Databases

          with Prof. Divyakant Agrawal & Prof. Amr El Abbadi

[ Graduate Researcher,
2002 - 05 ]

  • Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

          Cache Consistency Algorithms on the Web

          with Prof. Ozgur Ulusoy

[ Researcher,
Summer 1999 ]

  • Alcatel A.G., Ankara, Turkey

          SDH, PDH & ATM Networks

[ Intern,
Summer 1998 ]

  • Ira Afzar/Tarfand Rayaneh Software, Tehran

          Management Information Software 

[ Co-Founder, Project Manager,
 1993 - 96 ]

Patents / Invention Disclosure Applications
  • Storage and Processing of Hierarchical Structures in a Parallel Shared-Nothing Architecture, Alireza Aghili, Kuorong Chiang ( U.S. Patent, Disclosure DN07-000422.00, 2007)
  • L-NUSI: Locality-Sensitive Non-Unique Secondary Index, Alireza Aghili ( U.S. Patent, Disclosure DN07-000321.00, 2007)
  • Compacting/Hashing Path-Structures onto Binary Bit-Vectors For Efficient Similarity Search  and Retrieval, Alireza Aghili ( U.S. Patent, Disclosure DN06-000337.00, 2006)
Teaching Experience

     Instructor

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

    • ENG II (Programming Concepts), College of Engineering, [ Fall 2005 ]
      ENG III (Introduction to C Programming), College of Engineering, [ Spring 2005 ]
      COM II (Fund. of Computer Science), Upward Bound Outreach Program, [ Summer 2003 ]

  • Johns Hopkins University, Saint Marys College, [ Summer 2002 ]

    • FCPS (Fundamentals of Computer Science),Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
     Research Mentor

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

    • Mentor to Graduate Students, Research Bridge to Ph.D. Program of NSF
     Teaching Assistant

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

    • CS186 (Theory of Computation), [ Spring 2002 ]
      CS186 (Theory of Computation), [ Winter 2002 ]
      CS176A (Computer Networks), [ Fall 2002 ]
      CS174 (Principles of Databases), [ Spring 2001 ]
      CS160 (Theory and Design of Compilers),       [ Winter 2001 ]

Scientific Publications

 

   Journals
 

1.      Sequence Similarity Search Using Discrete Fourier and Wavelet Transformation Techniques, Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), 14(5): 733-754 (2005).

 

    Conferences

 

2.      FLUX: Content and Structure Matching of XPath Queries with Range Predicates, Hua-Gang Li, Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Proc. of International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)'s workshop on XML Database Systems (XSym), September 10-15, 2006, Seoul, Korea.

3.     Fuzzy Content and Structure Matching of XML Queries, Hua-Gang Li, Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Proc. of The World Wide Web Conference (WWW), May 23-26, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.

4.      TWIX: Twig Structure and Content Matching of Selective Queries using Binary Labeling, Alireza Aghili, Hua-Gang Li, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Proc. of International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCLAE), May 30 - June 1, 2006, Honk Kong.

5.     PADS: Protein Structure Alignment using Directional Shape Signatures, Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Proc. of International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), pp. 17-29, 2005, Beijing, China.

6.      Similarity Search of Protein Structures using Geometrical Features, Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Proc. of Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 148-149, 2004, Washington, DC.

7.      Efficient Filtration of Sequence Similarity Search Through Singular Value Decomposition, Alireza Aghili, Ozgur D. Sahin, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and Biomedical Engineering (BIBE), pp. 403-410, 2004, Taichung, Taiwan.

8.      BFT: Bit Filtration Technique for Approximate String Join in Biological Databases, Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Proc. of International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), pp. 326-340, 2003, Manaus, Brazil.

9.      Filtration of String Proximity Search via Transformation, Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (BIBE), pp. 149-157, 2003, Bethesda, MD.

10.  A Parallel Extension of k-means Algorithm for Very Large Data Sets, Alireza Aghili, Proc. of the Data Mining Workshop, May 2000, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.


    Other  Publications

 

11.  Twig Structure and Content Matching and Ranking of XML Queries using Binary Labeling, Alireza Aghili, Hua-Gang Li, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Technical Report UCSB-TR2005-10, University of California.

12.  MARS: A Matching and Ranking System for XML Content and Structure Retrieval, Hua-Gang Li, Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Technical Report UCSB-TR2005-11, University of California.

13.  Efficient Filtration of Sequence Homology Search Through Singular Value Decomposition, Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Technical Report UCSB-TR2003-19, University of California.

14.  BFT: A Relational-based Bit Filtration Technique for Efficient Approximate String Joins in Biological Databases, Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Technical Report UCSB-TR2003-20, University of California.

15.  Using Transformation Techniques Towards Efficient Filtration of String Proximity Search of Biological Sequences, Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal & Amr El Abbadi, Technical Report UCSB-TR2003-01, University of California.

16.  ADOP: An Efficient Cache Consistency Approach for World Wide Web and Mobile Environments, Alireza Aghili, Bachelor of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science, May 2000, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

Honors, Awards & Scholarships

  • Full Scholarship Award

[ UCSB, 2001 - 05 ]

  • Presidential Work-Study Research Grant

[ UCSB, 2001 - 05 ]

  • Faculty Award of Distinction

[ University of California,
Art Museum, 2005 ]

  • Full Education Scholarship Award

[ Bilkent University, 1997-00 ]

  • High-Honor Undergraduate Student

[ Bilkent University, 1998-00 ]

Professional Activities

  • IALSN Biosciences Group, Board Member

[ 2006 - present ]

  • Conference, Paper Session Chair

          Conf on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)

[ Washington, DC,
November 2004 ]

  • External Conference Reviewer

             SIGMOD, PODS, VLDB, ICDE, CIKM, SSDBM, DASFAA, WWW

[ UCSB, 2002 - present ]

  • Sun Microsystems Student Technology Associate

[ UCSB, 2001 - 02 ]

  • IEEE Student Branch, Mentor, Bilkent University.

[ 2000 - 01 ]

  • IEEE Student Branch, Vice President, Bilkent University.

[ 1999 - 00 ]

References:  Available upon request.