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Research

• Research Interests: Data stream processing, Database systems, Networked data management.
  

• Current Projects: SECRET, MaxStream, DejaVu, UpStream / Past Projects: Aurora, Borealis.
  

• Selected Publications [ Full List ]

N. Dindar, N. Tatbul, R. J. Miller, L. Haas, I. Botan, "Modeling the Execution Semantics of Stream Processing Engines with SECRET", VLDB Journal, to appear.


R. Kienzler, R. Bruggmann, A. Ranganathan, N. Tatbul, "Stream As You Go: The Case for Incremental Data Access and Processing in the Cloud", IEEE ICDE International Workshop on Data Management in the Cloud (DMC'12), Washington, DC, USA, April 2012. [bibtex]


I. Botan, P. M. Fischer, D. Kossmann, N.Tatbul, "Transactional Stream Processing", International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'12), Berlin, Germany, March 2012. [bibtex]


A. Moga, I. Botan, N. Tatbul, "UpStream: Storage-centric Load Management for Streaming Applications with Update Semantics", VLDB Journal 20(6), December 2011. [bibtex]


M. Duller, J. S. Rellermeyer, G. Alonso, N. Tatbul, "Virtualizing Stream Processing", ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'11), Lisbon, Portugal, December 2011. [bibtex]


N. Dindar, P. M. Fischer, M. Soner, N. Tatbul, "Efficiently Correlating Complex Events over Live and Archived Data Streams", ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS'11), New York, NY, USA, July 2011. [bibtex]


K. Sheykh Esmaili, T. Sanamrad, P. M. Fischer, N. Tatbul, "Changing Flights in Mid-air: A Model for Safely Modifying Continuous Queries", ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'11), Athens, Greece, June 2011. [bibtex]


I. Botan, R. Derakhshan, N. Dindar, L. Haas, R. J. Miller, N. Tatbul, "SECRET: A Model for Analysis of the Execution Semantics of Stream Processing Systems", International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'10), Singapore, September 2010. [bibtex]


N. Tatbul, "Streaming Data Integration: Challenges and Opportunities", IEEE ICDE International Workshop on New Trends in Information Integration (NTII'10), Long Beach, CA, USA, March 2010. [talk slides] [bibtex]


I. Botan, Y. Cho, R. Derakhshan, N. Dindar, A. Gupta, L. Haas, K. Kim, C. Lee, G. Mundada, M. Shan, N. Tatbul, Y. Yan, B. Yun, J. Zhang, "A Demonstration of the MaxStream Federated Stream Processing System", Demonstration, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'10), Long Beach, CA, USA, March 2010. [poster][bibtex]


I. Botan, Y. Cho, R. Derakhshan, N. Dindar, L. Haas, K. Kim, N. Tatbul, "Federated Stream Processing Support for Real-Time Business Intelligence Applications", VLDB International Workshop on Enabling Real-Time for Business Intelligence (BIRTE'09), Lyon, France, August 2009. [talk slides] [bibtex] [revised version also appeared in Springer LNBIP 41]


N. Dindar, B. Guc, P. Lau, A. Ozal, M. Soner, N. Tatbul, "DejaVu: Declarative Pattern Matching over Live and Archived Streams of Events", Demonstration, ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'09), Providence, RI, USA, June 2009. [poster][bibtex]


I. Botan, G. Alonso, P. M. Fischer, D. Kossmann, N.Tatbul, "Flexible and Scalable Storage Management for Data-intensive Stream Processing", International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'09), Saint Petersburg, Russia, March 2009. [bibtex]




M. Akdere, U. Cetintemel, N. Tatbul, "Plan-based Complex Event Detection Across Distributed Sources", International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'08), Auckland, New Zealand, August 2008. [bibtex]




N. Tatbul, U. Cetintemel, S. Zdonik, "Staying FIT: Efficient Load Shedding Techniques for Distributed Stream Processing", International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'07), Vienna, Austria, September 2007. [talk slides] [bibtex]




N. Tatbul, S. Zdonik, "Window-aware Load Shedding for Aggregation Queries over Data Streams", International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'06), Seoul, Korea, September 2006. [talk slides] [bibtex]




D. Abadi, Y. Ahmad, M. Balazinska, U. Cetintemel, M. Cherniack, J. Hwang, W. Lindner, A. Maskey, A. Rasin, E. Ryvkina, N. Tatbul, Y. Xing, S. Zdonik, "The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine", Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR'05), Asilomar, CA, USA, January 2005. [talk slides] [bibtex]




N. Tatbul, U. Cetintemel, S. Zdonik, M. Cherniack, M. Stonebraker, "Load Shedding in a Data Stream Manager", International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'03), Berlin, Germany, September 2003. [talk slides] [bibtex]




D. Abadi, D. Carney, U. Cetintemel, M. Cherniack, C. Convey, S. Lee, M. Stonebraker, N. Tatbul, S. Zdonik, "Aurora: A New Model and Architecture for Data Stream Management", VLDB Journal 12(2), Special Issue on Best Papers of VLDB 2002, August 2003. [bibtex]

Students

• Current Ph.D. Students:
  Cagri Balkesen (w/ Gustavo Alonso)
  

• Alumni:
  Nihal Dindar (Ph.D., December 2012)
  Alexandru Moga (Ph.D., December 2012; first employment: ABB Research)
  Matthias Wetter (M.S., December 2012)
  Rene Buffat (M.S., October 2012)
  Romeo Kienzler (M.S., January 2012)
  Asli Ozal (M.S., June 2011)
  Burak Kalay (M.S., May 2011)
  Ozan Kaya (M.S., May 2011)
  Irina Botan (Ph.D., May 2011, w/ Donald Kossmann; first employment: Avaloq Evolution AG, Zurich)
  Merve Soner (M.S., June 2010)
  Patrick Lau (M.S., November 2009)
  Cagri Balkesen (M.S., June 2009)
  Nihal Dindar (M.S., October 2008)
  

Teaching

• Big Data (Fall'12)

• Information Systems (Spring'12, Spring'11, Fall'09)

• Networked Information Systems ( Fall'11, Fall'10, Spring'09, Spring'08)

• Hot Topics in Data Management Systems:
  "Large-scale Data Analysis with MapReduce" (Spring'12)
  "Innovative Data Systems" (Spring'11)
  "Integrated Stream Processing" (Spring'10)
  "Large-Scale Data Processing in the Cloud" (Spring'09)
  "Web-Scale Data Management" (Spring'08)
  "Sensor Data Management" (Spring'07)
  

• Massively Parallel Data Analysis with MapReduce (Fall'08)

• Information Systems Lab (Spring'12, Spring'11/DEBS Grand Challenge, Spring'10, Fall'07/SmartRFLib Project)

• Advanced Topics in Information Systems:
  "Event Stream Processing" (Fall'07)
  

Recent Service

• Editorial Duties:
  Associate Editor, SIGMOD Record, Research Surveys Column (June 2012 - present)
  Associate Editor, PVLDB, Volume 5 (2011-2012)
  Guest Editor, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Special Issue on Query Processing in Sensor Networks (February 2011)
  

• Conference Organization:
  VLDB'12 (Proceedings Co-chair)
  DMSN'11 (Steering Committee Member)
  DMSN'10 (General Co-chair)
  DMSN'09 (PC Co-chair)
  SIGMOD'09 (Proceedings Chair)
  SIGMOD New Researcher Symposium '09, '08 (Co-chair)
  MDM'09, DEBS'08 (Publicity Co-chair)
  

• Program Committee Memberships:
  VLDB'14, ICDE'14
  SIGMOD'13, VLDB'13, ICDE'13 (Streams, Sensors, CEP track chair), DMC'13, BIRTE'13
  SIGMOD'12 (Demo track), EDBT'12, SSDBM'12, DEBS'12, BIRTE'12
  SIGMOD'11 (Group leader), VLDB'11 (Ph.D. workshop), EDBT'11, DSEP'11, LADIS'11, BIRTE'11, DMSN'11
  SIGMOD'10, VLDB'10 (Demo track), ICDE'10, EDBT'10 (Demo track), SSDBM'10, DEBS'10, BIRTE'10, DMSN'10
  SIGMOD'09, VLDB'09, ICDE'09, MDM'09, WWW'09 (Poster track), DEBS'09, ISCIS'09
  ICDE'08, CIKM'08, MobiDE'08, NetDB'08, RFDM'08, SSPS'08, EDBT'08 (Ph.D. workshop)
  

Contact

Email	tatbul@inf.ethz.ch
Phone	+ 41 44 632 8920
Fax	+ 41 44 632 1059
Office	ETH Zurich Institute of Information Systems CAB F 75 Universitatstrasse 6 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Directions and Maps