Le Gruenwald

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Mobile and distributed databases, multimedia databases, real-time databases, object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and data mining.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Le Gruenwald is the David W. Franke Professor and Director of the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and a Program Director of the Information Integration and Informatics cluster, the Information Privacy and Security cross-cutting area and the Cyber Trust program at National Science Foundation. She received her PhD degree in computer science from Southern Methodist University in 1990. Prior to joining OU, She worked for White River Technologies as a Software Engineer, Southern Methodist University as a faculty member in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, and NEC America, Advanced Switching Laboratory as a Member of the Technical Staff in the Database Management Group.

Dr. Gruenwald's major research interests include Mobile and Sensor Databases, Data Security, Privacy and Confidentiality, Stream Data Management, Data Mining, Real-Time Distributed Databases, Autonomic Data Management, Multimedia Databases and Web Databases. She has published more than one hundred technical papers in books, journals, and conference proceedings (http://www.cs.ou.edu/~database/publications.htm).

Dr. Gruenwald is serving as the cognizant program director for the 2008 Workshop on Data and Application Security, the area editor of Sensor Networks for the Encyclopedia of Database Systems and a co-editor of the special issue on Stream Data Management for IEEE Internet Computing.  She was a co-chair of the 2007 Workshop on Text Data Mining and Management, a co-chair of the 2006 NSF Working Group on Data Confidentiality, a co-organizer of the 2006 Dagstuhl Seminar on Scalable Data Management for Evolving Networks, a registration co-chair of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, a co-chair of the 2006 International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems and the 2003 International Workshop on Knowledge, Ontology, Meta data, Meaning, Matters, a chair of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD Undergraduate Scholarship committee, a co-chair of the 1998 International Workshop on Real-Time and Active Databases, and a database session chair and a program committee member for many other international conferences. She was a visiting scholar at University of Clemont Ferrand in France, University of Paderborn in Germany, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and IBM India Research Lab in Delhi, India.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Jianting Zhang, Weiguo Liu, Le Gruenwald: A Successive Decision Tree Approach to Mining Remotely Sensed Image Data (Chapter 6).  Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Challenges and Realities with Real World Data, Xingquan Zhu and Ian Davidson (Ed.), Idea Group Publishing, Inc., February 2007, ISBN 1-59904-252-5.

Jilin Han, Le Gruenwald, Tyrrel Conway: Data Mining in Gene Expression Data Analysis: A Survey (Chapter XIII). Managing and Processing Complex Data for Decision Support, Jerome Darmont and Omar Boussaid (Ed.), Idea Group Publishing, Inc., April 2006, ISBN: 1-59140-655-2.

Nan Jiang, Le Gruenwald: Research issues in data stream association rule mining.  SIGMOD Record Vol. 35, No. 1, 2006.

Le Gruenwald, Shankar M. Banik, Chuo N. Lau: Managing real-time database transactions in mobile ad-hoc networks. Accepted for publication in Distributed and Parallel Databases, 2006.

Stefan Bottcher, Le Gruenwald, Sebastian Obermeier: A Failure Tolerating Atomic Commit Protocol for Mobile Environments. Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2007;

Nan Jiang, Le Gruenwald: Estimating Missing Data in Data Streams. Accepted for publication in the proceeding sof the 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) 2007.

Sylvain Guinepain, Le Gruenwald: Automatic Database Clustering Using Data Mining.  Database and Expert Systems and Applications (DEXA)-International Workshop on Self-Adaptable and Autonomic Computing Systems 2006.

Prasanna Padmanabhan, Le Gruenwald: Managing Data Replication in Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Databases. International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,  Applications and Worksharing 2006;

Le Gruenwald, Prasanna Padmanabhan and Mihail Halatchev: Data Management in Mobile and Sensor Databases. Dagstuhl Seminar on Data Management for Scalable Evolving Networks, 2006.