Building systems to manage unstructured data. Particularly, community information management (CIM) systems that extract and integrate Web data to create structured community portals. Also, improving such portals over time by leveraging communities through mass collaboration and wiki-like interfaces.
Curriculum Vitæ Pedro DeRose
Department of Computer Sciences, 1210 W. Dayton St.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
pderose@cs.wisc.edu
217.898.9662 (cell)
http://www.dedrop.org
http://blog.dedrop.org
Objective and Research Interests
Education
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (2002 - Present)
Advisors: Professors AnHai Doan and Raghu RamakrishnanB.S. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign (1998 - 2001)
Honors and Awards
- CIDR'07 Graduate Student Scholarship 2007
- Departmental Special Achievement Award, University of Illinois 2004
- Cohen Scholarship 2000
- Dean's List, University of Illinois 1998 - 2001
- Chancellor's Scholar, University of Illinois 1998 - 2001
- Edmund J. James Scholar, University of Illinois 1998 - 1999
Professional Experience
Research Assistant Department of Computer Science, Universities of WI and IL (2005 - Present)
Researching CIM under Professors AnHai Doan and Raghu Ramakrishnan:- Developing Cimple, a community information management workbench
- Developing DBLife, a structured Web community portal for the database research community
- Leveraging community members through wikis to maintain and expand structured community portals
Internship Yahoo! Research: Community Systems Group (April - August 2007)
Researched reconciling human and machine opinions under Drs. Raghu Ramakrishnan and Philip Bohannon- Began co-development of a novel system for managing community-driven information extraction
- Co-designed data model for information extraction with lineage and uncertainty
- Developed graphical model to reconcile human and machine opinions in CIM settings
Research Assistant Department of Computer Science, University of IL (2004 - 2005)
Researched dynamic human resource allocation under Professor Roy Campbell:- Application of human factors research to human resource allocation
- Development of task categorization methodology based on cladistics
- Reduction of contextual overhead by accounting for context and representation of tasks
Internship IBM Research at TJ Watson: Autonomic Computing and Grids Group (Summer 2003)
- Developed specification to add relationship information to GWSDL specification
Research Assistant Department of Computer Science, University of IL (2002 - 2004)
Worked on the Autopilot adaptive control system under Professor Dan Reed:- Developed a BLAS/LINPACK wrapper for PlayStation2 matrix multiplication library
- Evaluation of performance/cost for co-processor machines with specialized co-processors
- Dynamic code selection based on system and function parameters
Consultant and Lead Program Developer Technology Concepts Group (Jan 2002 - Jul 2002)
- Designed and developed an n-tier Web version of Maximo, an asset management application
- Developed Web interfaces to mirror and expand Maximo's workorder tracking module
- Developed T-SQL stored procedures to output database discrepancies in HTML
Lead Program Developer MedExpert International, Inc (May 2000 - Dec 2001)
- Designed and led development of an n-tier J2EE application to recommend medical experts
- Implemented business logic to rank physician expertise based on medical articles
- Implemented entity matching logic to disambiguate physician references in PubMed
- Developed an algorithm for phonetic spelling correction of medical terminology
Management Experience
Palace of Projects Software for an interactive art exhibit inspired by Ilya Kabakov (Summer 2005)
- Managed a team of 12 developers and artists over 4-month product cycle
- Final product exhibited at the University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum
BFG: Fire Fighting Fire officer training simulation for the Fire Service Institute (Fall 2005)
- Managed a team of 25 developers over 8-month product cycle
- Interacted with clients to gather requirements, set deadlines, and design the product
BFG: Big Friendly Game Game using Ubisense hardware to merge virtual and physical play (Fall 2004)
- Managed a team of 16 developers and artists
- Interacted with clients to gather requirements and design the product
- One of the main attractions at the Grand Opening of the Siebel Center at the University of IL
Technical Skills
- Knowledge of Web technologies, including HTML, CSS, Javascript, and J2EE
- Proficiency with Java and Perl, knowledge of C, C++, and Visual Basic
- Experience with database systems, including MySQL and SQLite
- Experience with development technologies, including Eclipse, Subversion, and Trac
- 8 years experience administrating a variety of Linux distributions
Publications
- Towards Best-Effort Information Extraction.
- W. Shen,
- P. DeRose,
- R. McCann,
- R. Ramakrishnan,
- A. Doan.
- Building Community Wikipedias: A Machine-Human Partnership Approach.
- P. DeRose,
- X. Chai,
- B. J. Gao,
- W. Shen,
- A. Doan,
- P. Bohannon,
- X. Zhu.
- Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach.
- P. DeRose,
- W. Shen,
- F. Chen,
- A. Doan,
- R. Ramakrishnan.
- Source-aware Entity Matching: A Compositional Approach.
- W. Shen,
- P. DeRose,
- L. Vu,
- A. Doan,
- R. Ramakrishnan.
- DBLife: A Community Information Management Platform for the Database Research Community.
- P. DeRose,
- W. Shen,
- F. Chen,
- Y. Lee,
- D. Burdick,
- A. Doan,
- R. Ramakrishnan.
- User-Centric Research Challenges in Community Information Management Systems.
- A. Doan,
- P. Bohannon,
- R. Ramakrishnan,
- X. Chai,
- P. DeRose,
- B. J. Gao,
- W. Shen.
- Community Information Management.
- A. Doan,
- R. Ramakrishnan,
- F. Chen,
- P. DeRose,
- Y. Lee,
- R. McCann,
- M. Sayyadian,
- W. Shen.
Conference Papers
Demonstrations
Invited Papers
Miscellaneous
Immigration Status
- Citizen of Brazil and Italy
- Permanent Resident of United States
Hobbies
- Video Games
- Movies