Since 1996, he has been interested in ETL and data warehouse
server-side problems with particular attention to the population aspects related to
transformation and loading vast amounts of data into data warehouses. He has been
technical leader in ideation and development of the infrastructure based ETL.
Pedro Furtado is an assistant professor of computer sciences at the University of
Coimbra, Portugal where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula,
mostly in data management related areas. He is also an active researcher in the
databases group of the CISUC research laboratory. His research interests include
data warehousing, approximate query answering, parallel and distributed database
systems, with a focus on performance and scalability and data management in distributed
data intensive systems. He received a PhD in computer science from the
University of Coimbra-Portugal in 2000.
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Ashima Gupta obtained a BS in computer science in 1998 from Fergusson College,
University of Pune, Pune, India. She earned an MS in computer science in 2002
from the University of Cincinnati. She worked for three years as a systems analyst
in the Pediatric Informatics Department at Cincinnati Children??™s Hospital Research
Foundation where she researched and implemented computational methods and applications
to facilitate genome research (http://cismols.
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