Associate Professor, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta. Research interests: web data management, particularly on semistructured data, information extraction and integration, and on Social Network analysis. Member of the NSERC Business Intelligence Network.

Work

ICDE 2013 Tutorial--Shallow IE for the Knowledge Web

EMC 2013 Summer School on Big Data -- Tutorial on text analytics.

ICWSM 2012 Tutorial: Information Extraction for Social Media Analysis

NSERC Business Intelligence Network.

Recent publications; DBLP page (with bibTeX data); ACM author profile.

Projects

  • ReaSoN: Building, Exploring and Querying Social Networks
  • DIT: Discerning Intelligence from Text
  • SII: Semantic Information Integration

In the past I worked on these projects.

NSERC USRA Research Opportunities for full-time undergraduate students at UofA.

Service

Honors

  • Guest speaker at the MITACS MoMiNIS Seminar Series at Dalhousie University
  • Best Paper Award--26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010)
  • Departmental Teaching Award---2009
  • Visiting Professor (BIT); Database and Information Systems group; Free University of Bozen-Bolzano--Summer 2008;
  • Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award, 2007
  • IBM Faculty Award, 2006
  • Alumnus of the Database Group at the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Alberto Mendelzon
  • Visiting faculty at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies since January 2005
  • IBM PhD. Fellowship; Summer 2002 -- Fall 2004

Contact

by mail:
Denilson Barbosa
Department of Computing Science
2-21 Athabasca Hall
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E8
     in person:
Office: ATH 4-51
Phone: +1-780-492-9920

e-mail:
denilson@ualberta.ca

Funding