Department of Computer Science Email: campana1@nku.edu
College of Informatics Phone: 859-572-5776
Northern
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Thesis:
"Contributions to Data Mining. New Techniques and Applications"
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Advisor:
Professor Leon Tambulea
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Distinction:
Magna Cum Laude
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Thesis:
"ActiveX Data Objects"
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Advisor:
Professor Leon Tambulea
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Graduated
the M.S. degree with the average of 10 (out of 10)
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Thesis:
"Models for Concurrency Specification"
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Advisor:
Assistant Professor Simona Iurian
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Average
over all four academic years of 9.57 (out of 10)
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Passed
the Graduation Exam with the average of 9.50 (out of 10)
Classes taught:
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iPhone Application Development (CSC 494/594, team-taught
Spring 2010)
§ Web Programming (CSC/CIT
301 Spring 2009, Spring 2010)
§ Data Structures
and Algorithms (CSC 364 Fall 2008)
§ Introduction to
Web Development (INF 286 Fall 2008, INF 286 Pace Fall 2009);
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Object-Oriented Programming II (CSC 360 Spring 2008,
Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010);
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Introduction to Databases (INF 282 Fall 2007, Spring
2008);
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Object-Oriented Programming I (INF 260 Fall 2007, Spring
2008, Fall 2009);
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Object-Oriented Programming I Lab (INF 260L Fall 2007,
Fall 2009, Fall 2010);
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E-Commerce (course, laboratory);
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Database Concepts (course, laboratory) ;
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Computer Interface and Communication in Internet (course,
laboratory) ;
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Algorithms and Programming (laboratory) ;
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Functional Programming and Logic Programming (laboratory);
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Computer Graphics (laboratory);
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Database Servers (laboratory);
§ Parallel Computing
(laboratory).
§ Achieving
Privacy While Preserving Data Utility, NKU CINSAM
Research Grant (with Dr.
Traian M. Truta), November 2008.
§ Evaluating
Web Application Security in an Open Source World, NKU
CINSAM Research Grant
(with Dr. James Walden, Dr. Maureen Doyle, and Dr. Dhanuja Kasturiratna), November 2008.
§ Methods, Models and Systems Of Data Processing
For Natural Sciences (Metode si modele robuste de procesare a
datelor cu aplicatii in stiintele naturii), PI Professor Horia F. Pop, (
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Efficient IT Problem Solving Using Data Mining
Techniques: Intelligent Design of Distributed Object-Oriented Databases,
Congestion Control in Internet, PI Teaching Assistant Alina
Campan (Babes-Bolyai
University), a National
University Research Council grant TD no 4 NURC code 33, 2006.
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Efficient IT Problem Solving Using Data Mining
Techniques: Intelligent Design of Distributed Object-Oriented Databases,
Congestion Control in Internet, PI Teaching Assistant Alina
Campan (Babes-Bolyai
University), a National
University Research Council grant TD no 3 NURC code 33, 2005.
§ Systems for
Supporting Collaborative Decisions in High Education Environments Case Study,
UBB (Sisteme de
asistare a deciziilor colaborative ξn medii universitare - Studiu de caz UBB), PI Professor Stefan Nitchi (Babes-Bolyai University), a Babes-Bolyai
University internal grant TP no 2/2005, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2005-2007.
§ Expert
(see Publications)
§ Yahoo! Research Best Paper Award, for the
research paper A Clustering Approach for
Data and Structural Anonymity in Social Networks, Campan, A., Truta, T.M.,
at the 2nd ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security,
and Trust in KDD (PinKDD2008).
§ User-Controlled Generalization Boundaries for P-Sensitive K-Anonymity, The
25th Symposium on Applied Computing, Data Mining (ACM SAC DM 2010),
Sierre, Switzerland, March 24, 2010.
§ Emerging
Privacy Threats for Health Data, as
part of the DIMACS Tutorial: Statistical De-Identification of Confidential Health
Data with Application to the HIPAA Privacy Regulations, DIMACS Center, Rutgers
University, April 30 May 1, 2009.
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Privacy
in Social Networks,
CINSAMs Fifth Friday Research Poster Session, Northern Kentucky University,
Highland Heights, Kentucky,
USA, September 2008.
§ New Privacy Protection Models, 13th Annual Kentucky EPSCoR Statewide
Conference, Lexington Convention Center, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, October
2007.
§ New Privacy Protection Models CINSAMs Fifth Friday Research Poster Session,
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An Algorithm for the Discovery of Arbitrary
Length Ordinal Association - the 2006 International Conference on Data
Mining (DMIN06),
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Incremental Horizontal Fragmentation
in Object Oriented Databases Using Clustering Techniques, Zilele Academice Clujene,
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Clustering Techniques for Adaptive
Horizontal Fragmentation in Object Oriented Databases, ICTAMI - International Conference on
Theory and Applications in Mathematics and Informatics, Alba-Iulia, Romania,
15-18 September 2005.
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A New Core-Based Method For
Hierarchical Incremental Clustering,
SYNASC 2005 - 7th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms
for Scientific Computing
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Semi-supervised learning techniques in object
oriented database fragmentation, Zilele Academice Clujene,
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Determining the Optimal Fragmentation Order in
an Object Oriented Environment (in Romanian, Determinarea
ordinii optimale de fragmentare intr-un mediu orientat obiect), Simpozionul National Didactica Matematicii,
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Hierarchical AI Clustering for Horizontal
Object Fragmentation, International Conference on Computers
and Communications ICCC 2004, Baile Felix Spa-Oradea, Romania, May 2004.
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A New Approach for Optimal Fragmentation Order
in Distributed Object Oriented Databases, 5th Joint Conference on Mathematics
and Computer Science, Debrecen, Hungary, June 2004.
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AI Clustering Techniques: a New Approach to
Object Oriented Database Fragmentation, 8th IEEE International Conference on
Intelligent Engineering Systems,
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AI
Clustering Techniques: A New Object Oriented Database Fragmentation, 4th International Conference on
Applied Mathematics, North University of Baia Mare, Romania, September 2004.
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A Data Mining Task - Finding Association Rules,
Zilele Academice Clujene,
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Advanced Features in JDBC (Java Database
Connectivity) Technology, Zilele Academice Clujene,
§ Active
Server Pages - a Solution for Server-side Development in Client-Server
Web-based Applications, 3rd Advanced Educational Technologies
Workshop, Tβrgu-Mureş, Romania, March 2001.
Professional Service
International Conference Program
Committee Participation
§ The 4th International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the
Information Society (PAIS) 2011, Uppsala, Sweden, March 25, 2011,
collocated with EDBT / ICDT 2011.
§ The 22nd Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
Conference (MAICS 2011), held at University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA,
April 16-17, 2011.
§ The Second International Symposium on Data, Privacy, & E-Commerce
(ISDPE-2010), Buffalo/Niagara Falls, September 13-14, 2010.
§ The 2010 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN10), Las Vegas, USA, July 12-15,
2010.
§ The 3rd International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the
Information Society (PAIS) 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 22, 2010,
collocated with EDBT / ICDT 2010.
§ The 2009 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN09), Las Vegas, USA, July 13-16,
2009.
§ The 13th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and
Information Systems (ADBIS) 2009, Riga, Latvia, September 7-10,
2009.
§ The 2nd International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the
Information Society (PAIS) 2009, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, March
22, 2009, collocated with EDBT / ICDT 2009.
§ The 12th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and
Information Systems (ADBIS) 2008, Pori, Finland, September 5-9,
2008.
§ The 2008 International Conference on
§ The 1st International
Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS) 2008, Nantes, France, March 29, 2008, collocated with EDBT 2008.
§ The
2007 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN07), Las Vegas, USA, 26-29
June 2007.
International Conference Reviews
§ External reviewer for The
2008 IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for
Pervasive Applications (TSP-08), held in conjunction with The 2008 IEEE/IFIP International Conference
on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-08), December 17-20, 2008.
International Journals Reviews
§ The
Elsevier Information Sciences, 2009.
§ The
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, 2009.
§ The
Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology (ROMJIST), 2009.
§ Acta
Universitatis Sapientiae, The International Scientific Journal of Sapientia
Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj - Targu Mures - M.Ciuc, Romania,
2009.
§ The Special
Issue on
Member of the Master of Science in
Computer Science Committee,
College of Informatics, Northern Kentucky University, since Summer 2009.
Member
of the team responsible for developing
and maintaining the Computer Science departmental website, College of
Informatics, Northern Kentucky University, since Spring 2009.
Library
contact person
for the Computer Science Department, Northern Kentucky University, since Fall
2008.
Member
of the Computer Science Department Chair Search Committee, Northern
Kentucky University, Fall 2008.
Coach (with Dr. M. Doyle) for
the two NKU teams that participated in the ACM International Programming
Competition, November, 2008 (hosted by University of Kentucky).
Coach (with Dr. M. Doyle) for
the three NKU teams that participated in the ACM International Programming
Competition, October, 2009 (hosted by University of Kentucky).
Judge at the 2009, 2008, and 2007 ACM
Mid-Central USA Programming Contest (hosted by University of Kentucky).
Supervising License Thesis - 2001-present; some of them
are listed below:
§ Web Mining
§ Cluster Analysis
§ Data Mining with ODM
§ Data Warehouses and OLAP in MSSQL
Server
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Multidimensional
Databases. OLAP
§ Indexing in Relational Database
Management Systems
§ Security Aspects in Database
Management Systems
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Concurrency
Control in Databases
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Relational
Operators Implementation and Query Optimization in Relational Databases
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.NET
Applications and Services Publishing Using XML
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Computer
Animation Using OpenGL and CG
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3D
Computer Graphics with DirectX
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Wireless
Application Protocol Technology
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Web
Client/Server Applications
Database administration for the
computer science department Oracle database server 2001-2007 (Faculty of
Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University).
Member in the student admission
committees for the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Responsible for developing the class
schedules for the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University 2001-2004.