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Michael Shekelyan
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Dr. Michael Shekelyan, Computer Science Researcher

Bio

I was born in Moscow, but I grew up in Hamburg and then later moved to Munich. I studied at the University of Munich, where I worked with Prof. Kriegel's (now Prof. Seidel's) database group. I did my PhD in Italy under the supervision of Prof. Johann Gamper (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) and then went to the UK for postdoctoral research under Prof. Graham Cormode (University of Warwick) and Dr. Grigorios Loukides (King's College London).

Research

My research focuses primarily on algorithms, data structures and summaries to manage very large or sensitive data. The overall goal is to build a full data pipeline that feeds end users with easily interpretable facts which provide novel insights and aid decision making processes. Reducing the data complexity either through sampling or summarisation plays a crucial role to support exploratory interactions with the data that involve a lot of probing, while still providing an intuitive approximation model of the data.

Query Processing

How to find all paths between two network nodes that could be best for some user preference (modelled as multiplicative weights)
Optimality for some linear scalarization : How to compute sums over sub-tables for a very large table with numeric entries, most of which are equal to zero :

Multidimensional Data Summaries

How to build tiny data models that empirically tend to be good at approximate range counting
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DigitHist summary of spatial data
(zoomed in on UK and Germany) : How to build compact data models that are theoretically guaranteed to be good at approximate range counting (not just asymptotically!): How to approximate arbitrary rectangles with a few pre-selected rectangles :

Sampling

How to directly iterate (in ascending order) over the selected positions of a simple random sample
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Python code for sampling iterator :

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