Elena Demidova – M.Sc. Dipl.-Inf. (FH)

Elena Demidova
M.Sc. Dipl.-Inf. (FH)
Studies
L3S Research Center
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06/2006- now Ph.D. studies, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.
Thesis: “Usability and Expressiveness in Database Keyword Search: Bridging the Gap”.
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M.Sc. in Information Engineering, University of Osnabrück, Germany and University
of Twente, the Netherlands, German grade: 1.6 (very good).
Master’s thesis: “Resource discovery in distributed environment - RDF integration in P2P
network”.
Computer Science Engineer (Dipl.-Inf. (FH)), Osnabrück University of Applied
Science, German grade: 1.58 (very good, in the top 30%).
Diploma thesis: “Analysis and integration of a memory-based database system in dataintensive
functions of the client server system HYDRA to reduce reply times”.
Teacher for General Technical Disciplines, A.I. Herzen State Pedagogical University,
St. Petersburg, Russia.
Professional Experience
Researcher, L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.
Research projects: ARCOMEM, LivingKnowledge, OKKAM, TENCOMPETENCE.
Teaching experience: Lecture “Foundations of Information Retrieval”; Lab “Object and
Agent Oriented Programming”; Supervision of bachelor and master theses.
Student/research assistant, University of Osnabrück, Germany.
CASHMERE-int project
Internship, MPDV Mikrolab GmbH, Mosbach, Germany.
Development of software for production data acquisition (C++, Delphi, SQLite).
Student assistant, Osnabrück University of Applied Science, Germany.
Development of software for mathematical analysis (Java).
Languages
Russian Native language German Fluent in speech and writing
English Fluent in speech and writing Spanish Basic knowledge
Selected Courses
01/2011 Leadership skills, Leibniz Universität Hannover.
09/2009 Information Retrieval, ESSIR 2009 - European Summer School in Information
Retrieval, Padua, Italy.
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09/2007 Databases, EDBT Summer School on Database Technologies for Novel Applications,
Bolzano, Italy.
Programming
Languages
Database
Management
Operating
Systems
Computer Skills
Java, C/C++, Delphi, HTML, XML, SQL, SPARQL. Academic experience: VHDL,
Prolog.
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite. Academic experience: Informix, Oracle
Windows (9x, XP), Linux, Unix.
Publications
Journals
Elena Demidova, Xuan Zhou, and Wolfgang Nejdl. A probabilistic scheme for
keyword-based incremental query construction. IEEE Trans. on Knowl. and Data
Eng., 24(3):426–439, March 2012.
Ivana Marenzi, Elena Demidova, Wolfgang Nejdl, Daniel Olmedilla, and Sergej Zerr.
Social software for lifelong competence development: Challenges and infrastructure.
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 3(S1):18–23,
2008.
Conferences
Elena Demidova, Peter Fankhauser, Xuan Zhou, and Wolfgang Nejdl. Divq:
Diversification for keyword search over structured databases. In Proceedings of the
33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 19-23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland., 2010.
Elena Demidova, Philipp Kärger, Daniel Olmedilla, Stefaan Ternier, Erik Duval,
Michele Dicerto, Carlos Mendez, and Krassen Stefanov. Services for knowledge
resource sharing and management in an open source infrastructure for lifelong
competence development. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference
on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2007, July 18-20 2007, Niigata, Japan,
2007.
Elena Demidova, Xuan Zhou, and Wolfgang Nejdl. Iq P : Incremental query
construction, a probabilistic approach. In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International
Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010, Long Beach, California, USA, March
1-6, 2010, 2010.
Elena Demidova, Xuan Zhou, and Wolfgang Nejdl. Freeq: An interactive query
interface for freebase. In Proceedings of the WWW 2012, April 16–20, 2012, Lyon,
France., 2012.
Elena Demidova, Xuan Zhou, Irina Oelze, and Wolfgang Nejdl. Evaluating evidences
for keyword query disambiguation in entity centric database search. In Proceedings
of the 21st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
(DEXA 2010), 30 August - 3 September 2010, Bilbao, Spain., 2010.
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Elena Demidova, Xuan Zhou, Gideon Zenz, and Wolfgang Nejdl. Suits: Faceted
user interface for constructing structured queries from keywords. In Proceedings of
the Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 14th International Conference,
DASFAA 2009, Brisbane, Australia, April 21-23, 2009, 2009.
Ivana Marenzi, Elena Demidova, and Wolfgang Nejdl. Learnweb 2.0: Integrating
social software for lifelong learning. In Proceedings of the World Conference on
Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Vienna, Austria,
2008, 2008.
Sergej Zerr, Elena Demidova, Daniel Olmedilla, Wolfgang Nejdl, Marianne Winslett,
and Soumyadeb Mitra. Zerber: r-confidential indexing for distributed documents.
In Proceedings of the EDBT 2008, 11th International Conference on Extending
Database Technology, Nantes, France, March 25-29, 2008, 2008.
Sergej Zerr, Stefan Siersdorfer, Johnathon Hare, and Elena Demidova. Privacy-aware
image classification and search. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual International
ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval,
August 2012, Portland, Oregon, 2012.
Workshops
Elena Demidova and Wolfgang Nejdl. Integrating rdf querying capabilities into a
distributed search infrastructure. In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the "Web
Search Technology - from Search to Semantic Search" Workshop, in conjunction
with the 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2006), September 3-7, 2006,
Beijing, China., 2006.
Elena Demidova and Wolfgang Nejdl. Usability and expressiveness in database
keyword search: Bridging the gap. In Proceedings of the VLDB 2009 PhD Workshop.
Co-located with the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
(VLDB 2009). Lyon, France, August 24, 2009, 2009.
Elena Demidova, Irina Oelze, and Peter Fankhauser. Do we mean the same?
disambiguation of extracted keyword queries for database search. In Proceedings
of the First International Workshop on Keyword Search on Structured Data, KEYS
2009, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, June 28, 2009, 2009.
Elena Demidova, Stefaan Ternier, Daniel Olmedilla, Erik Duval, Michele Dicerto,
Krassen Stefanov, and Naiara Sacristan. Integration of heterogeneous information
sources into a knowledge resource management system for lifelong learning. In Proceedings
of the 2nd TenCompetence Workshop, January 11-12, 2007, Manchester,
United Kingdom., 2007.
Ivana Marenzi, Elena Demidova, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Daniel Olmedilla. Social
software for lifelong competence development: Scenario and challenges. In Empowering
Learners for Lifelong Competence Development: pedagogical, organisational
and technological issues. Proceedings of the 4th TENCompetence Open Workshop
Madrid, Spain, April 2008. ISBN 978-90-6813-8474., 2008.
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Sergej Zerr, Elena Demidova, and Sergey Chernov. Ddeskweb2.0: Combining
desktop and social search. In Proceedings of the Desktop Search Workshop, in
conjunction with SIGIR 2010, 23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland., 2010.
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