Sourav S Bhowmick is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University and the Director of Centre for Advanced Information Systems (CAIS). He is currently Visiting Associate Professor at the Biological Engineering Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He also holds the position of Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) Fellow in Computation and Systems Biology program (2005-2010). Sourav received his Ph.D. in computer engineering in 2001. His current research interests include tree and graph data management, web data management, data mining, and computation & systems biology. He has published more than 100 papers in major international database and data mining conferences and journals such as VLDB, IEEE ICDE, ACM WWW, ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGKDD, ACM CIKM, ER, PAKDD, IEEE TKDE, ACM CS, Information Systems, and DKE.
Sourav's key research contributions are summarized as follows.
His research team is the first to undertake a systematic study on mining structural evolution of tree-structured data. This work received "Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award" in ACM CIKM 2004. Subsequently, they proposed solutions to a series of novel problems related to mining evolution of tree and graph structured data. Some of these works were published in ACM WWW 2006 and 2007, ACM SIGKDD 2006, ACM CIKM 2005, 2008, VLDB 2009.
His team is the first to build a system called XBLEND that blends XML query processing with visual query formulation to turbo-charge query performance by exploiting the latency offered by visual interfaces. The results of this work were published in ICDE 2006, DASFAA 2007, and ICDE 2009.
His team also developed a system called XANADUE that is the first to detect changes to XML data using relational backends. The research results were first published in DEXA 2004 and subsequently in ACM CIKM 2005, ER 2006, and SIGMOD 2007.
Sourav is serving as a PC member of various database conferences and workshops and reviewer for various database journals. He is also serving as a program chair/co-chair of several international workshops in biological and XML data management. He is a member of the editorial boards of several international journals. Sourav has been tutorial speaker in several international conferences such as ER 2006, APWeb 2008, WAIM 2008, and PAKDD 2009. He has co-authored a book entitled "Web Data Management: A Warehouse Approach" (Springers Verlag, October 2003). Sourav is a member of ACM and an affiliate member of IEEE.