John Michael Cieslewicz

Education

Columbia University, New York, NY
[September 2004 - December 2008]
PhD in Computer Science, February 2009.
Research focus was on architecture sensitive databases.
M.S. in Computer Science conferred May 2005. GPA 4.033/4.0

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
[September 2000 - June 2004]
B.S. in Computer Science conferred June 2004. GPA 3.776/4.0.
Minor in Political Science and Honors in International Security Studies.

Research Experience

IBM Research, San Jose, CA
[June 2007 – August 2007]
Research Intern – Almaden Research Center
Conducted research related to improving the performance of MapReduce jobs.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
[May 2006 – August 2006]
Intern – Scientific Data Management Group
Integrated LBL’s FastBit compressed bit map indexing technology with a relational database system. Improved integrated database and information retrieval querying.

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
[May 2005 – August 2005]
Intern – Computer Science Research Institute
Researched database performance on a massively multithreaded super computer architecture.

Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
[June 2004 – September 2004]
Intern – Sandia Institute for Modeling and Simulation
Member of the BioNet Project.
Designed and built a time evolving chemical and biological weapons plume simulation component for use in the BioNet simulation architecture.

Stanford University Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA
[June 2003 – June 2004]
Research Assistant
Member of the STREAM Project, which is researching Data Stream Management Systems.
Migrated the existing system to a multi-threaded implementation designed to utilize multiple processor systems and research the implications of threading for DSMS design.
Explored DSMS cache-aware scheduling algorithms designed to enhance system performance.

Algovision-Luratech, GmbH, Berlin, Germany
[June 2002 – September 2002]
Software Development Intern
Work primarily focused on the JPEG2000 image compression standard.
Wrote JAVA interface for proprietary image compression libraries.

Publications

• SQL/MapReduce: A practical approach to self-describing, polymorphic, and parallelizable user-defined functions E. Friedman, P. Pawlowski, J. Cieslewicz. Proceedings of the 35th VLDB Conference. August 2009.
• Cache-conscious buffering for database operators with state J. Cieslewicz, W. Mee, K.A. Ross. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware. June 2009.
• Optimal splitters for database partitioning with size bounds K.A. Ross and J. Cieslewicz. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Database Theory. March 2009.
• Data Partitoning on Chip Multiprocessors. J. Cieslewicz and K.A. Ross. Proceedings of the 4th DaMoN Workshop, June 2008.
• Using Bitmap Index for Joint Queries on Structured and Text Data. K. Stockinger, J. Cieslewicz, K. Wu, D. Rotem, and A. Shoshani. Annals of Information Systems, 2008. In Press.
• Database Optimizations for Modern Hardware. J. Cieslewicz and K.A. Ross. Proceedings of the IEEE, 96(5), 2008.
• Adaptive Aggregation on Chip Multiprocessors. J. Cieslewicz and K.A. Ross. Proceedings of the 33rd VLDB Conference, September 2007.
• Parallel Buffers for Chip Multiprocesors. J. Cieslewicz, K.A. Ross, and I. Giannakakis. Proceedings of the 3rd DaMoN Workshop, June 2007.
• Realizing Parallelism in Database Operations: Insights from a Massively Multithreaded Architecture. J. Cieslewicz, J. Berry, B. Hendrickson, and K.A. Ross. Proceedings of the 2nd DaMoN Workshop, June 2006. (Best Paper Award)
• Improving Database Performance on Simultaneous Multithreading Processors. J. Zhou, J. Cieslewicz, K.A. Ross, and M. Shah. Proceedings of the 31st VLDB Conference, September 2005.
• Architecture Sensitive Database Design: Examples from the Columbia Group. K.A. Ross, J. Cieslewicz, J. Rao, and J. Zhou. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Volume 28(2): 5-10 (2005).
• STREAM: The Stanford Data Stream Management System. Appearing in Data Stream Management: Processing High-Speed Data Streams, Ed. M. Garofalakis, J. Gehrke, R. Rastogi. Springer-Verlag, 2004.

Teaching Experience

Columbia University Computer Science Department, New York, NY
[September 2007 - December 2007]
Teaching Assistant - Programming and Problem Solving
Built all course programming project infrastructure.

Columbia University Computer Science Department, New York, NY
[January 2007 - May 2007]
Teaching Assistant - High Performance Software for Modern Procesors
Graded student projects and taught one of the weekly lectures.

Columbia University Computer Science Department, New York, NY
[September 2005 - December 2005]
Teaching Assistant - Database Systems (COMS 4111)
Graded student projects, assignments, and exams.
Developed some assignment questions.

Stanford University Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA
[September 2001 – March 2002]
Section Leader - CS106a & CS106b
Taught one discussion session per week to augment the lecture portion of an introductory programming course.
Responsible for grading students’ assignments and exams.

Awards

• Department of Homeland Security Graduate Research Fellow (2005 – 2008)
• Best Paper Award The 2nd DaMoN Workshop, collocated with the ACM/SIGMOD Conference. (June 2006)
• Andrew P. Kosoresow Memorial Award for excellence in teaching and service. Awarded by the Department of Computer Science, Columbia University (2008)
• PhD Service Award for superior contributions to the community life of the Department of Computer Science, Columbia University (2006)
• The 2004 William J. Perry Award Awarded to the Stanford Honors Thesis that Most Exemplifies Interdisciplinary Research in International Security Studies. The thesis title is Attacks and Accidents: Policy to Protect the Power Grid’s Critical Computing and Communication Needs.

Computing and Communication Skills

• Proficient using Windows, Macintosh, and Unix/Linux computing environments
• Programming languages: C, C++, JAVA, C#, SQL, antlr, LaTeX
• Comfortable expressing ideas through writing and oral presentation
• Intermediate German speaking, reading and writing

Professional Associations and Activities

Extra Curricular and Other Information

Hollywood Squares, TV Game Show
[Winter 2001]
Contestant
Appeared in the 2001 Hollywood Squares College Tournament and reached the championship round.