Maria Daltayanni Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco (USF) Department of Computer Science My USF page Photo by Hector Garcia-Molina

Contact

USF Harney Science Center (HR) Room 510A San Francisco, CA 94117

Email mariadal@cs.ucsc.edu mariadal@cs.usfca.edu

Research

• Smart Cheetah: Seamlessly Enabling Declarative Predictive Analytics for Online Advertising , ongoing work
  (joint work with Hazem Elmeleegy, Ali Dasdan)
• Automated Audience Segmentation Using Reputation Signals , KDD 2018 (acceptance rate 19%) - Promotional Video
  (joint work with Ali Dasdan, Luca de Alfaro)
• Reputation Systems in Labor and Advertising Marketplaces, Ph.D. Dissertation, UCSC, 2015
• WorkerRank:Using Employer Implicit Judgements To Infer Worker Reputation, WSDM 2015 (acceptance rate 16.4%)
  (joint work with Luca de Alfaro, Panagiotis Papadimitriou)
• WorkerRank:Employer Implicit Judgements For Worker Reputation, NIPS 2014: Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning
  (joint work with Luca de Alfaro, Panagiotis Papadimitriou)
• Recommending Workers in the Labor Marketplace, WSDM 2014: Data Design for Personalization
  (joint work with Luca de Alfaro)
• On Assigning Implicit Reputation Scores in an Online Labor Marketplace, EDBT 2014
  (joint work with Luca de Alfaro, Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Panayiotis Tsaparas)
• A Fast Interactive Search System for Healthcare Services, SRII Global Conference 2012
  (joint work with Chunye Wang, Ram Akella)

Teaching

• As Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco (USF)
  • Undergrad Courses
    • CS 333 - Introduction to Database Systems
    • CS 451 - Data Mining
    • CS 110 - Introduction to Computer Science I (Python programming)
  • Grad Courses
    • CS 686-02 - Data Mining / Statistical Learning with applications in R
    • CS 686-01 - Database System Principles
    • MSAN 692 - Data Acquisition
• As Teaching Assistant at University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC)
  • CMPS 183 - Hypermedia and the Web
  • CMPS 182 - Introduction to Database Management Systems

Service

• Ambassador of Stanford WiDS 2017 streamed at USF WiDS
• Volunteers Chair in SIGMOD 2016
• PC Member in IEEE IRI 2016-2018, DSHCM 2017-2018
• Reviewer in ICDE 2017 , KDD 2016 , IJCAI 2016 , WWW 2016 , EDBT 2016 , SDM 2016
• Reviewer in ICDE 2012 , CIKM 2011

Experience

• Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco (USF), 2015 - present
  • Department of Computer Science
• Applied Science Intern at Turn Inc, 2014
• Crowdsourced Recommendations for Audience Selection

• Data Engineer Intern at Turn Inc, 2013
• Large-Scale Declarative Predictive Analytics for Online Advertising

• Software Engineer Intern at Greenplum / EMC, 2012
• Query Processing: Search Strategy for Query Optimization

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2010 – 2015
• Dissertation: Reputation Systems in Labor and Advertising Marketplaces
  Supervised by Professor Luca de Alfaro

• M.Sc., Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008 – 2010
• MS Project: Divergent Physical Design Tuning for replicated Databases
  Supervised by Professor Neoklis (Alkis) Polyzotis

• B.Sc., Computer Science, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2004 – 2008
  • Thesis: Data mining: Continuity Based Approach for Clustering
    Supervised by Professor Yannis Ioannidis

Misc

• LinkedIn
• DBLP
• Scholar
• ACM
• Facebook
• Twitter
• During my first two years at UCSC I was member of the Database Group
• My favorite theatrical production was The Acharnians of Aristophanes (Αχαρνείς in Greek).
• I am member of the Greek traditional Dance Group Irini (Eιρήνη in Greek, which means 'Peace').
• In 2002 I participated in the 7th sessions series of the Hellenic Youth Parliament (official page). Abstracts
• Here is Panagiotis's website.