Denilson Barbosa is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Science Internship Program in the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta.
His research interests are in web data management, particularly on semistructured data, information extraction and integration, and on text analytics. He was a member of the NSERC Business Intelligence Network.
Note to grad students interested in working with me.
NEW: I'm co-charing the applications track of the The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics
Recent tutorials:
ICDE 2015 Tutorial---Inferencing in Information Extraction: Techniques and Applications
ICDE 2013 Tutorial---Shallow IE for the Knowledge Web
EMC 2013 Summer School on Big Data Tutorial on text analytics
ICWSM 2012 Tutorial on Information Extraction for Social Media Analysis
Publications:
by topic (selected); by year (all); DBLP page (with bibTeX data); ACM author profile.
Service
Honors
Best Paper Award--26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010)
Supervisor of the Best SIGMOD 2012 Undergraduate Research Poster
Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award, 2007
IBM Faculty Award, 2006
Guest speaker at the MITACS MoMiNIS Seminar Series at Dalhousie University
Departmental Teaching Award---2009
Visiting researcher at Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany; July 2014--April 2015.
Visiting Professor (BIT); Database and Information Systems group; Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; Summer 2008;
Visiting faculty at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies since January 2005
Alumnus of the Database Group at the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Alberto Mendelzon
IBM PhD. Fellowship; Summer 2002 -- Fall 2004
