Le Gruenwald

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Database Management, Data Mining, Information Privacy and Security.

BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Le Gruenwald is a David W. Franke Professor of the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma and a Program Director of the Information Integration and Informatics cluster, the Information Privacy and Security cross-cutting area and the Cyber Trust program at National Science Foundation. She received her PhD degree in computer science from Southern Methodist University in 1990. Prior to joining OU, She worked for White River Technologies as a Software Engineer, Southern Methodist University as a faculty member in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, and NEC America, Advanced Switching Laboratory as a Member of the Technical Staff in the Database Management Group. Dr. Gruenwald's major research interests include Mobile and Sensor Databases, Data Security, Privacy and Confidentiality, Stream Data Management, Data Mining, Real-Time Distributed Databases, Autonomic Data Management, Multimedia Databases and Web Databases. She has published more than one hundred technical papers in books, journals, and conference proceedings.

AWARDS, HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Distinguished Alumnus Honor, the 40th Anniversary of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, 2007;

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Information Security, Knowledge and Information Systems journal, and International Journal of Information Technology and Database Systems;

Technical Program Co-Chair, 2010 International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing;

Steering Committee Member, 2010 ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access;

Workshops Co-Chair, 2010 ACM International Conference on Mobile Data Management; NSF Cognizant Program Director, 2008 Workshop on Data and Application Security;

Area Editor of Sensor Networks, Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2008; Co-Editor, 2008 special issue on Stream Data Management for IEEE Internet Computing;

Co-Chair, 2007 Workshop on Text Data Mining and Management;

Co-Chair, 2006 NSF Working Group on Data Confidentiality; Co-Chair, 2006 International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems;

Registration Co-Chair, 2006 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, 2006;

Co-Organizer, 2006 Dagstuhl Seminar on Scalable Data Management for Evolving Networks;

Co-Chair, 2004 International Workshop on Knowledge, Ontology, Meta data, Meaning, Matters;

Chair, 2000 ACM SIGMOD Undergraduate Scholarship Committee.

SELECTED PROJECTS
NSF, “A Power-Aware Technique to Manage Real-Time Database Transactions in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,” Aug 2003-July 2010.

NASA, “Estimating Missing Data in Sensor Network Databases Using Data Mining to Support Space Data Analysis,” 2004-2010.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Le Gruenwald, Hanqing Yang, Md. Shiblee Sadik, and Rahul Shukla, "Using Data Mining to Handle Missing Data in Multi-Hop Sensor Network Applications," ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, June 2010.

Frank Olken and Le Gruenwald, “Data Stream Management: Aggregation, Classification, Modeling and Operator Replacement,” IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 12, No. 6, November/December 2008.

Prasanna Padnabhan, Le Gruenwald, Anita Vallur, and Mohamed Atiquzzaman, “A Survey of Data Replication Techniques for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Databases,” Journal of Very Large Data Bases, Vol. 17, Issue 5, August 2008.

Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald and Weiguo Liu,“A Successive Decision Tree Approach to Mining Remotely Sensed Image Data,” Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Challenges and Realities with Real World Data (Chapter 6), Xingquan Zhu and Ian Davidson (Ed.), Idea Group Publishing, Inc., Feb 2007.

Le Gruenwald, Shankar M. Banik, and Chuo N. Lau, “Managing Real-Time Database Transactions in Mobile Ad- hoc Networks,” Distributed and Parallel Databases, Vol 22, No. 1, 2007.