george fletcher :: teaching & training

Data Modeling and Databases, BSc level. Fall '09, Fall '10, Fall '11.
Database Technology: managing big data, database system internals, MSc level. Spring '10, Spring '11.
Web Technology: linked open data & dynamic web applications, BSc level. Spring '10, Spring '11.
Data Modeling and Mining, BSc level. Fall '09.
Introduction to Database Systems, BSc level. Spring '09, Fall '07.
Contemporary Data Management Problems, MSc level. Spring '08.
Social Semantic Data Management, MSc level. Fall '08
C Programming Language for Engineers, BSc level. Spring '09, Fall '08.
Data Structures, BSc level. Summer '02, '03, and '04.
Fundamentals of Computing Theory, BSc level. Spring '04, '05, and '06.
Database Concepts, BSc level. Fall '05.
Advanced Database Concepts, MSc level. Fall '03.
Discrete Structures, BSc level. Spring '02 and '03.
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, BSc level. Fall '01 and '02.

Postdoc (co)advisor
- dr. Wauter Bosma, 2011. CoDaK: co-evolving document collections and knowledge structures (funded by Agentschap NL).
PhD thesis advisor
- Yongming Luo, 2011-current. SeeQR: structural indexing and efficient query processing on massive RDF data sets (funded by NWO).
MSc thesis advisor
- John Roijackers, current.
- Jelle Hellings, 2011. Bisimulation partitioning and partition maintenance on very large directed acyclic graphs.
- Melle Boersma, 2011. A study of nested-relational joins in mediator-based distributed environments.
- Wouter Haffmans, 2011. A study of efficient RDFS entailment in external memory.
- Juston Morgan, 2010. Visual language for exploring massive RDF data sets.
MSc thesis committee member
- 2011: Florian van der Wielen, Cosmina Niculae, Dennis Schunselaar, Danny van Heumen, David Piessens, Simon Sasburg.
- 2010: Feng Feng, Joos Buijs.
REU/BSc advisor
- Peter Beck, 2008. Scalable indexing of RDF graphs.

If you are a student looking for an interesting thesis problem, I have a list of possible projects.

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