Computer Science Department

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Khanh Vu

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Central Florida

University of Central Florida

Computer Science Department
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
email: khanh@cs.ucf.edu

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Research Interests:

• Information Retrieval
1. Fast Dimensionality-Reduction Approximation (SIGMOD 2006, extended discussion)
2. Similarity Search in the Presence of Translation, Scaling, and Inverse Scaling (current project)
3. Embedding Arbitrary L_P norms into normed space L₂ (current project)
• Multimedia Database Systems
• Databases
• Multimedia Computing
• Image Processing
• Video Multicast

Current and recent courses taught:

• Transaction Processing
• Advanced Database Systems
• Database Management Systems
• Principles of Database Systems
• Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis
• Discrete Math for Computer Science
• Computer Systems
• Social Issues in Computing

Papers

• Publications

Book Project

• Application of High-Dimensional Geometry to Similarity Search Problems (Preface, Table of Contents)

Misc.

· Favorite recent reading: The Elegant Universe: Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings. It’s not science fiction, it’s string theory.

· Frequently visited websites: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/, http://www.pbs.org/science/, http://www.pbs.org/science/science_physics.html