April 6, 2005

Dr. Chirkova

NC State Computer Scientist Receives NSF Career Award

Dr. Rada Y. Chirkova, assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation, effective August 1, 2005, through approximately July 31, 2010. The award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $489,810 in funding over the next five years. Chirkova will use the funding to support her research project, “Career: Adaptive Automated Design of Stored Derived Data.”

The goal of the project is to develop an extensible framework for designing and using derived data in answering database queries efficiently. The approach consists of developing and evaluating mathematical models and algorithms for designing and using views and indexes for common types of queries on relational and XML data. Chirkova will make the results of the project widely available, including software that she will develop.

Chirkova joined the College of Engineering faculty in 2002 afer receiving her Ph.D. from Stanford University.

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