Research Areas

Databases and Data Management

With data playing a key role in decision-making for business, healthcare, transit, and so much more, good data management and databases are integral. Research conducted around databases and data management explores how to better collect, store, organize, retrieve, and use the data that drives decision-making across industries. Researchers in this area explore how to build, design, implement, and evaluate data storage to improve performance, efficiency, security, accessibility, and more.

Research Highlights

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Frances Corry Explores the Afterlives of Digital Platforms

“We think of our daily posts on social media as incidental rather than being an important historical document. But you know, 50 years on, it might look different,” said Frances Corry, an assistant professor in the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship.

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SCI Faculty Recognized for Innovations in International Data Management Community

Dr. Panos Chrysanthis, a professor with the Department of Computer Science, was recognized for his contributions to the data management community during the Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS) 2025.

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Marina Barsky, Teaching Assistant Professor

Marina's main research focus is in algorithms on strings and their applications to big data and biological sequence analysis. She invented new scalable algorithms for building suffix trees, suffix arrays, and for all-against-all approximate substring matching.

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Panos Chrysanthis, Professor

Dr. Chrysanthis' research interests lie within the areas of mobile and pervasive data management, database systems, operating systems and real-time systems.

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Frances Corry, Assistant Professor

Using qualitative methods, Dr. Corry studies long-term data management practices in diverse sociotechnical contexts, including on social media platforms and for AI systems.

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Nicholas Farnan, Teaching Associate Professor

Dr. Farnan has taught courses on algorithms and data structures, as well as programming languages for web applications.

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Alexandros Labrinidis, Professor

Dr. Labrinidis' research focuses on user-centric data management for scalable network-centric applications, including web-databases, data stream management systems, sensor networks, and scientific data management (with an emphasis on big data).

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Michael Lewis, Professor

Dr. Lewis' research focuses on human interaction with intelligent automation.

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Vladimir Zadorozhny, Professor

Dr. Zadorozhny's research interests include information integration and data fusion for notable event detection, complex adaptive systems, wireless and sensor data management, and query optimization in distributed environments.

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