Office Phone
(765) 494-1997
Research Areas
Database Technologies for Emerging Applications, Spatial/Multimedia/Genomics/Sensor-Based Databases, Data Mining, Scalable Media Servers, GIS.
Key Areas
Assurable Software and Architecture
Notable Experience
Develops database technologies for emerging applications, e.g., spatial, multimedia, genomics, and sensor-based databases, indexing, data mining, scalable media servers and geographic information systems (GIS). Research supported by NSF, DoN, Purdue Research Foundation, CERIAS, Panasonic, and Microsoft Corp.
Notable Awards
NSF CAREER Award [2001]
Purdue University Faculty Scholar [2004]
Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) [2017]
Notable Affiliations
ACM, IEEE
Biography
Walid G. Aref is an associate professor of computer science at Purdue. His research interests are in developing database technologies for emerging applications, e.g., spatial, multimedia, genomics, and sensor-based databases. He is also interested in indexing, data mining, scalable media servers, and geographic information systems (GIS). Professor Aref's research has been supported by NSF, DoN, Purdue Research Foundation, CERIAS, Panasonic, and Microsoft Corp. In 2001, he received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. Professor Aref is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.
