Thanaa M. Ghanem

Adjunct Faculty

Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of St. Thomas - Minnesota
OSS 402
2115 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105, USA

Office: OSS 424
Phone: (651) 962-5374 (Ext. 1)
Email: ghan6402@stthomas.edu

Education

· Ph.D. in Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, December 2007.

· M.S. in Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, August 2005.

· B.S. in Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, 2000.

Teaching

Fall 2012

· CISC 130-02: Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving in Science

· CISC 231: Data Structures using Object-Oriented Design.

Spring 2012

· CISC 130-03: Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving in Science

· CISC 340: Computer Architecture

Spring 2011

· CISC 130-03: Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving in Science

· CISC 340: Computer Architecture

Fall 2010

· CISC 130-04: Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving in Science

· CISC 310: Operating System

Spring 2010

· CISC 130-03: Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving in Science

· CISC 340: Computer Architecture

Fall 2009

· CISC 130-04: Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving in Science

· CISC 310: Operating System

Spring 2009

· CISC 450-01: Database Design I

Publications

· Thanaa M. Ghanem, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Per-Åke Larson, and Walid G. Aref. “Supporting Views in Data Stream Management Systems”. ACM Transaction on Database Systems (ACM TODS): 35(1):1-47, February 2010.

· Thanaa M. Ghanem, Moustafa A. Hammad, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref, and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid. “Incremental Evaluation of Sliding-window Queries over Data Streams”. IEEE Transaction of Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE): 19(1):57-72, January 2007.

· Moustafa A. Hammad, Thanaa M. Ghanem, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. Book chapter on "Data Stream Management Systems and Architectures”. In "Data Stream Processing Techniques in Sensor Networks", published by Springer. Editors Joao Gama and Mohamed M. Gaber, 2007.

· Thanaa M. Ghanem. “Supporting Predicate-window Queries in Data Stream Management Systems”. In Proceedings of the ICDE PhD Workshop, April 2006.

· Thanaa M. Ghanem, Walid G. Aref, and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid. “Exploiting Predicate-window Semantics over Data Streams” SIGMOD Record, 35(1): 3-8, March 2006.

· Thanaa M. Ghanem, Rahul Shah, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref, and Jeffry S. Vitter. “ Bulk Operations for Space-Partitioning Trees”. In Proceedings of the 20thInternational Conference of Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE, March 2004.

· Moustafa A. Hammad, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed H. Ali, Walid G. Aref, Ann C. Catlin, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Mohamed Eltabakh, Mohamed G. Elfeky, Thanaa M. Ghanem, Robert Gwadera, Ihab F. Ilyas, Mirette Marzouk, and Xiaopeng Xiong. “Nile: A Query Processing Engine for Data Streams.” Demonstration in Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE, March 2004.

· Thanaa M. Ghanem and Walid G. Aref. “Databases Deepen the Web”. IEEE Computer, January 2004.

· Walid Aref, Ann Christine Catlin, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Moustafa Hammad, Ihab Ilyas, Mirette Marzouk, and Thanaa M. Ghanem. “Video Query Processing in the VDBMS Testbed for Video Database Research”. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases, ACM – MMDB, 2003.

· Mohamed F. Mokbel, Thanaa M. Ghanem, and Walid G. Aref . “Spatio-Temporal Access Methods”. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 26(2): 40-49, Jun., 2003.

· Mohamed G. Elfeky, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, and Thanaa M. Ghanem. “Quality Assurance of Government Databases”. Demonstration at the 3rd National Conference on Digital Government Research, DG.O, May 2002.