Dina Q Goldin

Note: As of the fall of 2001, Prof. Goldin is at the University of Connecticut. Here is her new homepage.

Dina Goldin (http://www.cs.umb.edu/~dqg) is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Massachusetts in Boston. Her current work is in the (not-so-related) areas of interactive computing and constraint database algebras. General topics of interest are computing paradigms, languages for programming and querying, algorithms, and computer-aided design (CAD).

Here is my weekly schedule for Spring 2001.
Here is my CV (MS Word), and an older HTML version.
Here are my recent papers and invited talks.

Spring 2001 Courses

CS420: Introduction to the Theory of Computation
CS696: Constraint Database Systems
CS498: Honors Thesis Supervision

Contact Information

Address:
Math & Computer Science Department
University of Massachusetts / Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125 Office: S-3-92A
Tel: 617-287-6483
Fax: 617-287-6433
e-mail: dqg@cs.umb.edu

Current Grants

Towards Practical Constraint Query Algebras (NSF Career Grant, May 1998 - April 2002)

Current Activities (Spring 2001)

Director of UMB-CDB, Constraint Database project sponsored by the NSF CAREER grant, supervising 1 Ph.D. and 1 M.S. student;
Faculty supervisor for the RoboCup-2001 soccer simulation contest
Co-chair of the UMB CS Research Support Committee;
Reviewer, CEC'01, IEEE TKDE ('01), VLDB Journal ('01);
Webmaster, Math/CS Dept at U.Mass/Boston [http://www.cs.umb.edu] (since 1998);
Member, UMB Science Dean's Committee on Challenges and Opportunities for the Sciences;
Invited as an observer, IFIP WG 2.2, Rennes France, May 2001;
CSAB/ABET program evaluator, nominated in January 2000;
Participant, NSF IDM workshop (Information & Data Management), Dallas, April 2001;
Member, Information Management Panel of Curricullum 2001 (ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force);
Member, UMB CAS Committee on Majors and Honors (since 1998);
Responsible for the Hebrew Language waiver examinations at UMB.

Courses taught recently (within 5 years)

CS650 Compilers (graduate)
CS632 Database Models (graduate)
CS670 Artificial Intelligence (graduate)
Topics in Databases and Artificial Intelligence (seminar)
Geographic Information Systems (seminar)
Constraint Database Systems (seminar)
CS420 Introduction to Theory of Computing Systems (adv. undergraduate)
CS310 Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms (adv. undergraduate)
CS320 Discrete Structures (undergraduate) Courses and seminars taught recently

Other activities and accomplishments

Faculty supervisor for the 4th Annual Undergraduate Data Analysis Contest (fall 1998), which we won!!
VLDB'99 Program Committee member
NSF Panel member for grant proposal review: Oct. 2000, Feb. 1999
Tutorial Speaker, ECOOP'99, June 1999, Lisbon, Portugal.
Registration Co-ordinator, ACM Strategic Directions Workshop, Cambridge, MA (6/96).
Reviewer, ACM Computing Surveys 1998, SIGGRAPH'93, CP'93, ACM PODS'95, ICDT'97, ACM PODS'97, CP'97, ICDE'99, TCS'00, Information Processing Letters ('00).
Fluent in English, Russian, Hebrew; good knowledge of French; some knowledge of German.

Miscellaneous Links

I am the founding editor of an Acoustic Neuroma Archive, an international informational resource for patients with a benign brain tumor known as Acoustic Neuroma.
Here is the home page of my husband Dima Feinhaus.
Here is my old page from Computer Science department of Brown University, where I received my Ph.D. degree.
My PhD thesis advisor and mentor was Paris C. Kanellakis; he died in Dec.1995 in an airplane crash.
My closest colleague and mentor since has been Peter Wegner.

dqg@cs.umb.edu