Markus Kirchberg
Singapore
Biography
Markus is an Expert with the Cloud and Security Lab, HP Labs Singapore. His R&D interests include Big Data Management, Data Analytics, Data Provenance, Explorative Data Visualisation, and Privacy & Trust.
Markus joined HP Labs Singapore in late November 2010 and also holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor position with the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Prior to joining HP Labs, Markus worked as Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR in Singapore (2007 -- 2010) and Lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand (2000 -- 2007). His previous R&D interests included Data Caching, Database Programming Languages, Large-scale Distributed Systems, Object-oriented Databases, and Transaction Processing.
Markus received his Ph.D. from Massey University in New Zealand and his Master of Sciences in Computer Science from Clausthal University in Germany.
Research interests
Big Data Management, Data Analytics, Data Provenance, Explorative Data Visualisation, and Privacy & Trust (Accountability and Transparency in the Cloud).
Awards
Best Paper Award
M. Kirchberg, R. K L Ko, B. S. Lee. From Linked Data to Relevant Data -- Time is the Essence. 1st International Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data (USEWOD) held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW).
Publications
Markus has published more than 40 technical papers. For a complete list, please refer to his personal pages http://work.thekirchbergs.info/ 
Recently published papers include:
- S. Hartmann, M. Kirchberg, and S. Link. Design by Example for SQL Table Definitions with Functional Dependencies . The VLDB Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1, Pages 121--144. Springer, 2012.
- C.-H. Suen, M. Kirchberg, B. S. Lee. Efficient Migration of Virtual Machines between Public and Private Cloud . 3rd Int'l Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), IEEE Computer Society Press, Nov 2011.
- O. Q. Zhang, M. Kirchberg, R. K L Ko, B. S. Lee. How To Track Your Data: The Case for Cloud Computing Provenance . 3rd Int'l Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), IEEE Computer Society Press, Nov 2011.
- V. March, Y. Gu, E. Leonardi, G. Goh, M. Kirchberg, B. S. Lee. μCloud: Towards a New Paradigm of Rich Mobile Applications .
8th Int'l Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS),
Procedia Computer Science, Volume 5, Pages 618--624. Elsevier
ScienceDirect, 2011.
- R. K L Ko, P. Jagadpramana, M. Mowbray, S. Pearson, M. Kirchberg, Q. Liang, B. S. Lee. TrustCloud: A Framework for Accountability and Trust in Cloud Computing . 2nd IEEE Int'l Cloud Forum for Practitioners (ICFP), Pages 584--588. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2011.
- M. Kirchberg, R. K L Ko, B. S. Lee. From Linked Data to Relevant Data -- Time is the Essence . Our paper received the Best Paper Award at the 1st Int'l Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data (USEWOD @ WWW 2011).
Professional activities
Current activities include:- [PC Chair] 2nd Int'l Symposium on Trust and Security in Cloud Computing (TSCloud @ IEEE TrustCom 2012), Liverpool, UK;
- [Track Chair (Research)] 2012 Gaming & Social Media Conference , Singapore;
- [Guest Editor] Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (IEEE TSC) on 'Enforcement and Management in Services Computing';
- [Guest Editor] Special Issue of Wiley's Security and Communication Networks (SCN) Journal on 'Trust and Security in Cloud Computing';
- [Associate Editor] Security and Communication Networks (SCN), Wiley;
- [Editorial Board Member] Int'l Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS);
- [Editorial Board Member] Int'l Journal on Advances in Software , IARIA;
- [PC Member] 17th Int'l Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2012), Busan, South Korea;
- [PC Member] 15th International Conference on Network-based Information Systems (NBiS 2012), Melbourne, Australia;
- [PC Member] 3rd Int'l Workshop on Conceptual Modelling of Services (CMS 2012), Florence, Italy;
- [Publicity Chair] 7th Int'l Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2012), Kiel, Germany.
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2nd IEEE International Symposium on Trust and Security in Cloud Computing (IEEE TSCloud 2012 )
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