Christopher Jonathan, Ph.D.

Co-Founder, Director

Bio

Christopher Jonathan is the Co-Founder of Lakes. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in 2019, supervised by Prof. Mohamed F. Mokbel. His research interests are in the fields of Databases and Data Management Systems.

B.S. in Computer Science

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
2009 - 2013

M.Eng. in Computer Science

Cornell University
2013 - 2014

Ph.D. in Computer Science

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
2014 - 2019

Publications

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  1. Towards an Extensible Expert-Sourcing Platform
    Christopher Jonathan
  2. Stella: Geotagging Images via Crowdsourcing
    Christopher Jonathan and Mohamed F. Mokbel
    In the ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), November 2018, Seattle, WA
  3. Exploiting Coroutines to Attack the "Killer Nanoseconds"
    Christopher Jonathan, Umar Farooq Minhas, James Hunter, Justin Levandoski, and Gor Nishanov
    In the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  4. Towards a Unified Spatial Crowdsourcing Platform
    Christopher Jonathan and Mohamed F. Mokbel
    In the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Database (SSTD), August 2017, Arlington, VA
  5. A Demonstration of Stella: A Crowdsourcing-based Geotagging Framework
    Christopher Jonathan and Mohamed F. Mokbel
    In the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August 2017, Munich, Germany
  6. Luna: An Adaptive Context-Aware Crowdsourcing Framework
    Christopher Jonathan
    In the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), May 2017, Chicago, IL
  7. HadoopViz: A MapReduce Framework for Extensible Visualization of Big Spatial Data
    Ahmed Eldawy, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Christopher Jonathan
    In the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), May 2016, Helsinki, Finland
  8. GARNET: A Holistic System Approach for Trending Queries in Microblogs
    Christopher Jonathan, Amr Magdy, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Albert Jonathan
    In the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), May 2016, Helsinki, Finland
  9. A Demonstration of HadoopViz: An Extensible MapReduce System for Visualizing Big Spatial Data
    Ahmed Eldawy, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Christopher Jonathan
    In the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), September 2015, Kohala Coast, HI

Experiences

  1. Research Assistant - Data Management Group
    September 2014 - May 2019
    Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Designed and built an extensible and scalable expert-sourcing platform
  2. Research Intern - Microsoft Research Redmond
    May 2017 - August 2017
    Redmond, WA, USA
    Outcome: Exploiting Coroutines to Attack the "Killer Nanoseconds"
  3. Teaching Assistant - University of Minnesota
    September 2014 - May 2018
    Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Courses taught: Practice of Database Systems, Architecture and Implementation of Database Management Systems, Intro to Operating Systems, Intro to Programming in Java
  4. Intern Analyst - Dell
    May 2013 - August 2013
    Eden Prairie, MN, USA