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Seokki Lee, Ph.D. Student (Alumnus)

I have a master in Computer Science and Engineering from Hanyang University in 2009 and Engineering Management from California State University Northridge in 2014. I joined the IIT DBGroup from 2014 Fall after several years of work experience. I joined University of Cincinnati in Fall 2020 as an Assistant Professor. You can find my new homepage here and my research group's webpage here

Awards

  • IIT Dissertation Fellowship (2019)
  • IEEE ICDE Travel Grant (2017)

Teaching

I have been TA for the following courses:
  • 2019 Spring: CS525 - Advanced Database Organization
  • 2017 Fall: CS525 - Advanced Database Organization
  • 2017 Spring: CS525 - Advanced Database Organization
  • 2016 Spring: CS520 - Data Integration, Warehousing, and Provenance

Research Projects

My main research interests are Databases, Data Exchange and Integration, and Data Provenance. I have been involved in the following research projects:
  • GProM - A database-independent middleware for computing the provenance of queries, updates, and transactions
  • PUGS - PUGS is a unified framework for capturing why and why-not provenance of Datalog queries with negation and for automatic generation of concise provenance summaries.
  • Vagabond - Automatic generation of explanations for data exchange errors.

Publications

  1. Solving Why Not Questions for Aggregate Constraints through Query Repair
    Shatha Algarni, Boris Glavic, Seokki Lee and Adriane Chapman
    TaPP (2024).
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  2. Hybrid Query and Instance Explanations and Repairs
    Seokki Lee, Boris Glavic, Adriane Chapman and Bertram Ludäscher
    Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, WWW 2023, Austin, TX, USA, 30 April 2023 - 4 May 2023 (2023), pp. 1559–1562.
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  3. Debugging Missing Answers for Spark Queries over Nested Data with Breadcrumb
    Ralf Diestelkämper, Seokki Lee, Melanie Herschel and Boris Glavic
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (Demonstration Track). 14, 12 (2021) , 2731–2734.
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  4. To not miss the forest for the trees - A holistic approach for explaining missing answers over nested data
    Ralf Diestelkämper, Seokki Lee, Melanie Herschel and Boris Glavic
    Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Management of Data (2021), pp. 405–417.
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  5. Approximate Summaries for Why and Why-not Provenance
    Seokki Lee, Bertram Ludäscher and Boris Glavic
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 13, 6 (2020) , 912–924.
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  6. Why and Why-Not Provenance for Queries with Negation
    Seokki Lee
    Illinois Institute of Technology.
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  7. PUG: a framework and practical implementation for why and why-not provenance
    Seokki Lee, Bertram Ludäscher and Boris Glavic
    The VLDB Journal. 28, 1 (Aug. 2019) , 47—71.
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  8. Query-based Why-not Explanations for Nested Data
    Ralf Diestelkämper, Boris Glavic, Melanie Herschel and Seokki Lee
    Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (2019).
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  9. Provenance Summaries for Answers and Non-Answers
    Seokki Lee, Bertram Ludäscher and Boris Glavic
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (Demonstration Track). 11, 12 (2018) , 1954–1957.
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  10. GProM - A Swiss Army Knife for Your Provenance Needs
    Bahareh Arab, Su Feng, Boris Glavic, Seokki Lee, Xing Niu and Qitian Zeng
    IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. 41, 1 (2018) , 51–62.
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  11. Debugging Transactions and Tracking their Provenance with Reenactment
    Xing Niu, Boris Glavic, Seokki Lee, Bahareh Arab, Dieter Gawlick, Zhen Hua Liu, Vasudha Krishnaswamy, Su Feng and Xun Zou
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (Demonstration Track). 10, 12 (2017) , 1857–1860.
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  12. A SQL-Middleware Unifying Why and Why-Not Provenance for First-Order Queries
    Seokki Lee, Sven Köhler, Bertram Ludäscher and Boris Glavic
    Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (2017), pp. 485–496.
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  13. Adaptive Schema Databases
    William Spoth, Bahareh Arab, Eric S. Chan, Dieter Gawlick, Adel Ghoneimy, Boris Glavic, Beda Hammerschmidt, Oliver Kennedy, Seokki Lee, Zhen Hua Liu, Xing Niu and Ying Yang
    Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems (2017).
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  14. Integrating Approximate Summarization with Provenance Capture
    Seokki Lee, Xing Niu, Bertram Ludäscher and Boris Glavic
    Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (2017).
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  15. Efficiently Computing Provenance Graphs for Queries with Negation
    Seokki Lee, Sven Köhler, Bertram Ludäscher and Boris Glavic
    Technical Report #UIC/CS-DB-2016-03
    Illinois Institute of Technology.
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  16. Implementing Unified Why- and Why-Not Provenance Through Games
    Seokki Lee, Sven Köhler, Bertram Ludäscher and Boris Glavic
    Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (Poster) (2016).
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  17. Automatic Generation and Ranking of Explanations for Mapping Errors
    Seokki Lee, Zhen Wang, Boris Glavic and Renée J. Miller
    Technical Report #UIC/CS-DB-2015-01
    Illinois Institute of Technology.
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  18. An Efficient Implementation of Game Provenance in DBMS
    Seokki Lee, Yuchen Tang, Sven Köhler, Bertram Ludäscher and Boris Glavic
    Technical Report #UIC/CS-DB-2015-02
    Illinois Institute of Technology.
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