Edmon, Welcome! Thanks for helping to bring us to a new audience, the research community. (They were always there, but we've not been serving them very well.)
Julian On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Edmon Begoli <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Michael, and Apache Calcite PMC/community, > > I am honored and privileged to be a committing member of this project. > > My goals and commitments are to help coordinate the R&D community, > introduce research-related contributions to the project, and promote the > project within the database and data management research community. > > My research interests are in the areas of heterogeneous data management > (most prominently polystores), and in the methods for linking, aligning, > and imputation of heterogenous, discontinuous datasets. > I am a computer scientist with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and joint > faculty with the University of Tennessee, EECS department. I am located in > Knoxville, TN. > > For R&D minded colleagues here, or those interested in the exploration of > concepts being introduced in the R&D settings (conferences, research > portals (e.g. Google Research, etc.), > please feel free to use me as a point of contact and coordinator of these > activities. > > We already have a very good group going with Daniel, Michael, Jesus, > Julian, and Riccardo, and we hope to keep delivering results, and to keep > the community growing. > > Thank you, > Edmon > > > On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Michael Mior <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Apache Calcite's Project Management Committee (PMC) has invited Edmon >> Begoli to become a committer, and we are pleased to announce that he has >> accepted. >> >> Edmon has been working with other members of the PMC to further Calcite >> R&D and has invested significant time and resources into the project. This >> includes taking the lead on a SIGMOD 2018 paper describing Calcite (which >> will be shared once the final version is complete). >> >> Edmon, welcome, thank you for your contributions, and we look forward your >> further interactions with the community! If you wish, please feel free to >> tell us more about yourself and what you are working on. >> >> Michael Mior (on behalf of the Apache Calcite PMC) >>
