German (Gera) Shegalov

first dot last at acm dot org

Projects

• Tribute to my father Isaac Shegalov.
• OC4J JMS Provider
• The Beauty of RSA (discovered while working on providing SSL support for OC4J JMS)
  
• Exactly-Once Web Service (EOS)
• Phonetic Russian Windows keyboard driver for the German PC keyboard
• Ice Skating (Alpha, Beta)
  
• Public Picasa Albums
  

Professional Activities

• Member of the Demonstrations Program Committee for VLDB 2007, ER 2008.
• Referee for
    Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) (2003),
    Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) (2005, 2007),
    Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) (2005),
    Software: Practice and Experience (SPE) (2005)
• External reviewer for CoopIS 2004, IPDPS 2006, DISC 2007.

Publications

• German Shegalov, Gerhard Weikum: Formal Verification of Web Service
  Interaction Contracts. IEEE SCC, Honolulu, HI, USA, July 2008
•  German Shegalov, German Weikum: Formal Verification of a Transactional
  Interaction Contract. IEEE SOAIS, Honolulu, HI, USA, July 2008
  
• German Shegalov, Gerhard Weikum, Klaus Berberich: Unstoppable Stateful PHP Web Services. WISE 2006: 132-143.
• German Shegalov, Gerhard Weikum: EOS²: Unstoppable Stateful PHP (also: poster). VLDB 2006: 1223-1226.
• David B. Lomet, Roger S. Barga, Mohamed F. Mokbel, German Shegalov, Rui Wang, Yunyue Zhu: Transaction Time Support Inside a Database Engine. ICDE 2006: 35 (also: related slides on another occasion).
• German Shegalov: Integrated Data, Message, and Process Recovery for Failure Masking in Web Services (also: slides), Thesis Defense, Saarland University, August 2005.
• David B. Lomet, Roger S. Barga, Mohamed F. Mokbel, German Shegalov, Rui Wang, Yunyue Zhu: Immortal DB: transaction time support for SQL server. SIGMOD Conference 2005: 939-941.
• Matthias Bender, Steffen Kraus, Florian Kupsch, German Shegalov, Gerhard Weikum, Dirk Werth, Christian Zimmer: Peer-to-Peer-Technologie für unternehmensweites und organisationsübergreifendes Workflow-Management. GI Jahrestagung (2) 2004: 511-516.
• Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet, German Shegalov, Gerhard Weikum: Recovery Guarantees for Internet Applications. ACM Trans. Internet Techn. 4(3): 289-328 (2004).
• German Shegalov, Gerhard Weikum, Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet: EOS: Exactly-Once E-Service Middleware (also: slides). VLDB 2002: 1043-1046.
• German Shegalov: XML-basiertes Workflow-Management für E-Services in heterogenen Umgebungen. BTW Studierenden-Programm 2001: 21-23 (also: related slides on another occasion).
• German Shegalov, Michael Gillmann, Gerhard Weikum: XML-Enabled Workflow Management for e-Services across Heterogeneous Platforms. VLDB J. 10(1): 91-103 (2001).
• Jeanine Weißenfels, Michael Gillmann, Olivier Roth, German Shegalov, Wolfgang Wonner: The Mentor-Lite Prototype: A Light-Weight Workflow Management System. ICDE 2000: 685-686
• Michael Gillmann, Jeanine Weißenfels, German Shegalov, Wolfgang Wonner, Gerhard Weikum: A Goal-driven Auto-Configuration Tool for the Distributed Workflow Management System Mentor-lite. SIGMOD Conference 2000: 595
• German Shegalov, Michael Gillmann, Gerhard Weikum: XML-Enabled Workflow Management for E-Services across Heterogeneous Platforms. TES 2000: 97-115

Education

• Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften (equivalent to PhD in Computer Science), Saarland University, August 2005.

  Thesis: Integrated Data, Message, and Process Recovery for Failure Masking in Web Services
  1^st advisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Weikum
  2^nd advisor: Dr. David Lomet

• Diplom-Informatiker (equivalent to M.S. in Computer Science) (minor subject: Business Administration) with the GPA 1.3 (excellent), Saarland University, Germany, March 2001

  Thesis: Mentor-lite on the Web - XML Edition
  Advisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Weikum

• Vordiplom (equivalent to B.S. in Computer Science), Saarland University, Germany, August 1997

• Secondary School, Lyceum of Physics and Mathematics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, May 1994

Experience

• Jan. 2006 - present: Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle.
• Apr. 2004 - Dec. 2005: Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
• Sep. 2002 - Dec. 2002: Research Intern with the Database Group at Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, USA. Immortal DB, a Transaction Time Database project, including implementation of recoverable tuple versioning and timestamping inside the Microsoft SQL Server (Yukon) Storage Engine.
• Nov. 2001 - May 2002: Major contributor of the sample solutions for the textbook:
  G. Weikum and G.Vossen, Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2001
• Sep. 1998 - Feb. 2001: Research Assistant, Database and Information Systems Research Group, University of Saarland, Germany. Queued transaction support for the distributed workflow management system MENTOR-lite.
• Sep. 1997 - Aug. 1998: System Administrator, Institute of Information Systems, University of Saarland, Germany. Management of Ethernet-LAN and hardware, administration of WinNT servers and workstations, IIS administration.

Awards

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Fellowship (04/2001 - 03/2004) in the context of the graduate studies program "Quality Guarantees for Computer Systems", Saarbrücken, Germany
• First-grade Diploma for a visual computer simulation of the solar system (joint work with Vladimir Zamiatin), National Highschool Conference on computer science under the patronage of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 1994.