Qin (Christine) Lv Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder 430 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0430 USA Tel:  +1 (303) 492-8821 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2844 Office: Engineering Center ECCR 1B05C Email:

About

Qin Lv is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder. She received a B.E. with honors from the Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University in 2000, an MA and a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University in 2002 and 2006. Her Ph.D. thesis advisor was Professor Kai Li. Lv was a summer intern at Google Inc. (2002) and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Lab (2003). Before joining University of Colorado, she also spent one year in Princeton University as a postdoc, and one year in the Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University as an assistant professor.

Research Interests

Qin Lv's research integrates efficient system design and effective data analysis for the management and exploration of massive data. Her research focuses on search systems, data mining, mobile systems, social networks, and data management. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature and interacts closely with a variety of research domains including environmental research, Earth sciences, renewable and sustainable energy, as well as the information needs in people's daily lives.

For more information, please see the Research and Publications pages.

Teaching

Qin Lv has developed and taught two new courses. One is a gradaute-level advanced topics course on "Systems and Algorithms for Massive Data Applications". The other is "Data Mining", which is offered to both undergraduate and graduate students. These two courses are also offered through the CAETE distance learning program. Before joining University of Colorado, Qin Lv has taught two gradaute-level coures at Stony Brook University (SUNY). She was also the teaching assistant for three undergraduate courses in Princeton University.

For more information, please see the Teaching page.

Professional Activities

• ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS). Technical Program Committee. 2011. 2012. 2013.
• IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom). Technical Program Committee. 2013.
• ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). Technical Program Committee. 2012.
• IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI). Technical Program Committee. 2012.
• IEEE International Workshop on Sensing, Networking, and Computing with Smartphones (PhoneCom). Technical Program Committee. 2012.
• International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS). Technical Program Committee. 2011.
• Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC). Multimedia Services and Applications Symposium. Technical Program Committee. 2011.
• Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing (RMCWiC). Registration Chair. 2012.
• Colorado Celebration of Women in Computing (CCWIC). Registration Chair. 2010.
• International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing & Services: Social Networks and Beyond (MCS). Technical Program Committee. 2010.
• ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Publicity Chair. 2008.
• ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS). Registration Chair. 2005.
• Proposal review panels: National Science Foundation (NSF), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
• Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI). Affiliate. 2010.
• Journal reviewer for IEEE TMC, TC, TPAMI, TIFS, TKDE, TPDS, TSE; ACM TOIT, CCR, CSUR; etc.