Florin Rusu
Scholar

Florin Rusu

Google Scholar ID: 8PfpzuEAAAAJ
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC Merced
DatabasesApproximate Query ProcessingScalable Machine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
4,423
 
H-index
16
 
i10-index
26
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
57
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Recipient of DOE Early Career Award (2014) and Hellman Faculty Fellowship (2013).
  • Presented 3 papers at SIGMOD 2024 on suboptimal query plan classification, approximate sketches, and query optimization without cardinality estimation.
  • Supervised Asoke Datta’s Ph.D. dissertation (2024) on cardinality estimation impact; Asoke joined Google.
  • Supervised Yesdaulet Izenov’s Ph.D. dissertation (2023) on sketch-based query optimization; Yesdaulet joined Nazarbayev University faculty.
  • Published a technical report on spanning tree-based query plan enumeration (2023).
  • Serves on program committees of SIGMOD 2025 and VLDB 2025.