Boris Glavic
Assoicate Professor
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBoris Glavic is an Associate Professor and researcher with 13 years of experience specializing in databases, data provenance, and data integration, now based in Chicago. He holds a doctorate in computer science from the University of Zurich and progressed through postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto before a faculty career at Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Illinois Chicago. His work bridges theoretical database foundations and applied provenance techniques, making data lineage actionable for integration and reproducibility challenges. Colleagues know him for translating complex research into teachable tools and systems that inform both academia and industry practice. He combines a strong publication and mentorship record with an interest in practical tooling, often focusing on reproducible data workflows that are not obvious from a CV alone.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
2010, Doktorat in Informatik, 2010, Doktorat in Informatik at University of ZurichDiploma, CS, Diploma, CS at RWTH Aachen
German, English
Github Skills (100)
middleware10
database10
mail-client10
guile10
emacs9
elisp9
mappings9
indexer9
maildir9
mu4e8
science8
emacs-lisp8
emacs-lsp8
melpa8
ranking8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
IITDBGroup/gprom
Sep 2013 - Feb 2023
GProM is a middleware that adds support for provenance to database backends.
Contributions:6 releases, 1742 commits, 4 PRs in 9 years 6 months
middlewarebackendsdatabaseprovenance
IITDBGroup/PUG
Jan 2018 - Mar 2022
PUG is a provenance middleware that generates (summarized) explanations for why and why-not provenance questions.
Contributions:14 pushes, 161 branches in 4 years 2 months
explanationspugprovenancewhy-notmiddleware
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