Dr Tanin's research interests include Spatial Databases and Mobile Data Management. He has graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2001 before joining the University of Melbourne. He is an Associate Editor of ACM TSAS and served as a PC Chair for ACM SIGSPATIAL 2011 and 2012. He was elected to serve as the Treasurer for ACM SIGSPATIAL and served in this role till 2017. Dr Tanin was also recently elected to be the next secretary of the SIG. Dr Tanin is also the co-founder of ACM SIGSPATIAL Australia as well as the founding editor for ACM SIGSPATIAL Special. He has supervised 13 postgraduate students to completion and more than 100 papers in related areas published in top venues such as the VLDB Journal, SIGSPATIAL, etc. He has won more than $2.5M in grants, with many ARC Discovery Project Grants in the last 10 years. For more information, please refer to his personal webpage.
2011-2013: E. Tanin with L. Kulik, J. Bailey, 'Managing private location data in a mobile and networked world: Getting the balance right', ARC Discovery Project Grant, $300K
2010-2011: E. Tanin with L. Kitchen, L. Kulik, S. Howe, D. Appleton, K. Brown, ' Developing options for improving management of marine national parks and sanctuaries', Parks Victoria Collaborative Project Grant, $28K
2008-2011: E. Tanin with R. Kotagiri, L. Kulik, R. Zhang, H. Samet, H.V. Jagadish, 'EPOS: Efficient processing of moving object streams in data management systems', ARC Discovery Project Grant, $590K
2008: E. Tanin with M. Palaniswami, R. Kotagiri, R. Tucker, I. Atkinson, P. Pathirana, C. Leckie, P. Mendis, R. Buyya, M. Duckham, S. Halgamuge, G. Woods, L. Kulik, S. Dey, B.N. Vo, K. Smith-Miles, M. Zukerman, 'BigNet - A distributed wireless sensor network testbed', ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Grant (LIEF), $200K
2007-2008: J. Ellershaw, M. Duckham, A. Kealy, S. Winter, R. Tucker, J. Papandriopoulos, A. Overmars, R. Kotagiri, R. Buyya, L. Kulik, E. Tanin, P. Mendis, H. Malano, D. Smith, 'Sensor Network Student Laboratory and Research Facility', A. E. Rowden White Foundation Grant, University of Melbourne, $100K
2006-2007: E. Tanin, 'P2P massively multiplayer online games', Project Leader, NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory
2006: E. Tanin with L. Kulik, M. Palaniswami, R. Kotagiri, 'Mobile and Sensor Computing Technologies Laboratory', Large Infrastructure Grant, University of Melbourne, $68K
2006: E. Tanin, ' Utilizing spatial information in sensor networks for efficient data collection', Early Career Researcher Grant, University of Melbourne, $25K
2005: E. Tanin with J. Bailey, A. Harwood, R. Kotagiri, L. Kulik, C. Leckie, U. Roehm, B. Scholz, S. Sel
Awards
Education and training
PhD,
University of Maryland 2001
MSc,
University of Maryland 1998
MSc,
Bilkent University 1995
BSc,
Bilkent University 1993
Awards and honors
Excellence in Research Award, Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne,
2006
Graduate Research Assistantship, University of Maryland at College Park, USA,
2001
Postgraduate Fellowship for Graduate Studies in USA, Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Institute (TUBITAK),
1995
Postgraduate Fellowship for Graduate Studies in USA, Turkish Ministry of Education,
1994
Dr Tanin's research interests include Spatial Databases and Mobile Data Management. He has graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2001 before joining the University of Melbourne. He is an Associate Editor of ACM TSAS and served as a PC Chair for ACM SIGSPATIAL 2011 and 2012. He was elected to serve as the Treasurer for ACM SIGSPATIAL and served in this role till 2017. Dr Tanin was also recently elected to be the next secretary of the SIG. Dr Tanin is also the co-founder of ACM SIGSPATIAL Australia as well as the founding editor for ACM SIGSPATIAL Special. He has supervised 13 postgraduate students to completion and more than 100 papers in related areas published in top venues such as the VLDB Journal, SIGSPATIAL, etc. He has won more than $2.5M in grants, with many ARC Discovery Project Grants in the last 10 years.