Ladan Golshanara
 http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~ladangol/
 ladangol@buffalo.edu
Education
Ph.D. , Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo . 2013-2018 (expected).
Advisor: Jan Chomicki
Research Interests: Data exchange, Temporal databases, Schema mapping, Logic
M.Sc. Computer Engineering-Software, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. 2009- 2011.
Thesis: Application of Swarm Intelligence Algorithms in Distributed Join Query Optimization
B.Sc. Computer Engineering- Software, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran. 2005-2009.
Publications
Golshanara L., Rouhani Rankoohi S.M.T., Shah-Hosseini H., A Multi-colony Ant Algorithm for
Optimizing Join Queries in Distributed Database Systems, Knowledge and Information Systems,
Vol. 39 No. 1 Pg. 175-206, 2014.
Golshanara L., Shamsfard M., An Experiment in Mapping COMON to SUMO, in Proc. of the 8th
Extended Semantic Web Conference ( ESWC), Poster-Session, 2011.
Research Positions
Research Assistant, January 2015-present , Working on temporal databases and data exchange.
Supervised by Jan Chomicki
Teaching Experience
 Instruction
State University of New York at Buffalo: Introduction to Programming Languages (Summer
2014).
Shahid Bahonar University: Foundations of Programming, Advanced Programming, Spring 2013.
Azad University of Kerman: C Programming Language, Database Lab, Fall 2012.
 Teaching Assistantship
State University of New York at Buffalo: Data Integration (Fall 2014); Data Structures in C++
(Fall 2014, Spring 2014 ).
Sharif University of Technology: Advanced Database Systems (Fall 2011).
Shahid Beheshti University: Compiler Design (Fall 2011); Advanced Database Systems (Fall
2010); Software Engineering (Fall 2010).
Visiting Positions
Visiting Researcher, University of California at Santa Cruz, March 2016
Awards and Honors
 Travel award for Computer Research Association (CRA-W) Grad Cohort Workshop, 2015.
 Defended master’s thesis with excellent grade.
 Ranked 1st by GPA among all graduate software engineering students in Shahid Beheshti
University class of 2011.
Memberships
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Member
Professional Service
Vice president, Computer Science and Engineering-Graduate Student Association, University at Buffalo