I was born in the beautiful city of Tehran, Iran. I spend most of my teenage life going to the historic Alborz High School, I finished my B.Sc. in Computer Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology. Then after a short time working for IPSI-Fraunhofer in Darmstadt, Germany, I moved to University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and got my M.Sc. from the Computer Science Department, as a member of the Database and Information Systems Lab. Following my advisor, I moved to University of Wisconsin, Madison, where I am now a Phd Candidate on leave. In 2009, I joined Oracle's Server Technology Research Group to work on XAP, a novel XML Application Platform

• PhD Candidate, Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• M.S. Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• BSc., Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology

• Semantic Integration and Data Integration
• Management and Querying Data in Structured (RDBMS), Semi-structured (Web) and Unstructured (Text) Data Sources

• Kite: Efficient keyword search across multiple heterogeneous databases
• Kite*: Scalable algorithm for keyword search across distributed and heterogeneous databases
• mSeer: Designing schemas for interoperability
• eTuner: Optimizing and tuning schema matching software
• ER2: Toward entity retrieval and entity disambiguation over structured and text data
• MySQLXplorer: Enabling multi-table and multi-column keyword search in MySQL applications
• HeteroClass: A framework for effective classification from heterogeneous databases
• Estimating rates of rare events for contextual advertising in large scale Web applications

2008
• Xiaoyong Chai, Mayssam Sayyadian, AnHai Doan, Arnon Rosenthal, Len Seligman, Analyzing and Revising Mediated Schemas to Improve Their Matchability, VLDB-08.

2007
• Mayssam Sayyadian, Hieu LeKhac, AnHai Doan, Luis Gravano, Efficient Keyword Search across Heterogeneous Relational Databases, ICDE-07. (ICDE07 Talk - Extended Slides)
• Deepak Agarwal, Andrei Z. Broder, Deepayan Chakrabarti, Dejan Diklic, Vanja Josifovski, Mayssam Sayyadian, Estimating Rates of Rare Events at Multiple Resolutions, KDD-07. (KDD07 Talk - Video: Deepayan's talk at KDD07)
• Yoonkyong Lee, Mayssam Sayyadian, AnHai Doan, Arnon Rosenthal, eTuner: Tuning Schema Matching Software Using Synthetic Scenarios, VLDB Journal Special Issue, Best Papers of VLDB-05. September, 2006.

2006
• AnHai Doan, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Fei Chen, Pedro DeRose, Yoonkyong Lee, Robert McCann, Mayssam Sayyadian, Warren Shen, Community Information Management, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin - Special Issue on Probabilistic Databases, 29(1) 2006.


2005
• Mayssam Sayyadian, Yoonkyong Lee, AnHai Doan, Arnon Rosenthal, Tuning Schema Matching Software using Synthetic Scenarios, 31st International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB'05), Trondheim, Norway, 2005. (slides - poster )

2004
• Mayssam Sayyadian, Azadeh Shakery, AnHai Doan, and ChengXiang Zhai, Toward Entity Retrieval over Structured and Text Data, SIGIR's Workshop on the Integration of Information Retrieval and Databases (WIRD'04), Sheffield, 2004. (slides)

2003
• J. Habibi, M. Ahmadi, A. Nouri, M. Sayyadian, and M. M. Nevissi, "Implementing Heterogeneous Agents in Dynamic Environments, a Case Study in RoboCupRescue". International Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, Germany. 2003: 95-104.
• M. Sayyadian, "Study and Evaluation of Multimedia Descriptors according to MPEG-7 for Semantic Modeling and its applications in Multimedia Databases", B.Sc. Thesis, 2003

2002
• M. Ahmadi, M. Sayyadian, J. Habibi, "A Learning Method for Evaluating Messages in Multi-agent systems", in Proceedings of the Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies, AAMAS'02 Workshop, Italy, Bologna, 2002.
• M. Ahmadi, M. Sayyadian, H. R. Rabiee, "A Coalition Formation for Task Allocation via Genetic Algorithms", in Proceedings of The First Eurasian Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology (EurAsia-ICT 2002), Springer Verlag.
• J. Habibi, M. Ahmadi, A. Nouri, M. Sayyadian, M. M. Nevisi, "Utilizing Different Multi-agent Methods in RoboCup-Rescue Simulation", in Proceedings of the RoboCup-2002 Symposium, Fukuoka, Japan, 2002.