Relaxing Join and Selection Queries. - Nick Koudas; Chen Li 001; Anthony K. H. Tung; Rares Vernica (VLDB, 2006)

Entity categorization over large document collections. - Venkatesh Ganti; Arnd Christian König; Rares Vernica (KDD, 2008)

SEPIA: estimating selectivities of approximate string predicates in large Databases. - Liang Jin; Chen Li 001; Rares Vernica (VLDB J., 2008)

Efficient top-k algorithms for fuzzy search in string collections. - Rares Vernica; Chen Li 001 (KEYS, 2009)

Efficient parallel set-similarity joins using MapReduce. - Rares Vernica; Michael J. Carey 001; Chen Li 001 (SIGMOD Conference, 2010)

Hyracks: A flexible and extensible foundation for data-intensive computing. - Vinayak R. Borkar; Michael J. Carey 001; Raman Grover; Nicola Onose; Rares Vernica (ICDE, 2011)

Adaptive Processing of User-Defined Aggregates in Jaql. - Andrey Balmin; Vuk Ercegovac; Rares Vernica; Kevin S. Beyer (IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2011)

ASTERIX: towards a scalable, semistructured data platform for evolving-world models. - Alexander Behm; Vinayak R. Borkar; Michael J. Carey 001; Raman Grover; Chen Li 001; Nicola Onose; Rares Vernica; Alin Deutsch; Yannis Papakonstantinou; Vassilis J. Tsotras (Distributed Parallel Databases, 2011)

Adaptive MapReduce using situation-aware mappers. - Rares Vernica; Andrey Balmin; Kevin S. Beyer; Vuk Ercegovac (EDBT, 2012)

Speeding Up Chemical Searches Using the Inverted Index: The Convergence of Chemoinformatics and Text Search Methods. - Ramzi Nasr; Rares Vernica; Chen Li 001; Pierre Baldi (J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2012)

ASTERIX: An Open Source System for "Big Data" Management and Analysis. - Sattam Alsubaiee; Yasser Altowim; Hotham Altwaijry; Alexander Behm; Vinayak R. Borkar; Yingyi Bu; Michael J. Carey 001; Raman Grover; Zachary Heilbron; Young-Seok Kim; Chen Li 001; Nicola Onose; et al. (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2012)

CIRCUMFLEX: a scheduling optimizer for MapReduce workloads with shared scans. - Joel L. Wolf; Andrey Balmin; Deepak Rajan; Kirsten Hildrum; Rohit Khandekar; Sujay S. Parekh; Kun-Lung Wu; Rares Vernica (ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., 2012)

On the optimization of schedules for MapReduce workloads in the presence of shared scans. - Joel L. Wolf; Andrey Balmin; Deepak Rajan; Kirsten Hildrum; Rohit Khandekar; Sujay S. Parekh; Kun-Lung Wu; Rares Vernica (VLDB J., 2012)

Cloud based multimedia analytic platform. - Peng Wu; Rares Vernica; Qian Lin 001 (ACM Multimedia, 2013)

AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS. - Sattam Alsubaiee; Yasser Altowim; Hotham Altwaijry; Alexander Behm; Vinayak R. Borkar; Yingyi Bu; Michael J. Carey 001; Inci Cetindil; Madhusudan Cheelangi; Khurram Faraaz; Eugenia Gabrielova; Raman Grover; et al. (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2014)

AERO: An Extensible Framework for Adaptive Web Layout Synthesis. - Rares Vernica; Niranjan Damera Venkata (DocEng, 2015)

To print or not to print: hybrid learning with METIS learning platform. - Joshua M. Hailpern; Rares Vernica; Molly Bullock; Udi Chatow; Jian Fan; Georgia Koutrika; Jerry Liu; Lei Liu; Steven J. Simske; Shanchan Wu (EICS, 2015)

METIS: A Multi-faceted Hybrid Book Learning Platform. - Lei Liu; Rares Vernica; Tamir Hassan; Niranjan Damera Venkata; Yang Lei; Jian Fan; Jerry Liu; Steven J. Simske; Shanchan Wu (DocEng, 2016)

Supporting Similarity Queries in Apache AsterixDB. - Taewoo Kim 001; Wenhai Li; Alexander Behm; Inci Cetindil; Rares Vernica; Vinayak R. Borkar; Michael J. Carey 001; Chen Li 001 (EDBT, 2018)

A Big Data Platform for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Data with an Application on Image-Based Sensor Quality Control. - Yiming Zuo 003; Rares Vernica; Yang Lei; Steven Barcelo; Anita Rogacs (MIPR, 2019)

Using text mining for personalization and recommendation for an enriched hybrid learning experience. - Lei Liu; Rares Vernica; Tamir Hassan; Niranjan Damera Venkata (Comput. Intell., 2019)

Similarity query support in big data management systems. - Taewoo Kim 001; Wenhai Li; Alexander Behm; Inci Cetindil; Rares Vernica; Vinayak R. Borkar; Michael J. Carey 001; Chen Li 001 (Inf. Syst., 2020)