Margaret H. Dunham
SMU Database Research Group



The Database Research Group in SMU's Computer Science and Engineering Department is headed by Dr. Margaret H. Dunham. It has been funded by grants from NSF, Texas'
ATP, NEC, DOD, and other agencies. The current areas of interest are Mobile Computing and Data Mining.



Dr. Dunham currently advises the following PhD students:

  • Ayse Yasemin Seydim
  • Ahmad Al Mogren
  • Zhigang Li

    • Dr. Dunham works with the following MS and undergraduate students:

  • Jason Mizher
  • Mark Fontenot
  • Nathaniel Ayewah


    • The following is a partial list of PhD students who have graduated under Dr. Dunham's supervision:

  • Francisco Mariategui: Structured Concurrency Control in Object Oriented Data Bases (1989)
  • Le Gruenwald : Reload in a Main Memory Database Sytem:MARS(1990)
  • Chris Corti: Updating in a Main Memory Database(1992)
  • Priti Mishra: Functions in Object-Oriented Databases(1992)
  • Fred Chen: Multiple-Query Processing in Main Memory Databases(1994)
  • Mario Nascimento : Efficient Indexing of Temporal Databases Via B+-Trees(1996)
  • Jun-Lin Lin: Checkpointing MMDB and Distributed Databases(1997)
  • Jenq-Foung(J.F.) Yao : Mobile Computing Caching (1998)
  • Qun(Renee) Ren: Semantic Caching in Mobile Computing(2000)
  • Yongqiao(Al) Xiao: Clustering and Association Rules(2000)