James.Cheney

Personal information

Name

James Cheney

Role

Research Fellow

Biography

I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, working in the areas of databases and programming languages, with applications to data-intensive science and research.

From September 2004 until October 2008 I was a postdoctoral research associate in the Database Group. I have also been involved with the Digital Curation Centre and during 2008-2009 I organized a Theme Program on Principles of Provenance for the eScience Institute.

I earned my PhD in Computer Science at Cornell University in August 2004. From January to May 2003 I visited Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory. In the summer of 2001 I worked at Intertrust on a summer internship. I have a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics (May 1998) and MS in Mathematics (August 1998) from Carnegie Mellon University.

Phone number

+44 131 651 5658

Key publications

On the expressiveness of implicit provenance in query and update languages, P. Buneman, J. Cheney and S. Vansummeren. Transactions on Database Systems, 33(4):28 November 2008.

Provenance in databases: Why, where and how, J. Cheney, L. Chiticariu and W.-C. Tan. Foundations and Trends in Databases, 1(4):379-474, 2009.

A formal framework for provenance security, James Cheney. CSF 2011.

A core calculus for provenance, Umut A. Acar, Amal Ahmed, James Cheney and Roly Perera. POST 2012.

Status

Research staff

History

Member for

11 years 10 months