Parke Godfrey

Parke Godfrey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at York University. His research focuses on databases, data mining, and artificial intelligence, particularly cooperative query answering, skyline queries, and logic-based query optimization.

• PhD in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park (1999)
• MS in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology
• BS in Mathematical Sciences from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

His current research endeavors include:

• SPQL (Skyline-based Preference Query Language) for extending SQL
• Understanding properties of skyline sets
• Relational algorithms for skyline computation
• Pareto Search for effective web search
• Optimizing RDBMS for data mining and scientific applications

He has affiliations with:

• Laboratory for Computer Systems Research at York University
• IBM Visiting Research Scientist at IBM Toronto Laboratory