Professor María Esther Vidal, Ph.D.
  Universidad Simón Bolívar
  Computer Science Department
  Caracas 1080, Venezuela
  Phone: -58212-9063268/-1301-6377804
  Email: mvidal@ldc.usb.ve/mvidal@umiacs.umd.edu
I am a Full Professor of the Computer Science Department at the University Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela.  I am part of the DataBase group and conduct my research on Query Rewriting, Optimization and Evaluation in Emerging technologies.  I have been an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland (UMIACS) (1995-1999) and a Visitor Professor at Universidad Politecnica de
Catalunya. Also, I have been  a Visitor Researcher at the
University of Maryland (UMIACS) every summer between 2000 and 2007, where I work with Dr. Louiqa Raschid.

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