Forming better database queries at heart of UT Arlington research project

NSF grant could lead to better decision makingChengkai Li, an associate professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department , has been awarded a $241,778 National Science Foundation grant for his proposal about “perturbation analysis of database queries.” He is teaming with Duke University and Stanford University on the joint grant, which is worth more than $1.2 million. Perturbation analysis studies how tweaks of database query templates and parameters affect query results. “In this project, the focus of database research is switched from answering