Alin Deutsch is interested in developing technologies for large-scale data publishing and integration on the Web. His research ranges from design and optimization of XML query languages to building high-level, user-friendly analysis and assisted-design tools helping data owners grasp the ramifications of granting access to their data on the Web. Alin received the NSF CAREER award for his work on XML middleware for privacy-preserving database publishing. He holds a Diploma of Electrical Engineer from the Polytechnic University Bucharest (Romania), an MS from the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania (2002).