ML⇄DB Seminar Series — Fall 2023
Aug 3, 2023
Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon University Database Research Group celebrates the grand convergence of data storage and computational mastery with the ML⇄DB Seminar Series (Machine Learning for Databases + Databases for Machine Learning). Each speaker will present the implementation details of their respective systems and examples of the technical challenges they faced when working with real-world customers. CMU-DB's weekly meetings (Mondays @ 4:30pm EST) are available to the public on Zoom. Non-CMU affiliated members of the general public are Read More
¡Databases! – A Database Seminar Series
Aug 17, 2022
Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is hosting another round of online database technical tech talks in the fall 2022 semester. ¡Databases! – A Database Seminar Series will feature talks from leading researchers and industry developers that are building state-of-the-art systems. CMU-DB's weekly meetings (Mondays @ 4:30pm EST) are available to the public on Zoom. Non-CMU affiliated members of the general public are invited to attend. The recordings are available on the CMU-DB Youtube Channel afterwards. Schedule September Read More
Prof. Andy Pavlo wins 2021 VLDB Early Career Award
Aug 11, 2021
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Databases are not a field in systems research or computer science. Databases are a lifestyle. At all points in one's life, you should consider whether whatever you are doing at that moment is contributing to humanity's knowledge and understanding of databases. If the answer is no, you should cease the activity and get back to working on what matters in life: database research. This is a tough choice. It means that children are going to be forgotten Read More
Huanchen Zhang Wins SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award
May 16, 2021
Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is pleased to announce that CS alumnus Prof. Huanchen Zhang (now faculty at Tsinghua University) has won the 2021 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award. This honor is conferred for the best dissertation in the field of databases for the previous year. Huanchen's thesis, entitled "Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems", develops new methods for reducing the memory overhead of search trees. Huanchen's thesis advisers were CMU CS faculty members David Read More
Vaccination 2021 Database Tech Talks
Mar 1, 2021
Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is hosting a series of online database technical tech talks in 2021 as we start to get vaccinated. These talks will feature leading researchers and industry developers that are building state-of-the-art systems. CMU-DB's weekly meetings (Mondays @ 4:30pm EST) are available to the public on Zoom. Non-CMU affiliated members of the general public are invited to attend. See the seminar info page for the schedule of upcoming talks. The recordings are available Read More
Quarantine 2020 Database Tech Talks
May 4, 2020
Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is hosting a series of online database technical tech talks during the COVID-19 lockdown. These talks will feature leading researchers and industry developers that are building state-of-the-art systems. CMU-DB's weekly meetings (Mondays @ 4:30pm EST) are available to the public on Zoom. Non-CMU affiliated members of the general public are invited to attend. See the seminar info page for the schedule of upcoming talks. The recordings are available on Youtube afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjagqlf1NxuBQwaMkrHXi-iz Read More
Joy Arulraj Wins SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award
Apr 27, 2019
Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is pleased to announce that CS alumnus Prof. Joy Arulraj (now faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology) has won the 2019 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award. This honor is conferred for the best dissertation in the field of databases for the previous year. Joy's thesis, entitled "The Design and Implementation of a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management Systems", is based on his work exploring new DBMS architectures for NVM. This was Read More
Carnegie Mellon Database Group Wins 2018 IEEE ICDM Test-of-Time Paper Award
Nov 11, 2018
Singapore - The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is pleased to announce that their 2009 paper PEGASUS: A Peta-Scale Graph Mining System - Implementation and Observations has won the 2018 IEEE ICDM Test-of-Time Award. The authors were CMU Ph.D. students U Kang and Charalampos Tsourakakis, in collaboration with Prof. Christos Faloutsos. This paper on the PEGASUS project showed how to apply graph-mining algorithms on a Map-Reduce platform. The main insight was that a wide range of graph mining algorithms eventually require Read More
Hardware Accelerated Database Lectures – Seminar Series (Fall 2018)
Sep 3, 2018
The CMU Database group is holding a semester-long seminar series with the leading developers of DBMSs designed for modern hardware (e.g., GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs). The Hardware Accelerated Database Lectures is designed to showcase some of the newer technologies available for data-intensive applications. Each speaker will present the implementation details of their respective systems and examples of the technical challenges that they faced when working with real-world customers. The list of confirmed speakers are: Sep 6 - Nima Negahban (Kinetica) Sep Read More
Carnegie Mellon Database Group Wins 2018 SIGMOD Best Paper Award
May 22, 2018
Houston, TX — When the dice are down on the pass and you are coming up with sevens, that's when you know your research is truly on point. No need for squabbling, no need for additional rolls. You got it done right the first time. The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is pleased to announce that their latest paper SuRF: Practical Range Query Filtering with Fast Succinct Tries has won the 2018 SIGMOD Best Paper Award. The paper's lead author author Read More