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Huanchen Zhang Wins SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award

Posted: May 16, 2021 ┃ Category: Awards

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 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 Read More

Vaccination 2021 Database Tech Talks

Posted: March 1, 2021 ┃ Category: Annoucements

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 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. Read More

Quarantine 2020 Database Tech Talks

Posted: May 4, 2020 ┃ Category: Annoucements

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 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 Read More

Joy Arulraj Wins SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award

Posted: April 27, 2019 ┃ Category: Awards

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 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 Read More

Carnegie Mellon Database Group Wins 2018 IEEE ICDM Test-of-Time Paper Award

Posted: November 11, 2018 ┃ Category: Awards

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 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 Read More

Hardware Accelerated Database Lectures – Seminar Series (Fall 2018)

Posted: September 3, 2018 ┃ Category: Annoucements

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 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 Read More

Carnegie Mellon Database Group Wins 2018 SIGMOD Best Paper Award

Posted: May 22, 2018 ┃ Category: Awards

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 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 Read More

Prof. Andy Pavlo wins 2018 Joel & Ruth Spira Teaching Award

Posted: April 6, 2018 ┃ Category: Awards

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — A great philosopher was once asked what their ultimate goal was. Without a notice of hesitation, the philosopher replied that right now he did not feel that he was getting what he wanted. But at some later point when he received a small amount of accolades, then that was when the world would know that it is on. Indeed, this is because (without trying to brag too much) he knew that he had something that the world Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — A great philosopher was once asked what their ultimate goal was. Without a notice of hesitation, the philosopher replied that right now he did not feel that he was getting what he wanted. But at some later Read More

Prof. Andy Pavlo wins 2017 Google Faculty Research Award

Posted: March 20, 2018 ┃ Category: Awards

Mountain View, California — Science is a dirty game. People get hurt. Marriages get broken. Mix tapes get dropped. But in the end one is able to move humanity forward and make a difference. This is why we do database. This is why we get up in the morning for the research grind. Maybe there is a better life out there, but frankly we do not want to hear it. Given this, the CMU Database Group is pleased to announce Mountain View, California — Science is a dirty game. People get hurt. Marriages get broken. Mix tapes get dropped. But in the end one is able to move humanity forward and make a difference. This is why we do database. Read More

Prof. Andy Pavlo wins Sloan Research Fellowship

Posted: February 15, 2018 ┃ Category: Awards, Fellowship

New York City, New York — No one can escape the vicissitudes of life. We all know that going into this. We are driven to do one thing and one thing only: Databases. But this means that we will never ask, but instead just give. We are afforded the opportunity to wake up every morning and say to ourselves "today is the greatest day because I get to work on databases." Given this, the CMU Database Group is pleased to New York City, New York — No one can escape the vicissitudes of life. We all know that going into this. We are driven to do one thing and one thing only: Databases. But this means that we will never Read More