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Announcing CMU’s Database Industry Affiliates Program

Sep 9, 2024

Pittsburgh, PA – The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is pleased to announce the launch of its new Industry Affiliates Program (IAP), designed to create stronger ties between academia and the tech industry. Through this initiative, industry leaders will collaborate with the group to drive cutting-edge research, contribute to database innovation, and help shape the next generation of database engineers. Members of the IAP have exclusive access to unique student recruitment opportunities, early-stage research, and an annual workshop aimed at solving Read More

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

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

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

Summer 2018 Research Internships

Nov 22, 2017

The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is offering multiple internship positions for a special summer research project at its Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania campus. It will be an intense 12-week internship from June to August 2018. The project will be to work on a new open-source distributed database system from scratch. Thus, we are looking for candidates that have strong systems-level C/C++ programming skills. Interns will be paid a three-month summer salary (commensurate with skills and experience) and the cost of travel expenses. Read More

Time Series Database Lectures – Seminar Series (Fall 2017)

Aug 28, 2017

The CMU Database group is holding a semester-long seminar series with the leading developers of time-series database management systems. The Time Series 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 14 - Paul Dix (InfluxDB) Sep 21 - Karthik Ramasamy (Heron) Read More

CMU Database Post-Doctoral Researcher Position (Fall 2017)

Jun 19, 2017

The Carnegie Mellon Database Group has an opening for a fully-funded post-doctoral position on database management systems at its Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania campus. The position is to assist with the research and development of CMU's in-memory HTAP DBMS (Peloton) as part of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Cloud Systems. The post-doctoral researcher will be expected to develop their own research agenda within the scope of the position, design and implement novel analysis techniques, conduct experiments, supervise students on Read More

Summer 2017 Research Internships

Dec 18, 2016

The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is offering multiple internship positions for a special summer research project at its Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania campus. It will be an intense 12-week internship from June to August 2017. The project will be to work on a new open-source distributed database system from scratch. Thus, we are looking for candidates that have strong systems-level C/C++ programming skills. Interns will be paid a three-month summer salary (commensurate with skills and experience) and the cost of travel expenses. Read More