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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

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

Prof. Andy Pavlo wins 2019 NSF CAREER Award

Mar 10, 2019

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Complacency is our biggest enemy. It lulls the mind into laziness. It makes us not question how things should be because we take for granted that this how things have always been done. This is especially true in databases where the market is established and well-endowed incumbents are entrenched. Thus, it takes resolution and pluck to challenge this world and strive for something better. With this in mind, the CMU Database Group is pleased to announce that 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

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

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Prof. Christos Faloutsos wins PAKDD Distinguished Contributions Award

May 14, 2018

Prof. Christos Faloutsos attracted the PAKDD Distinguished Contribution Award, in the upcoming PAKDD 2018, in Melbourne, Australia. Quote from the conference web site: The Steering Committee considers it an honor to award the PAKDD Distinguished Contributions Award for 2018 to Professor Christos Faloutsos, for his many seminal contributions to the field of data mining, including time series matching, network analysis, graph computation, and their scalability. Especially notable is his highly successful program in showing how strong mathematical results can be Read More

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

Apr 6, 2018

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 Read More

Prof. Andy Pavlo wins 2017 Google Faculty Research Award

Mar 20, 2018

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 Read More

Prof. Andy Pavlo wins Sloan Research Fellowship

Feb 15, 2018

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 Read More