Speaker:

Sailesh Krishnamurthy

Date:

Wed Apr 23, 2025 @ 12:30pm EDT

Date:

Wed Apr 23, 2025

Time:

12:30pm EDT

Location:

PH 100

Title:

Real-world applications of Gen AI and Databases

System:

AlloyDB

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Talk Info:

In this talk we will explore the transformative potential of integrating databases and generative AI in enterprise applications. As Large Language Models (LLMs) are being rapidly adopted, it’s clear that they need to interact with a plethora of other systems in the enterprise and agentic applications have emerged as the primary integration mechanism. Of these integration targets, databases are critical, in order to deliver accurate, contextually relevant, and user-friendly experiences. There is, however, a catch – databases have extremely wide surface areas, and contain highly sensitive and privileged information. Many challenges, therefore, arise in integrating databases with LLMs – these include security, correctness, safety, and reliability. We will describe a principled way to reason about how to build agentic applications that integrate database-specific tools that can run the gamut from being single-use/circumscribed to highly flexible. In all these situations, we argue that security is a first-order problem that needs to be tamed in order to make such applications viable. We will describe “parameterized secure views”, a key innovation that Google has developed in AlloyDB that enables these flexible tools that allows for secure natural language querying for databases by building security right inside the database.

On Zoom at: https://cmu.zoom.us/my/jignesh

Bio:

Sailesh Krishnamurthy is Vice President of Engineering at Google Cloud where he leads Cloud SQL and Non-Relational Databases as well as a program to leverage Gen AI and Google’s Gemini models in various aspects of database management. He is an innovator and entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in databases and the cloud. Before Google, Sailesh was GM for Aurora and RDS MySQL at Amazon preceded by a stint at Cisco Systems via the acquisition of Truviso, a real-time streaming data analytics software company that he co-founded. Sailesh is an authority in data management and is an author of over a dozen academic papers and several issued U.S. patents. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2006.