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
Four CMU-DB Talks @ SIGMOD 2017
May 13, 2017
Members of the Carnegie Mellon Database Group are presenting four times at SIGMOD 2017 held in Chicago, IL: Tutorial Joy Arulraj & Andy Pavlo — How to Build a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management System Keynote Andy Pavlo — What Are We Doing With Our Lives? Nobody Cares About Our Research on Transactions Research Talk Dana Van Aken — Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning Research Talk Andy Pavlo — Online Deduplication for Databases Videos of these talks 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
CMU Wins SIGKDD 2016 ‘Best Research Paper’ Award
Aug 18, 2016
The Carnegie Mellon Database Group team won the Best Research Paper award in SIGKDD 2016 for their paper FRAUDAR: Bounding Graph Fraud in the Face of Camouflage. The authors were Bryan Hooi, Hyun Ah Song, Alex Beutel, Neil Shah, Kijung Shin, and Prof. Christos Faloutsos. KDD is the flagship data mining conference. The award ceremony was on Sunday Aug. 14, in San Francisco. The paper was selected out of over 700 submissions, and among 70 accepted papers. The paper gives Read More
Fall 2016 Open Student Positions
Aug 14, 2016
The Carnegie Mellon Database Group has several open positions for students in the 2016-2017 academic year. These positions are only available to current and recently graduated CMU students. The positions that are funded will be marked as "paid" and are only available to current CMU students. The unpaid positions are more research related, and thus can be part of an independent study or senior thesis project that could turn into a publication. We especially encourage students who are interested in Read More
Danai Koutra Wins 2016 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award
Jul 8, 2016
CS alumna Prof. Danai Koutra (now faculty at the University of Michigan Ann-Arbor) won the SIGKDD 2016 Dissertation award, for her thesis Exploring and Making Sense of Large Graphs The thesis contributes fast algorithms for summarizing large graphs, both static as well as time-evolving, and for contrasting two or more graphs, with applications to brain wiring, social networks, collaboration networks and more. SIGKDD is the premier conference for large-scale data mining. The competition for the dissertation award is fierce, with Read More
CMU Team Wins 2016 SIGKDD ‘Test of Time’ Award
Jul 8, 2016
CMU team wins the ‘Test of Time’ award at KDD 2016 for their 2005 paper: Graphs Over Time: Densification Laws, Shrinking Diameters and Possible Explanations Jure Leskovec, Jon Kleinberg, and Christos Faloutsos KDD is the flagship conference for large-scale data mining. Jure was a phd student at SCS/MLD (and currently a professor at Stanford). Jon was visiting CMU for his sabbatical. The paper made the surprising discoveries that real graphs become denser over time, following a power-law pattern, and that Read More
Vagelis and Leman win ‘best paper’ awards in SDM’16
May 22, 2016
SIAM SDM is one of the top conferences in data mining. Specifically, Vagelis attracted the 'best student paper award', with his single-author paper on tensors Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Automatic Unsupervised Tensor Mining with Quality Assessment There, Vagelis showed how to measure the goodness of a tensor decomposition, and how to automatically determine the correct rank of such a decomposition. Moreover, CMU/SCS alumna Prof. Leman Akoglu, and her student, attracted the 'best paper runner-up award' for their paper on anomaly Read More
Joy Arulraj Wins 2016 Samsung PhD Fellowship
Apr 23, 2016
CMU DB Ph.D. student and teenage heartthrob Joy Arulraj won a Samsung 2017 PhD Fellowship in the area of Software and Memory System Solutions for Data Centers. Joy's research is on developing the novel database management system architectures for emerging non-volatile memory technologies to support modern hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) applications. The Samsung PhD Fellowship program awards outstanding graduate students working on cutting-edge research for innovative solutions to their fields’ biggest problems. More information about the Samsung PhD Fellowship program. Read More
Dana Van Aken Wins 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Apr 11, 2016
CMU DB Ph.D. student Dana Van Aken won a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Dana's research is focused on using machine learning techniques for automatic database management system tuning and configuration. NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports outstanding student researchers pursuing graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics who demonstrate the potential to have a significant impact in their fields. Almost 17,000 students applied for a total of 2,000 fellowships awarded nationwide. More Information about the NSF Graduate Fellowship Read More