As one of the top database research groups in the world, the Penn Database Group has made many fundamental contributions to the field — particularly in areas relating to scientific data management, Web data management, distributed data sharing, data provenance, and machine learning systems. Our research spans from theory to systems, AI, and applications, and it connects to other research areas within Penn’s CIS Department (such as machine learning, programming languages, logic and computation, computer networks, distributed systems, and approximation algorithms). Within the University, we also collaborate frequently with the AIRFoundry, the Institute for Biomedical Informatics, the Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, the ASSET Center, and the Warren Center for Network and Data Science. Our alumni are faculty in universities like U Washington, U Edinburgh, Duke U, IIS-Bangalore, U Toronto, and more; researchers with companies like Facebook-Meta, Amazon Web Services, and Google; and engineers all across tech.
The Penn DB Group headed to Boston this week for the VLDB conference! At the main conference, undergraduate alumni Daniel Xue presented his paper about fully concurrent GROUP BY aggregation, which was his senior thesis Read more
The Penn Database Group is welcoming Alan Yao to the Ph.D. program this year! Alan earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree from UCLA. Alan will work wit the DB group and with Jake Gardner at Read more
Our group won the 2026 CIDR Best Paper Award for our paper, “Survivorship Bias in Industrial Database Workloads.” As we look at our workload logs now, how can we possibly predict the query the user Read more
Many of us attended the Northeast Database Day meetup last week at UMass Boston! Penn students presented five posters: In addition to student posters, Ryan presented one of the three keynotes, “Next Steps for Learned Read more
The Penn Database Group is welcoming Noopur Bhatt to the Ph.D. program this year! Noopur previously earned her master’s degree from Columbia University and her bachelor’s degree from Georgia Tech. Noopur will work with both Read more
