DB Group Administrator – Penn Database Group https://db.cis.upenn.edu Inventing the future of data management! Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:28:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://db.cis.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cropped-simplified-shield-final-5-1-32x32.png DB Group Administrator – Penn Database Group https://db.cis.upenn.edu 32 32 Congratulations to Peter Baile Chen! https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/08/15/congratulations-to-peter-baile-chen/ https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/08/15/congratulations-to-peter-baile-chen/#respond Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:43:09 +0000 https://db.cis.upenn.edu/?p=207 We are delighted that Peter Baile Chen, who worked as an undergraduate researcher in the Database Group and completed his Bachelor’s degree in Networked and Social Systems Engineering, his joining MIT for his PhD! He’ll be working with Mike Cafarella and Mike Stonebraker. Congrats Peter!

]]> https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/08/15/congratulations-to-peter-baile-chen/feed/ 0 Congratulations to Yi Zhang! https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/07/28/congratulations-to-yi-zhang/ https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/07/28/congratulations-to-yi-zhang/#respond Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:32:00 +0000 https://db.cis.upenn.edu/?p=202 Congratulations to Yi Zhang (advised by Zack Ives and Dan Roth) on successfully defending his dissertation, Extending Provenance for Understanding Claims and Data Analyses!

Yi will be joining Amazon Web Services in Fall 2022.

]]> https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/07/28/congratulations-to-yi-zhang/feed/ 0 Congratulations to Qizhen Zhang! https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/07/18/congratulations-to-qizhen-zhang/ https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/07/18/congratulations-to-qizhen-zhang/#respond Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:24:00 +0000 https://db.cis.upenn.edu/?p=198 Congratulations to Qizhen Zhang (and his advisors Vincent Liu and Boon Thau Loo) for successfully defending his thesis, Hyperscale Data Processing with Network-centric Designs!

Qizhen will be joining the University of Toronto Computer Science Department next year, after a one-year postdoc at Microsoft Research.

Qizhen, his thesis committee, and his advisors
]]> https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/07/18/congratulations-to-qizhen-zhang/feed/ 0 Welcome Ryan Marcus! https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/06/15/welcome-ryan-marcus/ https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/06/15/welcome-ryan-marcus/#respond Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:38:00 +0000 https://db.cis.upenn.edu/?p=205 Read more]]> We are delighted to welcome Ryan Marcus as a new Assistant Professor joining the Database Group, starting in Fall 2023 (after spending a year at Amazon)! Ryan has done amazing work on combining ideas from deep learning with database systems — including the Neo and Bao reinforcement learning-based query optimizers. We look forward to seeing you soon, Ryan!

]]> https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/06/15/welcome-ryan-marcus/feed/ 0 Susan Davidson Named 2021 AAAS Fellow https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/01/30/susan-davidson-named-2021-aaas-fellow/ https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/01/30/susan-davidson-named-2021-aaas-fellow/#respond Sun, 30 Jan 2022 21:05:28 +0000 http://ec2-18-221-231-142.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/?p=98

Congratulations to Professor Susan Davidson, who was one of ten Penn faculty (and 3 Penn Engineers) named a 2021 AAAS Fellow!

]]> https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/01/30/susan-davidson-named-2021-aaas-fellow/feed/ 0 Zack Ives Named 2021 ACM Fellow https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/01/20/zack-ives-named-2021-acm-fellow/ https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/01/20/zack-ives-named-2021-acm-fellow/#respond Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:20:00 +0000 http://ec2-18-221-231-142.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/?p=104 Congratulations to Professor Zack Ives, who was named a 2021 ACM Fellow!

]]> https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2022/01/20/zack-ives-named-2021-acm-fellow/feed/ 0 Susan Davidson and Boon Thau Loo Named Spira Teaching Award Recipients https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2021/09/30/susan-davidson-and-boon-thau-loo-named-spira-teaching-awardees/ https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2021/09/30/susan-davidson-and-boon-thau-loo-named-spira-teaching-awardees/#respond Thu, 30 Sep 2021 21:05:00 +0000 http://ec2-18-221-231-142.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/?p=100 In recognition of their outstanding teaching, Professors Susan Davidson (co-director of the MSE in Data Science) and Boon Thau Loo (Associate Dean of Graduate Programs) were honored with Lutron Corporation’s Joel and Ruth Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching!

]]> https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2021/09/30/susan-davidson-and-boon-thau-loo-named-spira-teaching-awardees/feed/ 0 SIGMOD 2022 to Be Held in Philadelphia https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2021/06/30/sigmod-2022-to-be-held-in-philadelphia/ https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2021/06/30/sigmod-2022-to-be-held-in-philadelphia/#respond Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:16:00 +0000 http://ec2-18-221-231-142.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/?p=102 Read more]]> The Penn Database Group is looking forward to welcoming the database community to Philadelphia — in virtual and in-person form — in June 2022! More details about SIGMOD 2022 are here.

Penn professor Zack Ives will be the General Chair; postdocs Yinjun Wu and Mohammad Javad Amiri will serve as Awards Coordinator and Demo/Workshops Local Arrangements Chair.

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