We are excited to announce our new AIRFoundry project: a collaboration that spans Penn Engineering and the Perelman School of Medicine. Our vision is to use data integration and AI techniques to accelerate the process by which scientists can develop...
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Congratulations to Professor Ryan Marcus, for receiving a 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award. This is a recognition of both the promise and impact of Ryan’s work on using machine learning techniques to accelerate tasks in data management!
This year, at VLDB 2025, Penn will be well-represented with a variety of papers. CausalMesh: A Causal Cache for Stateful Serverless Computing: Haoran Zhang (University of Pennsylvania); Shuai Mu (Stony Brook University); Sebastian Angel (University of Pennsylvania); Vincent Liu (University Read more…
The Penn Database and Data Systems Group is well-represented at SIGMOD 2025! At the aiDM workshop, co-chaired by our own Ryan Marcus, there are two papers: At the main SIGMOD conference, the following papers will be presented. Low Rank Learning Read more…
The Penn Database Group is excited to move into Amy Gutmann Hall for the Spring! All faculty and students will be affiliated with the new lab space on the 4th Floor.
The Penn Database Group is welcoming Zijie Zhao to the Ph.D. program this year! Zijie previously earned his bachelor’s degree from Tianjin University, and is joining the DB group to work on adaptive and self-tuning systems.
This August, VLDB 2024 will be in Guangzhou, China! Penn will again be well-represented, with 3 papers in the Research Track: In Towards Full Stack Adaptivity in Permissioned Blockchains, PhD student Chenyuan Wu, postdoc alumnus Mohammad Javad Amiri (Stony Brook Read more…
The Penn DB Group presented a number of papers at SIGMOD 2024, hosted in Santiago, Chile! Penn presented five papers (four in SIGMOD and one in aiDM). Ph.D. student Soonbo Han (advisor: Zachary Ives) presented his work titled “Implementation Strategies Read more…
This May, several members of the Penn DB group attended the Northeast Database Day hosted at BU! The group presented two posters on query optimization. Ph.D. student Jeff Tao (supervisors: Ryan Marcus and Andrew Head) presented his work on using Read more…
The Penn Database Group recently returned from VLDB in lovely Vancouver! Penn students, faculty, and collaborators presented three research papers and two workshop papers at the conference. Ph.D. student Chenyuan Wu (supervisor: Boon Thau Loo) presented work on FlexChain and Read more…