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 Read more…
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.
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 Read more…
This June we were excited to host SIGMOD 2022, the top database conference, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia! This was the first in-person/hybrid database conference in North America since the pandemic began. It was exciting to see friends 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 Apple)! Ryan has done amazing work on combining ideas from deep learning with database systems Read more…
Congratulations to Professor Susan Davidson, who was one of ten Penn faculty (and 3 Penn Engineers) named a 2021 AAAS Fellow!
Congratulations to Professor Zack Ives, who was named a 2021 ACM Fellow!
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!
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; Read more…