new students
Welcome Jeff & Zixuan!
The Penn Database Group is welcoming to new Ph.D. students this year! Jeff Tao Zixuan Yi
graduated
Congratulations to Peter Baile Chen!
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…
graduated
Congratulations to Yi Zhang!
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.
graduated
Congratulations to Qizhen Zhang!
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…
events
SIGMOD 2022 Held in Philadelphia
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…
new faculty
Welcome Ryan Marcus!
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 Read more…
awards
Susan Davidson Named 2021 AAAS Fellow
Congratulations to Professor Susan Davidson, who was one of ten Penn faculty (and 3 Penn Engineers) named a 2021 AAAS Fellow!
awards
Zack Ives Named 2021 ACM Fellow
Congratulations to Professor Zack Ives, who was named a 2021 ACM Fellow!
awards
Susan Davidson and Boon Thau Loo Named Spira Teaching Award Recipients
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!
events
SIGMOD 2022 to Be Held in Philadelphia
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…