Awards and recognitions
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 wants to run, but cannot run? Marcus et al., “Survivorship Bias in Industrial Database Workloads” 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 for Views over Property Graphs,” which won the best paper 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!