Many of us attended the Northeast Database Day meetup last week at UMass Boston! Penn students presented five posters: In addition to student posters, Ryan presented one of the three keynotes, “Next Steps for Learned Query Optimization” (slides).
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 of Pennsylvania). In stateful serverless computing, workflows are broken into 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 for Offline Query OptimizationZixuan Yi (University of Pennsylvania)*; Yao Tian 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 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…
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 Bayesian optimization and deep learning to search for optimal query 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 old and new. Several Penn Database Group alumni were able 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 Read more…