new students – Penn Database Group https://db.cis.upenn.edu Inventing the future of data management! Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:32:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://db.cis.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cropped-simplified-shield-final-5-1-32x32.png new students – Penn Database Group https://db.cis.upenn.edu 32 32 Welcome Alan! https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2026/08/21/welcome-alan/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:00:37 +0000 https://db.cis.upenn.edu/?p=682 The Penn Database Group is welcoming Alan Yao to the Ph.D. program this year! Alan earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree from UCLA. Alan will work wit the DB group and with Jake Gardner at the intersection of machine learning and data management.

]]> Welcome Noopur! https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2025/08/29/welcome-noopur/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:29:00 +0000 https://db.cis.upenn.edu/?p=673 Read more]]> The Penn Database Group is welcoming Noopur Bhatt to the Ph.D. program this year! Noopur previously earned her master’s degree from Columbia University and her bachelor’s degree from Georgia Tech. Noopur will work with both the DB group and the Schlein Center for Cybersecurity at the intersection of policy, security, and data management.

Headshot of Noopur Bhatt

]]> Welcome Zijie! https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2024/09/12/welcome-zijie/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:00:00 +0000 https://db.cis.upenn.edu/?p=521 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.

Zijie Zhao
]]> Welcome Jeff & Zixuan! https://db.cis.upenn.edu/2023/09/12/welcome-jeff-zixuan/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:13:08 +0000 https://db.cis.upenn.edu/?p=326 The Penn Database Group is welcoming to new Ph.D. students this year!

  • Jeff Tao, who previously earned his master’s degree from Columbia University, is joining the lab to work on data visualization and analysis systems that are easy to use and optimized end-to-end.
  • Zixuan Yi, who previously earned her bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, is joining the lab to work on query optimization and learned systems.
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Zixuan Yi
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