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Dr. Matteo Interlandi (Microsoft): Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes
November 21 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Department of Computer Science, Information Systems Group, UC Irvine
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Dr. Matteo Interlandi
Gray Systems Lab (GSL) at Microsoft
Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes
November 21, 2025, Friday, 1 – 2 pm, DBH 3011, UC Irvine
The huge demand for computation in artificial intelligence (AI) is driving unparalleled investments in new hardware and software systems for AI. This leads to an explosion in the number of specialized hardware devices, which are now part of the offerings of major cloud providers. Meanwhile, by hiding the low-level complexity through a tensor-based interface, AI frameworks such as PyTorch allow data scientists to efficiently exploit the exciting capabilities offered by the new hardware. In this talk, we will present how databases can ride the wave of innovation happening in the AI space thanks to Tensor Query Processor (TQP). TQP is the first AI-native SQL query processor leveraging AI frameworks for: (1) efficiently running SQL queries on GPUs; (2) scale out query execution on clusters of GPU nodes; and (3) bring new multi-modal capabilities into SQL.
Matteo Interlandi is a Principal Scientist Manager in the Gray Systems Lab (GSL) at Microsoft. Before Microsoft, he was a Postdoc at the University of California, Los Angeles. Matteo received his Ph.D. from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Matteo’s work has received a best demo award at VLDB 2022, and honorable mentions at SIGMOD 2021 and VLDB 2023/24.