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Yiming Lin (Berkeley): Toward Building Efficient Document Analytics Systems from the Lens of Document Structure
Abstract: The vast majority—over 80%—of data today exists in unstructured formats, and querying and extracting value from unstructured document collections remains a considerable challenge. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have […]
Yicong Huang: From 100 Applications to 9 Offers: Lessons from the Academic and Industry Job Market
Abstract: In this talk, I'll share my personal journey navigating the academic and industry job markets during the 2024–2025 academic year. I'll reflect on key decisions, behind-the-scenes experiences, and the […]
Binbin Gu: PoneglyphDB: Efficient Non-interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Arbitrary SQL-Query Verification
DBH 4011Abstract: As databases increasingly serve as backbones for sensitive applications, ensuring both data confidentiality and computational integrity becomes critical—especially when the data owner and querier do not fully trust each other. In this talk, […]
Fangqi Liu (Vanderbilt University)
DBH 3011ISG End-of-year Celebration
DBH 4011We celebrate the achievements of the ISG members in the past academic year. Here's the presentation deck.
Michal Shmueli-Scheuer (IBM Research): GenAI Benchmarking and Evaluation
DBH 6011Title: GenAI Benchmarking and Evaluation Wednesday (July 16), 11 am - noon, DBH 6011, UC Irvine Abstract: In this seminar, I will present a practical perspective on benchmarking in the […]
Dr. Taina Coleman: Research Without Borders: High Performance Computing for Discovery Across Domains
DBH 3011Research Without Borders: High Performance Computing for Discovery Across Domains Dr. Tainã Coleman, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Oct. 3, Friday, 1 - 2 pm, DBH 3011, UCI Title: High-performance […]
Farzad Habibi: Brook-2PL: Tolerating High Contention Workloads with A Deadlock-Free Two-Phase Locking Protocol
DBH 3011For this week's IGS seminar, Farzad will be presenting his research work. Time & Location: Friday Oct 10, 2025, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Donald Bren Hall 3011, ICS, UC […]
Dr. Doug Terry: Consistency in the Cloud
DBH 6011Dr. Doug Terry will give a guest lecture in CS 224P ("Big Data") class. The talk should be very interesting to ISG members. Doug is a fantastic speaker! Title: […]
Pratyoy Das: SmartRabbit An Interactive Query Processor
DBH 3011For this week's IGS seminar, Pratyoy will be presenting his research work. Time & Location: Friday Oct 31, 2025, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Donald Bren Hall 3011, ICS, UC […]
Dr. Matteo Interlandi (Microsoft): Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes
DBH 3011The Department of Computer Science, Information Systems Group, UC Irvine WELCOMES Dr. Matteo Interlandi Gray Systems Lab (GSL) at Microsoft Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes November 21, 2025, Friday, […]