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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 […]
Prof. Ruben Vescovo (Tohoku University): Modeling Japan’s DMAT Framework: an agent-based model for disaster medical mobility at scale
DBH 3011For this week's IGS seminar, we'll have Prof. Ruben Vescovo, a visiting collaborator from Tohoku University to present his work. Time & Location: Friday Nov 14, 2025, 1:00 PM - 2:00 […]
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, […]
Yiming Lin (UC Berkeley): AI-Powered Data Systems for Multimodal Analytics
DBH 3011Time & Location: Friday Jan 16, 2026, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Donald Bren Hall 3011, ICS, UC Irvine Lunch will be provided. Title: AI-Powered Data Systems for Multimodal Analytics […]
Prof. Jianguo Wang (Purdue): Databases for AI: The Case for Vector Databases
DBH 3011Title: Databases for AI: The Case for Vector Databases 1/23/2026, Friday DBH 3011, UCI Abstract: Vector databases have recently emerged as a hot topic due to the widespread interest in […]
Andrew Chio: Building Resilient Systems for Critical Infrastructures: A Model-Driven and Data-Driven Approach
DBH 3011Time & Location: Friday Jan 30, 2026, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Donald Bren Hall 3011, ICS, UC IrvineLunch will be provided. Title: Building Resilient Systems for Critical Infrastructures: A […]
ISG seminar: “How grants and funding work in academia”
DBH 3011ISG seminar this Friday (Feb. 6): "How grants and funding work in academia" In the ISG seminar this Friday (1 - 2 pm, DBH 3011), the ISG faculty will give […]
Santosh Hegde (Couchbase, Inc.): From Transactions to Intelligence: Evolution of Couchbase for AI
DBH 3011The Department of Computer Science, Information Systems Group, UC Irvine WELCOMES Santosh Hegde Couchbase, Inc. From Transactions to Intelligence: Evolution of Couchbase for AI 02/13/2026, Friday, 1:00 - […]
Ashwin Gerard Colaco (UCI): Bringing Simulators Inside the Database: A Vision for Interactive Scientific Exploration
DBH 3011Time & Location: Friday Feb 20, 2026, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Donald Bren Hall 3011, ICS, UC Irvine Lunch will be provided. Title: Bringing Simulators Inside the Database: A […]
Zexin Li (UCR): Unified Full-stack Co-design for On-device Machine Learning
DBH 3011For this week's ISG seminar, we'll have an invited speaker: Zexin Li from University of California, Riverside to give us a talk. Time & Location: Friday Feb 27, 2026, 1:00 […]
Zheng LUO (UCLA): Generating Join Trees for Yannakakis Algorithm
DBH 3011ISG seminar on March 6, Friday, 1 - 2 pm, DBH 3011 Title: Generating Join Trees for Yannakakis Algorithm Abstract: Most research on query optimization has centered on binary join algorithms like […]
Sarah Asad: Teaching Data Science and AI/ML to Diverse Learners Using Apache Texera: An Experience Report
DBH 3011We'll have Sarah present her work for this week's ISG seminar. Time & Location: Friday April 17, 2026, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Donald Bren Hall 3011, ICS, UC Irvine […]
Prof. Eduard Dragut (Temple University): Toward Scalable Knowledge Extraction with Weak Supervision and Large Language Models
DBH 3011Friday April 24, 2026, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Donald Bren Hall 3011, ICS, UC Irvine Zoom: https://uci.zoom.us/j/95509222811?pwd=2V8Hnx71iP6dyfNsEPoo97NUfCFWTo.1 Lunch will be provided. Title: Toward Scalable Knowledge Extraction with Weak Supervision and […]
Yinan & Juncheng ICDE Practice Talk
DBH 3011We'll have Yinan & Juncheng present their ICDE works for this week's ISG Seminar. This will be a shared session. Time & Location: Friday May 1, 2026, 1:00 PM - […]
Pratyoy (UCI): SmartRabbit An Interactive Query Processor
DBH 3011For this week's ISG seminar, Pratyoy will do his SIGMOD practice talk. Time & Location: Friday May 8, 2026, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Donald Bren Hall 3011, ICS, UC […]