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SUMMARY:ISG seminar: "How grants and funding work in academia"
DESCRIPTION:[ISG] ISG seminar this Friday (Feb. 6): “How grants and funding work in academia” \nIn the ISG seminar this Friday (1 – 2 pm\, DBH 3011)\, the ISG faculty will give a talk on “How grants and funding work in academia.”  We will discuss how faculty write proposals\, receive awards\, and spend the funds to support students and research activities.  We will also emphasize the importance of PhD students participating in proposal writing.
URL:https://isg.ics.uci.edu/event/isg-seminar-how-grants-and-funding-work-in-academia/
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SUMMARY:Santosh Hegde (Couchbase\, Inc.): From Transactions to Intelligence: Evolution of Couchbase for AI
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Computer Science\, Information Systems Group\, UC Irvine  \nWELCOMES \nSantosh Hegde \nCouchbase\, Inc. \n  \nFrom Transactions to Intelligence: Evolution of Couchbase for AI \n  \n02/13/2026\, Friday\, 1:00 – 2:00 pm \nPlace: DBH 3011 \n  \nAbstract:  When Couchbase started\, it was built to solve a very specific problem\, namely the handling of high-performance\, low-latency transactional workloads at massive scale. Over time\, however\, customer needs have evolved from simply storing and retrieving data reliably at scale\, to analyzing it in real time\, and now to reasoning over it using AI. In this talk\, we will explore the new capabilities in the Couchbase platform as it transforms from a pure NoSQL transactional database into a unified platform that supports transactions\, analytics\, and AI workloads all on the same data foundation. \n  \nBio:  Santosh Hegde is an engineering leader with over 18 years of experience in the design and development of large-scale distributed database systems. He currently serves as Vice President of Engineering at Couchbase\, where his work focuses on the intersection of database systems\, analytics\, and artificial intelligence. Previously\, he has held senior engineering leadership roles at IBM Software Labs and Visa Inc. His technical interests include query processing\, database runtimes\, columnar data systems\, large-scale data ingestion\, and database-as-a-service architectures. Santosh has contributed to the development of multiple enterprise data platforms\, including Informix\, DB2 (LUW) and Trino . More recently\, his work has focused on the evolution of data platforms to support emerging AI-driven application patterns.
URL:https://isg.ics.uci.edu/event/santosh-hegde-couchbase-inc-from-transactions-to-intelligence-evolution-of-couchbase-for-ai/
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SUMMARY:Ashwin Gerard Colaco (UCI): Bringing Simulators Inside the Database: A Vision for Interactive Scientific Exploration
DESCRIPTION:Time & Location:\n\n\nFriday Feb 20\, 2026\, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM\nDonald Bren Hall 3011\, ICS\, UC Irvine \nLunch will be provided. \n\nTitle:\nBringing Simulators Inside the Database: A Vision for Interactive Scientific Exploration\n\nAbstract:\nPhysics-based simulators are essential for scientific discovery and risk assessment\, powering what-if analyses for events like wildfires and hurricanes. Yet today’s workflow is fundamentally disconnected: analysts manually run simulations\, export results\, and load them into a database before any analysis can begin. This linear pipeline is slow\, brittle\, and especially limiting when the analysis itself reveals the need for new or refined simulation data.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this talk\, I present a vision for GenIE\, a new database paradigm that makes the database simulation-aware by seamlessly integrating multiple simulators as first-class components. Designed as an extension to PostgreSQL\, GenIE dynamically invokes simulators based on the user’s query\, avoids generating irrelevant data\, reuses prior results\, and supports iterative refinement at interactive speeds. I illustrate GenIE’s potential through two use cases: wildfire smoke dispersion analysis using WRF-SFIRE and HYSPLIT\, and hurricane hazard assessment combining wind\, surge\, and flood models. Our preliminary results show how GenIE can transform these traditionally slow\, static analyses into responsive explorations by intelligently managing the trade-off between simulation accuracy and runtime. I conclude by outlining the data engineering challenges and future research directions in realizing the full potential of simulation-aware databases for next-generation scientific data management.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio:\nAshwin Gerard Colaco is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UC Irvine\, advised by Sharad Mehrotra. His research focuses on the intersection of database systems and machine learning\, with a focus on cost-efficient inference and simulation-driven data exploration. He’s supported by the Hasso Plattner Institute Fellowship for scalable databases for ML research.
URL:https://isg.ics.uci.edu/event/ashwin-gerard-colaco-uci-bringing-simulators-inside-the-database-a-vision-for-interactive-scientific-exploration/
LOCATION:DBH 3011
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SUMMARY:Zexin Li (UCR): Unified Full-stack Co-design for On-device Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:For this week’s ISG seminar\, we’ll have an invited speaker: Zexin Li from University of California\, Riverside to give us a talk. \nTime & Location:\nFriday Feb 27\, 2026\, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM\nDonald Bren Hall 3011\, ICS\, UC Irvine\n(Zoom link will be shared by request) \nLunch will be provided. \nTitle:\nUnified Full-stack Co-design for On-device Machine Learning \nAbstract:\nThe integration of advanced artificial intelligence into Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)\, such as multirotor UAVs and wheeled mobile robots\, promises a future of edge intelligence. However\, deploying complex machine learning models directly onto real-time embedded systems presents significant challenges\, primarily due to strict timing constraints\, limited memory\, and dynamically changing environments. This talk presents a unified full-stack co-design approach to manage these complex\, multidimensional trade-offs. \nBio:\nZexin Li is a Ph.D. student at the University of California\, Riverside\, advised by Cong Liu. His research interests lie in interdisciplinary fields of real-time embedded systems and on-device machine learning. \nVolunteer:\nKeming Li \nSponsors:
URL:https://isg.ics.uci.edu/event/zexin-li-ucr-unified-full-stack-co-design-for-on-device-machine-learning/
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