Talks

ISG Talks are sponsored by Azazie and Couchbase.

Upcoming:

There are no upcoming events at this time

Past:

31 May 2024

Mohammad Sadoghi (UC Davis): The Journey of Building Global-Scale Sustainable Blockchain Fabric

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

17 May 2024

Pat Helland (Salesforce): Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What’s the BIG DEAL?

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

10 May 2024

Mike Heddes: Efficient Cardinality Estimation of Multi-Join Queries using Count Sketches

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

26 April 2024

Xinyuan Lin: Data Science Tasks Implemented with Scripts versus GUI-Based Workflows: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

19 April 2024

Mohammed Al-Kateb (Amazon Redshift): The Evolution of Amazon Redshift

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

12 April 2024

Juncheng Fang: ImmortalChopper: Real-Time and Resilient Distributed Transactions in the Edge-Cloud

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

05 April 2024

Lukasz Golab (University of Waterloo): Understanding models and the data they learn from

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

15 March 2024

Yinan Zhou: SpendableDB: A UTxO-based decentralized Database

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

04 March 2024

Bratin Saha (AWS Amazon): Scaling Generative AI in the Enterprise

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 4011,

01 March 2024

Yunyan Ding: Efficient Mouse Brain Image Processing Using Collaborative Data Workflows on Texera

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

12 February 2024

Raul Castro Fernandez (U. Chicago): On Data Ecology, Data Markets, the Value of Data, and Dataflow Governance

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

09 February 2024

Joseph Hellerstein (UC Berkeley): Hydro: A Compiler Stack for Distributed Programs

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

02 February 2024

Shengquan Ni: Supporting time-travel debugging in Texera

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

26 January 2024

Volker Markl (TU Berlin): Mosaics of Big Data: Database Systems and Information Management – Trends and a Vision

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

19 January 2024

Henry F. Korth (Lehigh University): Blockchain: Computer Science Foundations, Positive Social and Business Impact, and Research Opportunities

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

12 January 2024

Shahram Ghandeharizadeh(USC): Intelligent 3D Multimedia Displays using Flying Light Specks

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

01 December 2023

Vishal Chakraborty: Much Ado About Data-Undo: Semantically Meaningful Data Erasure

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

03 November 2023

Nada Lahjouji: ProBE: Proportioning Privacy Budget for Complex Exploratory Decision Support

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

27 October 2023

Ken Birman (Cornell): Cascade: A Platform for Fast Edge Intelligence

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

20 October 2023

Boon Thau Loo(UPenn): Towards Full-Stack Adaptivity in Permissioned Blockchain Systems

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

13 October 2023

Suyash Gupta(UC Berkeley): Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust!

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

DBH 4011,

06 October 2023

Glenn Galvizo: Removing the ‘A’ in DAG: Navigational Queries in Hyracks

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

09 June 2023

Hari Kishore Chaparala: When (Apache) AsterixDB Hit An (Apache) Iceberg

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

02 June 2023

Saeed Kargar: Hamming Tree: The case for Energy-Aware Indexing for NVMs

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

26 May 2023

Qiushi Bai: Improving SQL Performance Using Middleware-Based Query Rewriting

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

19 May 2023

Yiming Lin: Auto-BI: Automatically Build BI-Models Leveraging Local Join Prediction and Global Schema Graph

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

12 May 2023

CS Seminar: Prof. Arun Kumar: The New DBfication of ML/AI

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

05 May 2023

Farzad Habibi: Metastable Failures in Consensus Algorithms

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

28 April 2023

Quishi Bai: Maliva: Using Machine Learning to Rewrite Visualization Queries Under Time Constraints

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

14 April 2023

Zuozhi Wang: Texera: A System for Collaborative and Interactive Data Analytics Using Workflows (PhD Final Defense)

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

13 April 2023

C. Mohan: A Survey of Cloud Database Systems

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

DBH 3011,

10 March 2023

Fangqi Liu: DOME: Drone-assisted Monitoring of Emergent Events For Wildland Fire Resilience

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

03 March 2023

Alex Behm (Databricks): Photon: How to think vectorized

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

24 February 2023

Babak Salimi (UCSD): Certifying the Fairness of Predictive Models in the Face of Selection Bias

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

17 February 2023

Shanshan Han: Veil: Storage and Communication Efficient Volume Hiding Algorithms

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

10 February 2023

Yiming Lin: QUIP: Query-driven Missing Value Imputation

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

27 January 2023

Aaron Elmore: CrocodileDB: Resource Efficient Database Execution (CS Seminar)

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

26 January 2023

Aaron Elmore: Adventures in Database Compression

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

TBD,

20 January 2023

Tung-Chun Chang: SmartParcels: Cross-Layer IoT Planning for Smart Communities

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

13 January 2023

Andrew Chio: SmartSPEC: Customizable Smart Space Datasets via Event-Driven Simulations

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

02 December 2022

Glenn Galvizo: Navigational Pattern Matching w/ Graphix

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

18 November 2022

Peeyush Gupta: A Demonstration of TippersDB

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

04 November 2022

Juncheng Fang: PeloPartition- Improving Blockchain Resilience to Partitioning by Sharding

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

28 October 2022

Abhishek Singh: WedgeBlock – An Off-Chain Secure Logging Platform for Blockchain Applications

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

21 October 2022

Xiaozhen Liu: Demonstration of Collaborative and Interactive Workflow-based Data Analytics in Texera

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

14 October 2022

Qiushi Bai: QueryBooster-Improving SQL Performance Using Middleware Services for Human-Centered Query Rewriting + Demo

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

07 October 2022

Sadeem Alsudais: Drove: Tracking Execution Results of Workflows on Large Data

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

30 September 2022

ISG talks: Welcome Back

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

DBH 4011,

27 July 2022

Anand Deshpahde (Persistent Technologies): How to build your own Business

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Hybrid: DBH3011 & Zoom,

06 June 2022

Jayant Haritsa (IISc Bangalore): Shedding Light on Opaque Database Queries

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

DBH 3011,

31 May 2022

Matt Ingenthron (Couchbase): Couchbase and Distributed Computing Backends for big data processing

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm

DBH 3011,

22 April 2022

Tim Kraska (MIT): Towards instance-optimized data systems

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

11 March 2022

Nandit Soparkar (Ubiquiti): Data-driven AI technologies for a Consumer webapp

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Zoom,

25 October 2021

Yannis Chronis (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Analytic Query Processing using Associative Computing

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

DBH 4011,

23 April 2021

Jerry Power (I3 Systems): Managing Digital Flows in a Data Driven World

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Zoom,

02 April 2021

Phil Bernstein (MSR): Adding Data Management to Orleans – A Journey

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Zoom,

20 November 2020

Yiming Lin (UCI): LOCATER – Cleaning WiFi Connectivity Datasets for Semantic Localization

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

https://uci.zoom.us/j/95066121155,

23 October 2020

Karthik Ranganathan: YugabyteDB – Bringing Together the Best of Amazon Aurora and Google Spanner

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

16 October 2020

Aaron J. Elmore: CrocodileDB – Resource Efficient Database Execution

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

https://uci.zoom.us/j/92895672890,

27 April 2020

Lei Cao: Toward an End-to-end Anomaly Discovery Paradigm

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

20 April 2020

Redesigning Storage Systems for Future Workloads, Hardware, and Performance Requirements (CS Faculty Candidate Seminar)

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 3011,

17 April 2020

David Lomet: Better Database Cost/Performance via Programmable SSD Batched I/O

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 3011,

14 April 2020

Babak Salimi: Causal Inference for Responsible Data Science

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

https://uci.zoom.us/j/232157494,

28 February 2020

Pat Helland (Salesforce.com) : Depending on Appending

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

DBH 3011,

25 February 2020

Dr. Alfred Spector(Two Sigma) : Opportunities and Perils of Data Science: A Roadmap (ICS Distinguished Lecture)

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

21 February 2020

Systems and ML at RISELab (CS Distinguished Seminar Series)

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

14 February 2020

Effective Filters and Linear Time Verification for Tree Similarity Joins

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

DBH 3011,

07 February 2020

Event Detection with Temporal Predicates

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

DBH 3011,

31 January 2020

Building Personal Chronicle of Life Events (Final Defense)

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

30 January 2020

A Theoretical View of Distributed Systems (CS Distinguished Seminar Series)

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

DBH 6011,

24 January 2020

LSM-based storage techniques: a tutorial

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

10 January 2020

Scalable Programming: Progress, Prospects and Challenges (CS/NetSys Seminar)

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

13 December 2019

Scalable transaction and polystore data management in LeanXcale

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

DBH 5011,

06 December 2019

AquaEIS: Middleware Support for Event Identification in CommunityWater Infrastructures

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 3011,

22 November 2019

Texera: Supporting Big Data Analytics for Domain Experts through GUI-based workflows

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 3011,

15 November 2019

Multistage Adaptive Load Balancing in Big Active Data Publish Subscribe Systems

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 3011,

08 November 2019

Gift Sinthong: AsterixDB Meets Data Science

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

DBH 4011,

09 August 2019

Michal Shmueli-Scheuer : Conversational bots for customer support

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

DBH 4011,

31 May 2019

Pat Helland: There’s No Substitute for Interchangeability

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

DBH 3011,

21 March 2019

Fatemeh Nargesian: Data Enrichment for Data Science

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

DBH 3011,

18 March 2019

Xiangyao Yu: Transaction Processing at Scale

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 3011,

08 February 2019

Prof. Sang-Woo Jun: Lowering the cost of large-scale data analytics via efficient use of flash storage

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

DBH 3011,

01 February 2019

Prof. Jeff Ullman: Data Science: Is it Real?

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,

25 January 2019

David Lomet (Microsoft Research): How Data Caching Systems Succeed

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

DBH 4011,

07 December 2018

Vinayak Borkar (FireEye Inc.): The X15 Machine Data Management Platform

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

DBH 4011,

16 November 2018

Dr. Andrey Balmin and Mayank Pradhan (Workday): Workday Prism Analytics: Unifying Interactive and Batch Data Processing Using Apache Spark

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

DBH 3011,

02 November 2018

Sushant Jain : Large scale and low latency data distribution from database to servers

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

DBH 6011,