DBGroup Weekly Meeting and Seminars
The DB group's weekly meetings are used to discuss administrative issues, plan research, as a paper reading group, and for research presentations.
2023 Fall
In 2023 Fall we are meeting Thursdays at 12pm-1pm in online and Boris's office.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/30 | 12pm-1pm | Ziyu Liu | online and Boris's office | Paper Review | |
| 11/30 | 12pm-1pm | Pengyuan Li | online and Boris's office | Paper Review | |
| 11/20 | 12pm-1pm | Daniel Lee | online and Boris's office | Paper Review | |
| 11/20 | 12pm-1pm | Chenjie Li | online and Boris's office | Fast Algorithms for Denial Constraint Discovery | Paper Review |
| 10/12 | 12pm-1pm | Su Feng | online and Boris's office | Overview over Abstract Interpretation with Zonotopes | Paper Review |
| 10/05 | 12pm-1pm | online and Boris's office | Paper Review | ||
| 09/28 | 12pm-1pm | online and Boris's office | Research Discussion | ||
| 09/21 | 12pm-1pm | online and Boris's office | Research Discussion |
2023 Spring
In 2023 Spring we are meeting Mondays at 5pm-6pm in online and Boris office.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/24 | 5pm-6pm | Daniel Lee | online and Boris office | Paper Review | |
| 04/10 | 5pm-6pm | Chenjie Li | online and Boris office | HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference | Paper Review |
| 04/03 | 5pm-6pm | Su Feng | online and Boris office | Efficient Management of Uncertain Data | Thesis Dry-run |
| 03/20 | 5pm-6pm | Pengyuan Li | online and Boris office | Algorithms for Deferred View Maintenance | Paper Review |
| 03/13 | 5pm-6pm | Ziyu Liu | online and Boris office | A Scalable Hash Ripple Join Algorithm | Paper Review |
| 02/27 | 5pm-6pm | Su Feng | online and Boris office | A Paper That is Currently Reviewed | Paper Review |
| 02/20 | 5pm-6pm | online and Boris office | Research Discussion |
2022 Fall
In 2022 Fall we are meeting Mondays at 5pm-6pm in online and Boris office.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/14 | 5pm-6pm | Su Feng | online and Boris office | Paper Review | |
| 11/07 | 5pm-6pm | Pengyuan Li | online and Boris office | Paper Review | |
| 10/24 | 5pm-6pm | Ziyu Liu | online and Boris office | Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks | Paper Review |
| 10/17 | 5pm-6pm | Daniel Lee | online and Boris office | Paper Review | |
| 10/03 | 5pm-6pm | Chenjie Li | online and Boris office | Complaint-driven Training Data Debugging for Query 2.0 | Paper Review |
| 09/26 | 5pm-6pm | online and Boris office | Everybody presents and overview of their research | Research Discussion |
2022 Spring
In 2022 Spring we are meeting Mondays at 5pm-6pm in online.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/02 | 5pm-6pm | online | |||
| 04/25 | 5pm-6pm | Felix Campbell | online | Efficient Answering of Historical What-if Queries | Conference paper Dry-run |
| 04/18 | 5pm-6pm | Daniel Lee | online | Extracting Equivalent SQL from Imperative Code in Database Applications | Paper Review |
| 04/11 | 5pm-6pm | online | |||
| 04/04 | 5pm-6pm | Chenjie Li | online | LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Searchi | Paper Review |
| 03/28 | 5pm-6pm | Pengyuan Li | online | Fine-grained Partitioning for Aggressive Data Skipping | Paper Review |
| 03/21 | 5pm-6pm | Ziyu Liu | online | Overcoming Limitations of Sampling for Aggregation Queries | Paper Review |
| 03/07 | 5pm-6pm | Su Feng | online | A unified approach to ranking in probabilistic databases | Paper Review |
| 02/28 | 5pm-6pm | online | Zhengjie Miao (Duke), title: Hands-on/hands-off: Helping Users Work with Data Science Pipelines | Job Talk Dry Run | |
| 02/21 | 5pm-6pm | Qitian Zeng | online | Generating Optimal Plans for Boolean Expressions | Paper Review |
| 02/14 | 5pm-6pm | online | |||
| 02/07 | 5pm-6pm | online | Group Research Discussion | Research Talk | |
| 01/31 | 5pm-6pm | online | Group Research Discussion | Research Talk | |
| 01/24 | 5pm-6pm | online |
2021 Fall
In 2021 Fall we are meeting Mondays at 5pm-6pm in online.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 5pm-6pm | Md Kamrul Hasan | online | Paper Review | |
| 11/15 | 5pm-6pm | Daniel Lee | online | POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse | Paper Review |
| 11/10 | 3pm-4pm | Su Feng | online | Efficient Management of Uncertain Data | Comprehensive Dry Run |
| 11/08 | 5pm-6pm | Xing Niu | online | Integrating Provenance Management and Query Optimization | Defense Dry Run |
| 11/01 | 5pm-6pm | Felix Campbell | online | Incremental, Iterative Data Processing With Timely Dataflow | Paper Review |
| 10/25 | 5pm-6pm | Ziyu Liu | online | Combining Aggregation and Sampling (Nearly) Optimally for Approximate Query Processing | Paper Review |
| 10/18 | 5pm-6pm | Pengyuan Li | online | Join Index, Materialized View and Hybrid-Hash Join: A Performance Analysis | Paper Review |
| 10/04 | 5pm-6pm | Chenjie Li | online | Why Should I Trust You? Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier | Paper Review |
| 09/27 | 5pm-6pm | Su Feng | online | Spatiotemporal aggregate computation: a survey | Paper Review |
| 09/20 | 5pm-6pm | Md Kamrul Hasan | online | Automatic Error Correction Using the Wikipedia Page Revision History | Research Presentation |
| 09/20 | 5pm-6pm | Qitian Zeng | online | Adaptive Execution of Compiled Queries | Paper Review |
| 09/13 | 5pm-6pm | online | |||
| 08/30 | 5pm-6pm | online |
2021 Spring
In 2021 Spring we are meeting Wednesdays at 4pm-5pm in online.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/29 | 4pm-5pm | Daniel Lee | online | Compiling PL/SQL Away | Paper Review |
| 04/22 | 4pm-5pm | Chenjie Li | online | Casual Relational Learning | Paper Review |
| 04/15 | 4pm-5pm | Qitian Zeng | online | Adaptive Execution of Compiled Queries | Paper Review |
| 04/01 | 4pm-5pm | Xing Niu | online | DeepSea: self-adaptive data partitioning and replication in scalable distributed data systems | Paper Review |
| 03/25 | 4pm-5pm | Ziyu Liu | online | Statistical Analysis of Sketch Estimators | Paper Review |
| 03/18 | 4pm-5pm | Su Feng | online | Overview of Top-k Queries over Uncertain Data | Paper Review |
| 03/11 | 4pm-5pm | Pengyuan Li | online | Join Indicies | Paper Review |
2020 Fall
In 2020 Fall we are meeting Wednesdays at 3:30-4:30pm in SB233.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/25 | 3:30-4:30pm | Daniel Lee | SB233 | Pushing Data-Induced Predicates Through Joins in Big-Data Clusters | Paper Review |
| 11/11 | 3:30-4:30pm | Ziyu Liu | SB233 | DeepDB: learn from data, not from queries! | Paper Review |
| 11/04 | 3:30-4:30pm | Pengyuan Li | SB233 | DBToaster: Higher-order delta processing for dynamic, frequently fresh views | Paper Review |
| 10/28 | 3:30-4:30pm | Chenjie Li | SB233 | Efficient Mining of Emerging Patterns: Discovering Trends and Differences | Paper Review |
| 10/21 | 3:30-4:30pm | SB233 | Research lightning talks | Research Talk | |
| 10/07 | 3:30-4:30pm | Qitian Zeng | SB233 | Efficiently compiling efficient query plans for modern hardware + LLVM Introduction | Paper Review |
| 09/30 | 3:30-4:30pm | Xing Niu | SB233 | Containment paper (TBA) | Paper Review |
| 09/23 | 3:30-4:30pm | Su Feng | SB233 | Semantics of Ranking Queries for Probabilistic Data and Expected Ranks | Paper Review |
| 08/26 | 3:30-4:30pm | Boris Glavic | SB233 | start of the semester | Topic Talk |
2020 Spring
In 2020 Spring we are meeting Thursdays at 4:30-5:30pm in SB233.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/30 | 4:30-5:30pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | Scaling-Up In-Memory Datalog Processing: Observations and Techniques | Paper Review |
| 04/23 | 4:30-5:30pm | Pengyuan Li | SB233 | Maintaining Views Incrementally | Paper Review |
| 04/16 | 4:30-5:30pm | Ziyu Liu | SB233 | Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates | Paper Review |
| 04/09 | 4:30-5:30pm | Su Feng | SB233 | Provenance for Aggregate Queries, Amsterdamer, Yael and Deutch, Daniel and Tannen, Val | Paper Review |
| 04/02 | 4:30-5:30pm | Chenjie Li | SB233 | Informative Summarization of Numeric Data | Paper Review |
| 03/26 | 4:30-5:30pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | Why and Why-not Provenance for Queries with Negation | Thesis Defense Dry-run |
| 03/05 | 4:30-5:30pm | Qitian Zeng | SB233 | Latch-free Synchronization in Database Systems: Silver Bullet or Fool's Gold? | Paper Review |
| 02/26 | 4:30-5:30pm | Xing Niu | SB233 | Semantic data caching and replacement | Paper Review |
| 01/30 | 4:30-5:30pm | Boris Glavic | SB233 | How to do literature search and organize bibliographies | Topic Talk |
| 01/23 | 4:30-5:30pm | Qitian Zeng | SB233 | Reimplementation of GProM's enum_magic.h with preprocessor wizardry | Topic Talk |
2019 Spring
In 2019 Spring we are meeting Tuesdays at 3pm in SB233.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/?? | 3pm | Qitian Zeng | SB233 | Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances | Conference Presentation Dry-run |
| 04/23 | 3pm | Qitian Zeng | SB233 | decide 3/15 | Paper Review |
| 04/16 | 3pm | Ziyu Liu | SB233 | The history of histograms (abridged) | Paper Review |
| 04/10 | 3pm | Bahareh Arab | SB233 | Provenance for Transactional Updates | Thesis Defense Dry-run |
| 04/09 | 3pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | BigDatalog | Paper Review |
| 04/09 | 3pm | Pengyuan Li | SB233 | Of Nests and Trees [Dayal] | Paper Review |
| 03/12 | 3pm | Su Feng | SB233 | Inconsistent query answering | Paper Review |
| 03/05 | 3pm | Bahareh Arab | SB233 | Provsql: Provenance and probability management in postgresql | Paper Review |
| 02/26 | 3pm | Xing Niu | SB233 | Paper Review |
2018 Fall
In 2018 Fall we are meeting Tuesdays at 4pm in SB233.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/27 | 4pm | SB233 | TBA + TBA | Paper Review | |
| 11/?? | 4pm | Xing Niu | SB233 | Provenance-aware Query Optimization | Comprehensive Exam Dry-run |
| 11/13 | 4pm | Pengyuan Li Seokki Lee | SB233 | Algebraic unnesting for nested queries and Query-based Missing Answer | Paper Review |
| 11/06 | 4pm | Bahareh Arab Su Feng | SB233 | TBA + TBA - Machine learning prov + uncertainty | Paper Review |
| 10/30 | 4pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | PUG: A Framework For Efficiently Computing And Summarizing Why And Why-Not Provenance | Comprehensive Exam Dry-run |
| 10/23 | 4pm | Qitian Zeng | SB233 | Aggregation Outlier Explanations | Research Overview |
| 10/09 | 4pm | Xing Niu | SB233 | You Say What, I Hear Where and Why - (Mis-)Interpreting SQL to Derive Fine-Grained Provenance | Paper Review |
2018 Spring
In 2018 Spring we are meeting Wednesday at 4pm in SB233.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr/12 | 4pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | BlinkDB | Paper Review |
| Apr/5 | 4pm | Qitian Zeng | SB233 | TBD | Paper Review |
| Mar/29 | 4pm | Su Feng | SB233 | Libkin | Paper Review |
| Mar/22 | 4pm | Bahareh Arab | SB233 | Tiresisa (How to) | Paper Review |
| Mar/8 | 4pm | Xing Niu | SB233 | Nested Subquery | Paper Review |
2017 Fall
In 2017 Fall we are meeting Thursdays at 4pm in SB233.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov/30 | 04pm | Su Feng | SB233 | m-tables: Representing Missing Data | Paper Review |
| Nov/16 | 04pm | Bahareh Arab | SB233 | Transaction Repair for Multi-Version Concurrency Control | Paper Review |
| Nov/9 | 04pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks | Paper Review |
| Nov/2 | 04pm | Qitian Zeng | SB233 | Paper Review | |
| Oct/26 | 04pm | Xing Niu | SB233 | Skipping-oriented partitioning for columnar layouts | Paper Review |
| Oct/12 | 04pm | Bahareh Arab | SB233 | Reenacting Transactions to Computer Their Provenance | Comprehensive Exam Dry-run |
| Sep/20 | 05pm | Su Feng | SB233 | Uncertainty annotated databases | Oral Exam Dry-run |
2017 Spring
In 2017 Spring we are meeting Wednesdays at 4pm in SB233.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr/05 | 04pm | Xing Niu | SB233 | Provenance-aware Query Optimization (ICDE) | Conference Presentation Dry-run |
| Mar/29 | 04pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | A SQL-Middleware Unifying Why and Why-Not Provenance for First-Order Queries (ICDE) | Conference Presentation Dry-run |
| Mar/22 | 04pm | Bahareh Arab | SB233 | TBA | Paper Review |
| Mar/15 | 04pm | Su Feng | SB233 | TBA | Paper Review |
| Mar/08 | 04pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers | Paper Review |
| Mar/01 | 04pm | Xing Niu | SB233 | Papers about query optimization involving group-by operations. | Paper Review |
2016 Fall
In 2016 Fall we are meeting Wednesdays at 4pm in SB233.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov/30 | 04pm | Bahareh Arab | SB233 | QFix: Diagnosing errors through query histories | Paper Review |
| Nov/16 | 04pm | Xing Niu | SB233 | On Provenance Minimization | Paper Review |
| Nov/09 | 04pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | Selective Provenance for Datalog Programs Using Top-K Queries | Paper Review |
| Nov/02 | 04pm | Boris Glavic | SB233 | Approximate Query Processing | Paper Review |
| Oct/19 | 04pm | Su Feng | SB233 | Lenses: An On-Demand Approach to ETL | Paper Review |
| Oct/05 | 04pm | Bahareh Arab | SB233 | Reenactment for Read-Committed Snapshot Isolation (CIKM) | Conference Presentation Dry-run |
2016 Spring
In 2016 Spring we are meeting Wednesdays at 2pm in SB233.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr/06 | 02pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | Paper Review | |
| Mar/30 | 02pm | Xing Niu | SB233 | Efficient Provenance Storage over Nested Data Collections | Paper Review |
| Mar/23 | 02pm | Bahareh Arab | SB233 | Containment of Conjunctive Queries on Annotated Relations | Paper Review |
| Feb/17 | 02pm | Boris Glavic | SB233 | Administrative | Administrative |
| Jan/27 | 02pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | An Efficient SQL-based Implementation Unifying Why and Why-Not Provenance | Oral Exam Testrun |
| Jan/27 | 01pm | Bahareh Arab | SB233 | Reenacting Transactions to Compute their Provenance | Oral Exam Testrun |
| Jan/20 | 02pm | Boris Glavic | SB233 | Administrative | |
| Jan/13 | 02pm | Boris Glavic | SB233 | Plan for this semester | Administrative |
2015 Fall
In 2015 Fall we are meeting Wednesdays at 1pm in .
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov/18 | 2:30pm | SB233 | A formal approach to finding explanations for database queries | Paper Review | |
| Nov/11 | 2:30pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | Efficiently compiling efficient query plans for modern hardware | Paper Review |
| Oct/28 | 2:30pm | Seokki Lee | SB233 | Cell-based causality for data repairs | Paper Review |
| Oct/07 | 01pm | Interpretable and informative explanations of outcomes. | Paper Review | ||
| Sep/09 | 01pm | Raghav Kapoor | About his internship | Internship Review | |
| Aug/26 | 01pm | Boris Glavic | 1) Linking prospective and retrospective provenance in scripts. 2) Decoupling Provenance Capture and Analysis from Execution. | Paper Review + Administrative |
2015 Summer
In 2015 Summer we are meeting Wednesdays at 1pm in SB106.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July/22 | 01pm | Andrea Cornudella | SB106 | Andrea presents her master thesis done at IIT: Computing Candidate Keys of Relational Operators for Optimizing Rewrite-Based Provenance Computations. | Master Thesis Defence |
| July/01 | 01pm | Xing Niu | SB106 | Trial run for Xing's presentation at TaPP: Interoperability for Provenance-aware Databases using PROV and JSON. | Research Presentation |
| June/24 | 01pm | Boris Glavic | SB106 | Index structures DB Background Introduction | Informative |
| June/10 | 01pm | Boris Glavic | SB106 | Final discussion on topics and groups for BSMP. Also a paper discussion on Causality and responsibility for queries. | Paper Review + Administrative |
| June/03 | 01pm | SB106 | Overview of topics for the BSMP students. | Administrative |
2015 Spring
In 2015 Spring we are meeting Thursdays at 11am in SB233.
| Date | Time | Speakers | Location | Title | Type of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May/11 | 11am | Jason Arnold | SB233 | Jason will present his work on HRDBMS, a distributed database system, in this semester. | Research Presentation |
| Apr/09 | 11am | Xing Niu | SB233 | Why Not?. In Sigmod '09: proceedings of the 35th sigmod international conference on management of data | Paper Review |
| Mar/26 | 11am | Jingyu Zhu | SB233 | Looking inside the black-box: capturing data provenance using dynamic instrumentation | Paper Review |
| Mar/12 | 11am | Seokki Lee | SB233 | Explaining Missing Answers to SPJUA Queries | Paper Review |
| Feb/19 | 11am | Raghav Kapoor | SB233 | Ramp: a system for capturing and tracing provenance in mapreduce workflows | Paper Review |
| Feb/03 | 02pm | Xing Niu | SB228 | Design and Implementation of a Heuristic and Cost-based Optimizer for Rewrite-based Provenance Computation | Oral Exam Testrun |