UW DB Affiliates Workshop 2025

When:

Friday, November 21, 2025

Where:

Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering

Gates Commons, Room CSE691

Paul G. Allen Center

185 E Stevens Way NE

Seattle, WA 98195-2350

Agenda:

8:30 am - 9:00 am: Coffee & Tea

9:00 am - 9:05 am: Welcome by Magda Balazinska

9:05 am - 10:00 am: Invited Talk by Prof. Luke Zettlemoyer

Title: Mixed-modal Language Modeling

10:00 am - 10:30 am: BREAK

10:30 am - 12:00 pm: Session 1: Agentic DBMS Stack (session chair: Dan Suciu)

Topic: How should we be redesigning DBMSs in a world where most requests come from agents rather than traditional applications or users?

• Talk 1: Redesigning DBMSs for Agents (David Alexander)

• Talk 2: Agentic Approach to Verifying Claims About a Relational Database (Michael Theologitis)

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: LUNCH

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Session 2: Multimodal DBMSs and Leveraging AI Hardware (session chair: Magda Balazinska)

Topic: Advances in GenAI have opened the door to practical multimodal DBMSs. It has also spurred innovation in new hardware in support of AI. How should we redesign DBMSs in this new context?

• Talk 1: From Video DBMS to Multimodal, Explainable DBMS (Enhao Zhang and Guorui Xiao)

• Talk 2: Recent Theory Results on Query Processing (Dan Suciu)

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm: BREAK

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Session 3: Human AI Interaction (session chair: Leilani Battle)

GenAI can accomplish a variety of data science tasks across tools and analysis contexts. However, users still struggle to communicate their domain knowledge, preferences, and values to models to facilitate task automation. How can we enhance human-AI interactions to foster tighter collaboration between GenAI and its users?

• Talk 1: Towards Automatic, Interactive Data Visualization and Analysis with AI (Will Wang)

• Talk 2: Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Users and Agents (Moe Kayali)