News

• May 19, 2019:

  ‘Visual Road: A Video Data Management Benchmark’ has been accepted at SIGMOD 2019. Congrats Brandon Haynes, Amrita Mazumdar, Magdalena Balazinska, Luis Ceze, Alvin Cheung!

• May 18, 2018:

  ‘LightDB: A DBMS for Virtual Reality’ has been accepted at VLDB 2018. Congrats Brandon Haynes, Amrita Mazumdar, Armin Alaghi, Magdalena Balazinska, Luis Ceze, Alvin Cheung!

• April 18, 2018:

  Two of Jennifer Ortiz’s papers got accepted!

  • ‘SLAOrchestrator - Reducing the Cost of Performance SLAs in the Cloud’ at USENIX ATC 2018
  • ‘Learning State Representations for Query Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning’ at the DEEM Workshop, SIGMOD 2018
• April 12, 2018:

  Laurel Orr received a honorable mention for the NCWIT Collegiate Award. Congrats Laurel!

• March 5, 2018:

  Four papers from UWDB got accepted into SIGMOD 2018!

  • ‘HypDB: Detect, Explain And Resolve Bias in OLAP’, Babak Salimi and Dan Suciu
  • ‘Automatically Leveraging MapReduce Frameworks for Data-Intensive Applications’, Maaz Ahmad and Alvin Cheung
  • ‘Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types Using Open-source Code’, Cong Yan
  • ‘FASTER: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates’, Guna Prasaad
• July 19, 2017:

  Our automated solver for SQL, Cosette, has been released!

• June 8, 2017:

  Congratulations to all of our SIGMOD winners!

• May 19, 2017:

  Watch Dylan Hutchison’s recorded talk from the SIGMOD BeyondMR workshop on LaraDB: A Minimalist Kernel for Linear and Relational Algbera

• May 18, 2017:

  Several SIGMOD 2017 Demonstation Awards!
  Shumo Chu, Daniel Li, and Chenglong Wang won the Best Demonstration Award for Demonstration of the Cosette Automated SQL Prover;
  Maaz Ahmad earned a Demonstration Award Honorable Mention for Optimizing Data-Intensive Applications Automatically By Leveraging Parallel Data Processing Frameworks;
  Brandon Haynes and Artem Minyaylov earned a Demonstration Award Honorable Mention for VisualCloud Demonstration: A DBMS for Virtual Reality.

• May 17, 2017:

  Jennifer Ortiz won second place at the SIGMOD Student Reseach Competition.

• May 16, 2017:

  Parmita Mehta, Tomer Kaftan, and many co-authors had their paper Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads accepted into VLDB.

• April 21, 2017:

  Jingjing Wang’s paper on Elastic Memory Management for Cloud Data Analytics is accepted to USENIX 2017

• April 19, 2017:

  Alvin Cheung is among six UW CSE faculty who won NSF CAREER awards

• April 17, 2017:

  Laurel Orr’s paper on Probabilistic Database Summarization for Interactive Data Exploration is accepted to VLDB 2017

• April 9, 2017:

  Magdalena Balazinska received the ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award for the paper Fault-Tolerance in the Borealis Distributed Stream Processing System

• April 7, 2017:

  Shrainik Jain’s paper SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment has been awarded as one of the most reproducible across several criteria from SIGMOD 2016

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