Our very own Professor Khuzaima Daudjee has been named an ACM Distinguished Member​. Khuzaima is recognized for his outstanding scientific contributions to computing​. He designs and builds systems that store and manage data. Congrats, Khuzaima!

Look forward to our first DSG Seminar of 2023 by Yang Cao (Hokkaido University) on “Towards Differentially Private Federated Learning with Untrusted Servers” on Jan 16! If you wish to attend, please register at uwaterloo.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

CS Professor Jimmy Lin (Jimmy Lin) has been named a 2022 ACM Fellow for his contributions to question answering, information retrieval, and natural language processing. Congratulations on this well-deserved and significant recognition, Jimmy! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/jimmy-lin…

Look forward to our next DSG Seminar by Justin Zobel (University of Melbourne) titled “The Getting of Knowledge: Search and the Global Information Ecology” on Feb 1st! If you wish to attend, please register at uwaterloo.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Jeremy Chen, Yuqing Huang and Mushi Wang and Profs Semih Salihoğlu and Ken Salem have received a 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for their paper “Accurate summary-based cardinality estimation through the lens of cardinality estimation graphs.” cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cheriton-…

Looking forward our next upcoming Data Systems Seminar @ University of Waterloo by Jian Pei -- please register here if you would like to remotely attend: uwaterloo.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Congratulations to a DSG PhD graduate Michael Abebe on this prestigious award!

"Data Science–A Systematic Treatment," by M. Tamer @Ozsu University of Waterloo, discusses the scope of #DataScience and highlights aspects that are not part of AI bit.ly/3JqNp5z. Özsu talks about leveraging data and deploying data science in a #video. bit.ly/3NJaToY

We may not get the best of weather in this part of Canada but we sure enjoy it when it's good ☀️! Here are some pics from our picnic in Waterloo park! We pretended to talk about research papers while eating delicious burgers from @queryproc and Alex! 🍔🌭 #UWaterlooDSG

Best Papers (2/3) 📢S5: Interpretability & Analysis (Poster) 📌"What the DAAM: Interpreting Stable Diffusion Using Cross Attention" by Raphael Tang et al. 🔎 How DAAM enables visuolinguistic interpretation of large diffusion models🌌✨ 🔗aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.… 🧵(4/5)

Congratulations to University Professor M. Tamer Özsu on receiving the 2024 IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering Education Award for his fundamental contributions to data management and data science pedagogy. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/m-tamer-o…

University Professor M. Tamer Özsu has been honoured with the ACM Presidential Award for his long-standing and significant contributions to the computing field, its scientific community and to ACM. Congrats, Tamer, on your latest recognition! cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/m-tamer-o…

So thrilled to welcome Professor Renée J. Miller to DSG Data Systems Group @ University of Waterloo. She joined the University of Waterloo in June 2024 as the Cheriton School of Computer Science's first Canada Excellence Research Chair. We're excited to have her here! uwaterloo.ca/computer-scien…

Warmest welcome to Dr. Xiao Hu (cs.uwaterloo.ca/~xiaohu/), our newest faculty member of the DSG! Xiao's research interests are database theory and its applications to practical database systems. We look forward to her valuable contributions to our community.

🎉Professor Xi He has won Waterloo Mathematics's Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award. 🔏She is a world-renowned privacy and security researcher, impacting various fields like military operations and healthcare. 🔗Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-scien… #UWaterloo #UWaterlooProud

Looking forward to our next upcoming Data Systems Seminar Data Systems Group @ University of Waterloo by Karima Echihabi!

Congratulations to Professor Ihab Ilyas Ihab Ilyas, who received C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award for advancing computer science! uwaterloo.ca/data-systems-g…

This year Ontario Database Day (ondbd.ca), a one-day symposium on all things databases, will be hosted at UWaterloo! Present your work, exchange ideas, and network with fellow database enthusiasts.

This year Ontario Database Day (ondbd.ca), a one-day symposium on all things databases, will be hosted at UWaterloo! Register today to attend and learn about the latest advancements in database technology!

Congrats, Prof. Jimmy Lin, named 2024 Fellow of the ACL! uwaterloo.ca/data-systems-g…