Business analysts to legal scholars want to use ML to understand their unstructured data. But it’s costly and difficult. We’re announcing AIDB, an open-source framework that makes analyzing unstructured data as simple as running a SQL query! medium.com/@danieldkang/2… 🧵 1/7

Excited to be a part of this incredibly diverse team! We're developing an open knowledge graph focusing on researchers, topics, and organizations to enhance research collaboration. Learn more about our project here: tinyurl.com/3nw48pm9.

Super excited🤩to start as the co-founder and CEO of a stealth-mode generative AI startup that is revolutionizing AI product reliability and security! Evaluating LLM-based AI products and securing them in production is the missing piece of the puzzle in the enterprise adoption of

I enjoyed my day delivering an invited talk at Lincoln Laboratory #RAAINS on how “The DoD is Doing it Wrong” in understanding human-machine teaming. Lincoln Laboratory helped me launch my faculty career during my “postdoc” with them and am grateful for their friendship in supporting the DoD. 🙏

I am looking to recruit postdocs and students of all levels (undergrads, masters, PhDs) to work in my lab. Looking for people excited to work on projects in Data Management, Responsible Data Science, Causal Inference and Machine Learning. More Details ⬇️

Last month the "DB Research Meeting" was held @mitcsail, hosted by Sam Madden and Natassa Ailamaki (🙏). An encounter of the who's who in data systems research. I warned for the declining impact of DB research & pitched better incentives for system work: bit.ly/dbmeeting-boncz

📢 I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students interested in tackling data management challenges in ML lifecycles. Check out what our lab is up to: kexinrong.github.io/lab/. Interested? Apply to Georgia Tech (gradapp.gatech.edu/apply/) by Dec 15 & mention my name in the application.

r📢 I am hiring PhD students for my new lab Georgia Tech Georgia Tech School of Computer Science focused on networked systems. Work with an amazing set of people in the vibrant city of Atlanta! Apply by Dec 15. Kindly spread the word! 🙏#AcademicTwitter

I'm looking to recruit PhD students to join Georgia Tech to work with me on data aspects of core machine learning starting Fall 2024. If interested, please consider applying by the December 15 deadline to the ML PhD program or the CS PhD program (links on my webpage).

Happy new year! The December 2023 issue of SIGMOD Record is just out! It has a medley of articles including the results of the recent survey of peer reviewing processes in the DB community. Check all of them out at sigmodrecord.org/sigmod-record-…

The first round of SIGMOD 2025 abstract deadlines is this Wednesday, January 10, at 23:59 AoE. Full paper due one week later. Please send your best work! There are a number of procedural changes this year, please have a close look at the CfP: 2025.sigmod.org/calls_papers_s… 1/2

Thrilled to tie with Conor Power for best talk at the CIDR 2024 Gong Show!! We are now proud owners of movie posters autographed by the “King of Databases” aka Mike Stonebraker. Thank you Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) for organizing!

some fun topics I'd love to discuss: - is big data really dead? DuckDB - vector search as a plugin or a database? - scale out vs scale up? ... Next Thursday!

Berkeley Data Systems and Foundations team were a big presence at CIDR 2025 #cidr24 including two talks and two gong show wins. Happy to reunite with alumni and the godfather himself, Mike Stonebraker. Good times! UC Berkeley EECS UC Berkeley UC Berkeley EPIC Lab UC Berkeley Sky

💯 We had a blast hosting the webinar on how to build secure RAG apps with LlamaIndex 🦙, Lighthouz AI (YC S24), and AI at Meta Llama Guard, with speaker  Wenqi Glantz 👉 ​Code walkthrough: towardsdatascience.com/jump-start-you… ​ 👉 Code to run the Llama Packs, generate benchmark test sets and

📢📢 Announcement: #VLDB2025 will be held in London 🇬🇧! Dive into all the details on our official site: vldb.org/2025/. We look forward to seeing you in London. Please spread the word! 🔥🔥

#VLDB2025 (PVLDB Volume 18) is now open for research track submissions! 🚀 Submit your work by the 1st of each month (5 p.m. PT). For more information and submission guidelines, visit: vldb.org/2025/?call-for….

🚀Ready to submit your next great idea to PVLDB 2025? Pay attention to these guidelines from the PC co-chairs Nesime Tatbul and Data Intelligence Institute of Paris. More details here: vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/…. We are looking forward to your submissions! 💡🎉 #VLDB2025

🔔 Ready for #VLDB2025? Secure your spot now! 🔗 Register here: vldb.org/2025/?info-reg… 📌 Each research/industrial paper requires an in-person author registration.

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