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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · 7d

I agree as a unit of progress. But it is still integral as a mechanism to learn how to organize thoughts and arguments, and communicate effectively.

ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 18

As an academic who has named papers after the classic mortal kombat ninjas (eugenewu.net/ninjas.html), I am obligated to share that the new Mortal Kombat II trailer IS AMAZING!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9pH...

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 7

6/ Got takes?
📩 DM us or email [email protected]/[email protected]

#SIGMOD2025 #VLDB2025 #databases #AI #academicresearch #CSResearch

ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 7

5/ 📄 Full writeup: wp.sigmod.org?p=3828

🎤 VLDB 2025 sequel panel is coming—with new voices and deeper focus on trade-offs: Shreya Shankar, Gustavo Alonso, Natacha Crooks, Jiannan Wang & Divesh Srivastava.

Panel Summary: Where Does Academic Database Research Go From Here? – ACM SIGMOD Blog

wp.sigmod.org

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 7

4/ Panelists’ spicy ideas: 🌶️

• 8 page SIGMOD papers + a YouTube explainer
• More industry internships to understand "the real world"
• Host “Data + X” workshops in other fields—NOT at SIGMOD

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 7

3/ Academia enables “research as play.”
• But how do we balance that with:
• Real funding constraints
• Recruiting top students
• But how to compete with 600-person industry teams? By picking the right problems

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 7

2/ DB folks still have a massive edge:

• Declarative thinking
• Separation of logical + physical
• Deep systems chops
• But we’re not always in the rooms where AI decisions are made. That needs to change.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 7

1/ Where does *academic* database research go from here—in a world dominated by AI, $100B in private investment, and an NSF budget cut in half? Where should focus go?

At SIGMOD 2025, we hosted a panel to discuss, summarized on the SIGMOD blog: wp.sigmod.org?p=3828

🧵 Key takeaways from the panel:

Panel Summary: Where Does Academic Database Research Go From Here? – ACM SIGMOD Blog

wp.sigmod.org

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 2

Last but not least, the first workshop on data management, process mining, and LLMs! The founder of process mining, Wil van der Aals, as well as Ernesto Damiani, gave exciting keynotes. dbpmworkshop.github.io

Databases x Process Mining Workshop at SIGMOD 2025

dbpmworkshop.github.io

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 2

Eugene Wu

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 2

Along with Raul Castro Fernandez, I also co-organized a lively SIGMOD panel exploring the future of academic database research.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 2

I was delighted to deliver a keynote "A Decade of Systems for Human Data Interaction" at HILDA Workshop. I argue that HILDA is about providing guarantees for **user-facing experiences** -- critical to support the rise of vibe coding and LLMs that are eating UX.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 2

Physical Visualization Design by Yiru Chen et al., lets interface designers focus purely on the visual experience and user interaction of visualization interfaces. PVD automatically assesses if a design can meet interactivity goals synthesizes the client-server architecture to deploy it.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 2

Haneen had a strong presence at ProvWeek: high-performance lineage compression and an in-depth comparison of capture methods. She demo'd FADE, which runs >1M what-if qs/sec in DuckDB to power interactive what-if analytics. It's a DuckDB extension! github.com/haneensa/lin...

GitHub - haneensa/lineage: row-level lineage

row-level lineage. Contribute to haneensa/lineage development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 2

Highlights:

John and Luis received the 10-year Test-of-Time Award for their 2015 paper k-shape

Lampros, myself, & friends at Celonis won DEEM Best Paper for Hierarchical Text Segmentation using LLMs & Best Industry Demo for semantic taxonomy-driven prompt optimization.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jul 2

Columbia's Data Management Group just wrapped up @sigmod2025.bsky.social with a strong showing: 4 papers, 2 demos, a keynote, a tutorial, and a panel. Highlights include a test-of-time award, best paper at DEEM, and best industry demo awards!

A full write up is at: eugenewu.net/general/2025...

Eugene Wu

eugenewu.net

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Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social · Jul 1

The US government is aiming to get rid of a quarter million people involved in science research and education by 2026.

I have no words.

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jun 18

software craftsmanship in action.

Eirik Bakke @ultorg.bsky.social · Jun 18

Ultorg 2.0 is released, with several user-requested features! With conditional formats, you can color rows or cells, or "strike through" a row, based on values or an arbitrary formula condition. (1/6)

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Jun 16

Working on [email protected] keynote slides. Thinking about human data interaction, AI, and a virtuous cycle. Looking forward to seeing folks in a week!

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · May 27

yes! the tldr is compute sufficient statistics for the desired model for each distinct value of a candidate join key. The provider or an LLM identifies join keys offline. arxiv.org/abs/2305.10419

Kitana: Efficient Data Augmentation Search for AutoML

AutoML services provide a way for non-expert users to benefit from high-quality ML models without worrying about model design and deployment, in exchange for a charge per hour ($21.252 for VertexAI). ...

arxiv.org

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · May 27

Making use of existing structured data is super valuable but still an open question. We've been working on closing the loop on table search in large data repos for a while now. The key is to search via the data task rather than keywords or a table

Overview slides: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/unpng...

www.dropbox.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · May 14

the following 30 seconds from perfect movie REAL GENIUS are a rock solid vision of the future of education youtu.be/wB1X4o-MV6o?...

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Apr 24

Almost every db faculty that has received an nsf award ad benefitrd from hector and sylvia’s work. Well deserved!

SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 24

🏆 The 2025 SIGMOD Contributions Award goes to

Hector Munoz-Avila and Sylvia Spengler

Citation:
"For outstanding service to the database community by initiating and supporting research, and for increasing awareness globally about the importance of database innovation."

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Apr 24

Go columbia db! Congrats to luis and papa john!

SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Apr 24

🏆 The ACM SIGMOD Test of time award (2025) goes to

K-shape: Efficient and accurate clustering of time series
John Paparrizos, Luis Gravano

2025.sigmod.org/sigmod_award...

2025.sigmod.org

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Apr 23

Since you are making assumptions about what the reader knows (axes, weird encodings), then if you also assume the reader is already familiar with the points, show an empty image. 1:0

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