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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · Aug 14

Congratulations to Sebastian Baunsgaard successfully defending his PhD thesis, "Workload-aware Compressed Linear Algebra for Data-centric Machine Learning Pipelines"

Sebastian is part of the DAMS group (lead: @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social) BIFOLD / @tuberlin.bsky.social

#phd #defended

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · Jun 20

Meet the BIFOLD researchers at #SIGMOD2025 in Berlin! From June 22–27, we’re excited to welcome the global data community and contribute with papers, demos & workshops—plus help shape the event as part of the organizing team. See you there! 🚀 #datamanagement

News www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

SIGMOD 2025 Conference Contributions

BIFOLD researchers will present multiple contributions at the SIGMOD/PODS 2025 conference, scheduled for June 22–27, 2025, in Berlin.

www.bifold.berlin

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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · Apr 12

Successfully defended my PhD yesterday! 🎓 🎉
Special thanks to my mentor Sebastian Möller and professors Sina Zarrieß @clausebielefeld.bsky.social, Christin Seifert, and @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social for being part of my committee.
Will continue working on XAI & NLP as a post-doc at TU Berlin & BIFOLD

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · Mar 25

Here is an additional impression from BTW'25 in Bamberg. I'm terrible at such interviews, but not hiding anything. 😉 Thanks to the organizers for a great conference.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSx4...

BTW 2025: Interview mit Matthias Böhm von der TU Berlin

YouTube video by Universität Bamberg

www.youtube.com

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · Mar 4

A huge thank you to our speakers and everyone who contributed to the great discussions at today’s workshop!

A big shout-out to Manisha Luthra and @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social for co-organizing—always a pleasure working together! 😊

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · Feb 27

Sorry, there were some delays with the submission system, reference implementation and benchmarks, but the setup is on the website now and remaining things will follow in the next days.

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · Feb 14

A postcard from Lausanne - I just returned from the Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD) at EPFL. Thanks to Thaleia Dimitra Doudali and Pamela Delgado for organizing the "AI in Data and Computer Systems" session - it was a pleasure.

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Stefania Dumbrava @sdumbrava.bsky.social · Feb 10

Together with Riccardo Tommasini, we are excited to announce Yuanyuan Tian & Juan Reutter as the keynotes for the Transforming Graph Data Workshop@EDBT/ICDT 2025! 🌟 Join us March 25 in Barcelona 🇪🇸

👉 transforming-graphs-workshop.org
👉 edbticdt2025.upc.edu?contents=reg...

cc: @rictomm.bsky.social

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Stefan Grafberger @stefan-grafberger.com · Feb 7

Please help spread the word by reposting!

We've just created the official DEEM Workshop account: @deem-workshop.bsky.social

DEEM Workshop @ SIGMOD @deem-workshop.bsky.social · Feb 7

The Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning workshop (@deem-workshop.bsky.social) will be back at #SIGMOD2025! ✨

🔗 Check out the CfP: deem-workshop.github.io
📝 Submission deadline: March 21
📢 Notifications: April 25

Join us for the 9th edition in Berlin!

#DEEM2025

SIGMOD/PODS 2025 @sigmod2025.bsky.social · Jan 30

DEEM - The 9th Workshop on End-to-End Data Management is also co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2025. The deadline for papers is March 21st. For more details checkout the website
deem-workshop.github.io

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Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social · Feb 10

📢📢VLDB26 (@vldb.bsky.social) will have a ShadowPC! Apply at forms.office.com/e/XYihKj4UKq by March 1! Great opportunity for folk who are new to the data management community & want to gain paper reviewing experience. More info at application form. Chairs: @zistvan.bsky.social, Tianzheng Wang, & I.

Microsoft Forms

forms.office.com

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · Feb 10

🎥 Review key insights from The Age of AI: Panel Discussion with Sam Altman #OpenAI, Nicole Büttner #MerantixMomentum, Fatma Deniz @tuberlin.bsky.social, and Volker Markl @bifold.berlin discussed AI's opportunities, challenges, and societal impact.

www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · Feb 7

Thanks to Sam, Nicole, Volker, and Fatma for the great panel discussion at TU Berlin & @bifold.berlin today.

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · Jan 28

BIFOLD RSG Lead Matthias Boehm will be a speaker at the "AI in Data and Computer Systems" track of the AMLD - Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL.

@appliedmldays.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social

#AMLDEPFL2025 #DataSystems #ComputerSystems #Innovation

t1p.de/iqhx8

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · Jan 15

I'm very proud of my team - we just completed three great BTW'25 papers (camera-ready versions and reproducibility packages for two of them) as well as the final EU project review meeting of DAPHNE today:
btw2025.gi.de
github.com/damslab/repr...
github.com/daphne-eu/da...

Startseite - btw 2025

btw2025.gi.de

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · Jan 14

Our graduate school has an open call for 10 PhD positions in data management and machine learning (until Feb 03). This is a great opportunity to join one of our groups, sometimes even with co-supervision among multiple groups.

BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · Jan 6

Join BIFOLD as a doctoral student in our Graduate School. Apply until February 03, 2025.

Job ID: www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...

#jobvacancy #jobalert #postdocposition #postdocfellowship
#ScienceJobs #AI #research #Berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social

The Graduate School educates students for the rising worldwide demand for specialists with expertise in Data Management and Machine Learning. With a strong research focus, we are committed to training the next generation of curious and innovative data science professionals - individuals who challenge assumptions, seek answers to critical questions, and uphold ethical standards in their work.

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · Jan 14

Many thanks to our guest Gerardo Vitagliano for his great talk on “Making Data Accessible using LLMs.” 👏 Thanks for the great talk!

@csail.mit.edu @tuberlin.bsky.social @ziamurai.bsky.social @mersault.bsky.social @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · Jan 4

The @sigmod2025.bsky.social Programming Contest goes into another round. We (Bo Tang, Tilmann Rabl, and myself) just published the timeline and task overview:
sigmod-contest-2025.github.io/index.html

Thanks to Carlo Curino and @microsoft.com for the continued support.

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · Dec 16

Proud advisor moment: Today, my first PhD student @arnabphani.bsky.social successfully defended his PhD thesis in front of a great committee of Ana Klimovic, Tilmann Rabl, me, and @mersault.bsky.social (w/ summa cum laude - very good with distinction). Arnab is on the job market, so don't miss out.

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Natacha Crooks @nacrooks.bsky.social · Dec 15

There is a special place in hell for schools that require you to rate applicants across 10 axes for recommendation letters and don't just let you upload the standard PDF.

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · Dec 15

I'm happy to promote the K.I.E.Z. (Künstliche Intelligenz Entrepreneurship Zentrum, linkedin.com/company/kiez...), where I'm also part of the expert network. Startups can get support for Apr-Sep 2025.

Bridge-to-Market: lnkd.in/dSzDTY-n
Accelerator: lnkd.in/dE_WWTct

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Byron Galbraith @intrinsicmode.com · Dec 10

Happy NeurIPS Poster Session is Full day to all who celebrate

Sign from NuerIPS 2019 declaring that the poster session is full

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ewuuu @eugenewu.net · Dec 10

We are excited to be starting a new lab that rethinks the systems, ML, and HCI stack to support agent-based automation! Columbia's PhD deadline is 12/15 -- please share with potential applicants!
columbia-dap-lab.github.io

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · Dec 4

We now extended the deadline of the ML4Sys/Sys4ML@BTW workshop to Dec 15
luthramanisha.github.io/ML4Sys-and-S...

Second Workshop on ML4Sys and Sys4ML

luthramanisha.github.io

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · Nov 30

Happy to share this paper, which was in the making for a while (@arnabphani.bsky.social‬ showed great perseverance and continuously improved the prototype, experiments, and paper presentation).

Arnab Phani @arnabphani.bsky.social · Nov 29

Glad to share, our paper MEMPHIS is accepted at EDBT 2025! 🎉 MEMPHIS extends the LIMA framework and proposes a holistic approach for fine-grained reuse of intermediates and memory management across multiple backends.
Paper: openproceedings.org/2025/conf/ed...

openproceedings.org

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