The only question reviewers should be asking themselves: "Is the community better off with this paper, or without it?" inappropriate reasons for rejection include: not beating SOTA, bad writing, minor flaws, no theory yet good results, incomplete citations (easily fixed),.....

Excited to share that I’ll start as Professor of Data Systems Technische Universität Nürnberg in early 2024! My research will explore the intersection of data systems and ML. I’ll soon announce PhD and postdoc positions in my group.

The pace of AI is insane. Massive developments this week from Humane, Twitter, Microsoft, Midjourney, Nvidia, OpenAI, Google, Japan, Inflection AI, ChatGPT, and Engineered Arts. Plus, 25 new AI tools. Here's EVERYTHING you need to know and why it's important 🧵:

Your PhD is about the evolution of your mindset. It proceeds through personal research experience, mentorship and development of key skills. This is why PhD in STEM: - is NOT about a thesis (very few people will read it) - is NOT about finish your advisor’s project - is NOT

What are the most influential database papers of all time? Everyone has an opinion, but here's some data! I ran PageRank on the VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR citation graph. Search for a paper, view a specific year, or look up an author's most "influential" papers. rmarcus.info/blog/2023/07/2…

Our tutorial VLDB 2025 🇬🇧 about Databases on Modern Cloud Networks in Granville (Room T, South Tower) will start today at 3.30pm. We will jointly present our tutorial with Alberto Lerner, Dan Ports, @[email protected], Tobias Ziegler & Matthias Jasny. Looking forward to seeing you.

Students of TU Darmstadt , not sure which courses to take? The Systems Group offers one lecture and three seminars in the next semester for those interested in fundamental and advanced topics in Data & AI Systems or Distributed & Networked Systems: informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/systems/teach/…

I am happy to co-chair the DBML workshop IEEE ICDE Conference in 2024 with Ziyu Li TU Delft and Gerardo Vitagliano Hasso-Plattner-Institut. If you work in the intersection of data management and ML, this is a great venue to discuss your ideas: wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/dbml2024 (Submission deadline: 5 Jan 2024)

I would have loved to attend ... but this year I have to skip (sadly). So, anyone who plans to attend NeurIPS Conference: this is a really fun workshop.

It was really great having ⁦amr el abbadi⁩ as a guest for the last two weeks in our ⁦Systems Group @ TU Darmstadt (Moved)⁩ lab. His work on privacy and databases is more relevant than ever! We also had a lot of interesting side discussions on other topics 😊

Last week IEEE ICDE Conference a team lead by senior researcher Manisha Luthra from DFKI and Computer Science, TU Darmstadt Systems Group @ TU Darmstadt (Moved) has presented two papers which pave a novel way for learned cost model-based optimizations for stream processing systems.

Today from 5:00 – 6:30 pm, we will show our CAESURA demo again. Come and see us in SIGMOD/PODS 2025 today if you want to know more on how we use LLMs as query planners for multi-modal data sources with tables, images and text.

I am honored that we just received the best demo award for our demo at SIGMOD/PODS 2025 2024. Congrats to my PhD student Matthias Urban Systems Group @ TU Darmstadt (Moved) for this great work.

🎙️ Exciting Event Tomorrow! Join us onsite for a fascinating BIFOLD Talk by Dr.-Ing. Manisha Luthra Agnihotri, Deputy Head at the DFKI Darmstadt - SAIDE lab and Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Darmstadt. Looking forward to seeing you there! 🚀 bifold.berlin/news-events/ev…

It was a great experience meeting Volker Markl and his group at BIFOLD and TU Berlin. I presented our work on #learned cost models for #streaming #systems and had great interactions and follow-up from the fellows there. Thanks a lot for the invite!

It is a really great honor to receive the LOEWE top professorship for my research on building the next generation of AI-centered database systems: wissenschaft.hessen.de/presse/loewe-s… Many thanks to the State of Hesse & TU Darmstadt as well as hessian.AI and Computer Science, TU Darmstadt.

We Systems Group @ TU Darmstadt (Moved) had a great time last week in our team retreat at Darmstädter Haus in the Austrian Alps discussing the future of AI & cloud data management. Thanks a lot also to our external guests, Norman May and Ulf Brackmann from SAP.

Open postdoc position for researching *personal data markets*. Keywords: data sharing, privacy, responsible data science... If you are interested send me ([email protected]) a paragraph outlining your motivation and any relevant materials, including a CV and one relevant paper

Our ML4Sys and Sys4ML workshop has been accepted to BTW 2025 🎉 Submit your one-page abstracts by December 3 and join us in Bamberg, Bavaria! luthramanisha.github.io/ML4Sys-and-Sys… Big shoutout to Manisha Luthra for organizing! cc Matthias Boehm