My colleagues are trying to understand how folks search for “datasets” and “value” them. If you have a few min to contribute your thoughts to this research project, take a look and participate in the survey: lnkd.in/gtsdsZPe

Incredibly honored to join the 2024 #CarnegieFellows! The fellowship will support my research on how people update their views and attitudes in response to the conversations they take part in and the information they engage with online. carnegie.org/awards/honoree… Carnegie Corporation of New York

Great showing from UChicagoCS at CHI!

The best product teams get more done falling in love with problems rather than solutions Learn the grounding and motivations for product thinking in data at Chicago Data Night, featuring Dexter Horthy (dex), cofounder and CEO at metalytics.dev

Join us next week in downtown Chicago. This is going to be great!

Don’t miss Wednesday’s presentation on OSS tools for understanding the value of your data with Dexter Horthy (dex), co-founder and CEO of metalytics.dev on May 22nd!

Great points. Looking forward to reading the paper for more insight. There’s a lot of work on 1) and 3) already and room for improvement too. Curious about the details of 4).

Congratulations to Committee on Data Science faculty and Assistant Professor of Computer Science Raul Castro Fernandez for securing a the prestigious U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant! This grant will support research on incentivizing sharing data Learn more datascience.uchicago.edu/news/assistant…

Congratulations Immanuel Trummer !!

I wrote a quick and (very) informal overview of thew work we are presenting at SIGMOD (SIGMOD/PODS 2025 ) next week. Here's the link: raulcastrofernandez.com/sigmod24/

Excited to join forces with Cloudera to bring Enterprise AI to customers worldwide!

Looking forward to our 3 presentations at #SIGMOD2024: 1. "Responsible Sharing of Spatiotemporal Data" tutorial (w/Raul Castro Fernandez) 2. "Integrating LLMs into Database Systems Education" at DataEd 3. "Guided Querying over Videos using Autocompletion Suggestions" at HILDA

A few of our phenomenal engineers just had their new paper accepted to the 20th anniversary DaMoN Workshop, which is co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2025. We will be presenting it on June 10th! cockroachlabs.com/blog/sigmod-an…

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A new day in #SIGMOD/#PODS 2024. This morning’s program starts with the Best Demo #Award, followed by the #SIGMOD #Test of #Time #Award 👉 PrivBayes: Private Data Release via Bayesian Networks Bayesia by J. Zhang, G. Cormode, C. Procopiuc, D. Srivastava and X. Xiao

Sam Madden: ”The world is the database” Sam Madden SIGMOD/PODS 2025 #SIGMOD2024 🎉

Thanks Andy Pavlo (@[email protected]) for getting this running again!

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

When running SQL workloads in the cloud, how do we optimize for $$$-cost? Arachne, a paper my student Tapan Srivastava is presenting at VLDB 2024 (VLDB 2025 🇬🇧) this week explores this question. Here's a quick summary: raulcastrofernandez.com/arachne-vldb24/

I suspect this is not what you are looking for, but Aaron J Elmore and I built an academic (read: to teach students) database in Rust Language about 4 years ago, which we still use in class and which Aaron J Elmore is doing some research on.