2 #Postdoc positions at TU Wien (Vienna, Austria) 1️⃣ Data Warehousing & System Performance jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/259680 2️⃣ Natural Language Interfaces, LLMs, Exploratory Data Access jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/259683 Appl. deadline: Nov 13, 2025 Details: dmki-tuwien.github.io/jobs.html @dmki.bsky.social

[not work] Earlier this month, I was at an old friend’s wedding, which was a very happy occasion. Such occasions are also where I hear too many people wishing the same happy ending for me. However, I also wish to root for alternative happy endings. distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/10/chil...

The accepted papers for CIDR 2026 are up! I'm looking forward to "I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server" and "Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control" cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pap...

There was collaboration attempt between CMU, Tsinghua, Meta, CWI, Nvidia, Voltron, & SpiralDB. But then lawyers got involved and it fell apart. Everyone released their own format: → Meta Nimble: github.com/facebookincu... → CWI FastLanes: github.com/cwida/FastLa... → SpiralDB Vortex: vortex.dev

I'm hiring PhDs through the ELLIS PhD program for research on table representation learning to democratize insights from tabular data! Info: trl-lab.github.io/open-positio... Apply: apply.ellis.eu (31 Oct) Join us in beautiful Amsterdam at @cwi-amsterdam.bsky.social & @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social ✨

Two PhD Opportunities at BIFOLD / #TUBerlin : 1x #ML #XAI #GNN; Group suvised by KR Müller 1x #DBS #BDA; Group supervised by V Markl www.bifold.berlin/about-us/opp... #PhDSky #fundedPhD #doctoral #researcher #sciencejobs #Stemjobs #academicjobs #MLSky @datasciencejobscom.bsky.social

📢📢 The September 2025 issue of SIGMOD Record is out, so is the Reminiscences column. Thank you, Viktor Leis, Anja Gruenheid, @senorcarbone.bsky.social, and @elenitz.bsky.social for the great contributions! pdf --> sigmodrecord.org/publications...

[not work] The last post already had some recollections of VLDB 2021, so I decided to continue those recollections. distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

This Wednesday, 24 September 2025 at 14:30, our Professor Luca Aiello @lajello.bsky.social will give his inaugural lecture in Auditorium 0 at the IT University in Copenhagen! en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Pr...

Next week is the start of @db.cs.cmu.edu's latest seminar series: Future Data Systems @samarchdb.bsky.social and I are hosting speakers from leading systems in the datalake / lakehouse space. Mondays @ 4:30pm ET via Zoom. Open to the public. Videos posted to YouTube: db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/fal...

I'm hiring a postdoc at ITU Copenhagen with experience in NLP, who is keen on improving citizens' experience of health emergency triage in an exciting project with the Danish emergency helpline and the University of Copenhagen. Knowledge of Danish is helpful. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

[not work] A post for all the times that we feel like we need a break. distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/09/when...

Congrats to Marcel Weisgut for his first VLDB paper!! 🎉🎉

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

Big congrats to our postdoc @elisabassignana.bsky.social for the well deserved Social Impact award at #ACL2025NLP!!

[not work] Another visit to Turkey is over. As usual, I was asked several times when I would be back for good. Hence, the trigger for this month’s post. distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/07/bad-...

As more engineers use coding agents professionally, the traditional junior engineering mentorship model delays two skills they need to be successful with agents. Junior engineers need earlier introductions to task definition and code review. I wrote about that here: blog.marcua.net/2025/07/21/m...

Thank you @bifold.berlin for the feature! @hpi.bsky.social #SpatialAnalytics #LargeScaleData #WomenInSTEM

On Thursday, @oovcharenko.bsky.social will present her research on "scSSL-Bench: Benchmarking Self-Supervised Learning for Single-Cell Data". This paper is joint work with ETH Zuerich and was selected as a spotlight poster: icml.cc/virtual/2025... (2/3)

The Data Systems Lab is seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join our team and work on foundation models for data compression.

The June 2025 issue of SIGMOD Record is out, so is the Reminiscences column. Thank you, Zoi Kaoudi, Fatemeh Nargesian, and Niv Dayan for the contributions! sigmodrecord.org/publications...

On the train to Berlin, looking forward to @sigmod2025.bsky.social ! Following the schedule, ... (0) I have a panel participation at the MIDAS workshop on Sunday at 15:30 on Data & GenAI. Thanks, Tilmann Rabl, for the invitation. 👇

As I was preparing the June 2025 issue of SIGMOD Record's Reminiscences column, I realized that I haven't advertised the previous issue. So, belated thanks to Vanessa Braganholo and Martin Hentschel for their contributions to the December 2024 issue. sigmodrecord.org/publications...

Join us for discussions and talks on data management aspects for end-to-end ML on 27 June at @deem-workshop.bsky.social in Berlin. Keynotes by @pinartozun.bsky.social and @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social 🤩 Check the full schedule deem-workshop.github.io#schedule & proceedings dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

Join us - we have four open positions for doctoral/postdoctoral researchers at BIFOLD, doing cutting edge research in data management and machine learning as well as their intersections. More information: www.bifold.berlin/about-us/opp...

📢 We're hiring a #PhD student at @tuwien.at for a project on Knowledge-Graph driven Factuality and Explainability in LLMs for conversational data analytics. 🌍 Funded by #MSCA #ARMADA_DN 📅 Apply by June 30, 2025 🔗 lnkd.in/dX2ZWtj8 #LLM #KnowledgeGraphs #Factuality #DataAnalytics

[not work, but still work] My dear colleague Veronika got promoted to a full professor at ITU in April 2025 and had her inaugural lecture yesterday. I was asked to say a few words about her before her speech. Here is the write-up I had for those words. distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/06/inau...

Som yngre forsker blev Veronika Cheplygina engang spurgt, hvornår hun ville begynde at lave "rigtig forskning" 😕 ...Hendes ”ikke rigtige forskning” har nu gjort hende til professor på ITU. Stort tillykke med udnævnelsen! 👏🥳

We have a PhD opening in Berlin on "Responsible Data Engineering", with a focus on data preparation for ML/AI systems. This is a fully-funded position with salary level E13 at the newly founded DEEM Lab, as part of @bifold.berlin . Details available at deem.berlin#jobs-2225

[not work] I have been wanting to write about Pedro Almodóvar for a while. Aiming for Mother’s Day seemed like the right thing to do. distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/05/all-...

Open PhD position in the Systems Group! Focus is on using FPGAs (e.g., in Smart SSDs or Smart NICs) to address the divide between data growth and CPU stagnation as part of the recently launched CHORYS EU project. Apply now; deadline is 13.05.2025! www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU...?

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📢 📢 Pamela Delgado (HES-SO, Switzerland) has a fully-funded PhD position on efficient GPU resource management for deep learning! My team @itu.dk is looking forward to collaborating with her in this project! For more info on the position, see the image and the link: www.jobup.ch/en/jobs/deta...

Earlier this week, my 2nd PhD student, Ehsan Yousefzadeh-Asl-Miandoab, defended his thesis. Big congrats to him for a well-deserved PhD degree!! Thanks a lot to his committee Eiko Yoneki, Yongluan Zhou, and Zoi Kaoudi for all the feedback & questions! 👇

"Ikke et ondt ord om beskyttelse af personfølsomme data, men som mange vil vide, besværliggør det også datadeling til helt legitime og endda altruistiske formål." Ny teknologi gør det muligt at behandle data lokalt - tilmed hurtigere, billgere og mindre energitungt 💻☘️ 👇 finans.dk/debat/ECE180...

The RAD team (rad.itu.dk) will be at EuroSys/ASPLOS conference doing three work-in-progress presentations on Monday. We will make the presentations available after the conference. Looking forward to meeting the community there! More info in the thread. 👇

🚨 JOBS 🚨Do you want to use you Data Science skills for the greater good? Come and join the Data Science Section at ITU and the @nerdsitu.bsky.social group to work on Data Science for epidemic preparedness. Both PhDs and postdoc positions are available. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

I am recruiting 2 PhD students for Fall'25 @csaudk.bsky.social to work on bleeding-edge topics in #NLProc #LLMs #AIAgents (e.g. LLM reasoning, knowledge-seeking agents, and more). Details: www.cs.au.dk/~clan/openings Deadline: May 1, 2025 Please boost! cc: @aicentre.dk @wikiresearch.bsky.social

[not work] Belated International Women’s Day post, on anger. distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/03/keep...

Excited for this year’s edition of the data management for ML workshop co-located with SIGMOD in Berlin! Besides recent work, we’ll host @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social and @pinartozun.bsky.social 🚀 Feeling inspired by DeepSeek’s specialized file system? Share your latest work: deem-workshop.github.io!

Reminder for this PhD position! The application deadline is **March 26**!

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.

På taget af ITU står en server drevet af solceller ☀️ Den er del af et kunstprojekt, som stiller spørgsmålstegn ved forestillingen om den digitale udviklings ubegrænsede ressourcer. Udstilling "Within Limits" åbner 7. marts, og alle er velkomne! Læs mere her 👉 itu.dk/Om-ITU/Press...

[not work] For the first blog post of this year, I was debating between a couple of different topics, but then David Lynch died. So, here we go. distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

📢📢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.

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

📢📢 Have a PhD position on the IO-path of deep learning, co-funded by Innovation Fund Denmark. Selected candidate will be affiliated with Samsung Research Denmark and IT University of Copenhagen. Supervised by Vivek Shah, Javier González, and me. More details at www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...