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Papers, awards and group updates

2026

  1. Award

    Samsara, our multimodal super-optimizer demo, wins Best Demo Award at VLDB 2026 🎉

    Recognized among all demonstrations at VLDB 2026 for showing how Samsara optimizes multimodal stream processing queries in real time.

  2. Demo

    Samsara demo accepted at VLDB 2026

    A live demo of Samsara, the multimodal stream processing prototype introduced in our EDBT 2026 vision paper.

  3. Workshop

    Co-organized the aiDM workshop at SIGMOD 2026

    Program chair for the Ninth International Workshop on Exploiting Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Data Management, co-located with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2026 in Bengaluru, India.

  4. Paper

    EcoLLM accepted at aiDM@SIGMOD 2026

    A workload-centric benchmark for studying the energy-aware trade-offs of LLMs in data-processing tasks, showing that energy efficiency and task effectiveness are not aligned.

  5. Appointment

    Joined Ruhr-Universität Bochum as Junior Professor of Databases and Information Systems

    I am building a research group on next-generation data systems that combine classical data system principles with modern AI techniques. Openings for PhD students and student assistants will be announced here.

  6. Paper

    Towards Multimodal Stream Processing Systems presented at EDBT 2026

    A vision for streaming systems that treat multimodal LLMs as first-class operators, so queries can run in real time over text, images, audio and sensor data together.

  7. Paper

    IMPACT accepted at AAAI 2026 (Student Abstract)

    A scalable framework for rapid traffic incident analysis over existing CCTV infrastructure, pairing real-time key-frame filtering with multimodal LLM causal reasoning.

2025

  1. Papers

    Two papers on learned cost models in PVLDB 2025: Opening the Black-Box and Learned Cost Models for Query Optimization

    Opening the Black-Box: Explaining Learned Cost Models for Databases brings explainability techniques to learned cost models, and Learned Cost Models for Query Optimization: From Batch to Streaming Systems carries them over to streaming workloads.

  2. Paper

    How Good are Learned Cost Models, Really? published at SIGMOD 2025

    A study of learned cost models on the query optimization tasks they are meant to support, rather than on estimation accuracy alone.

  3. Award

    Named an Athene Young Investigator at TU Darmstadt

    The programme supports early-career researchers in leading their own junior research group.

  4. Paper

    Dema presented at EDBT 2025

    Decentralized window aggregation for non-decomposable quantile functions, cutting the network overhead of centralized aggregation in IoT networks.

2024

  1. Paper

    PDSP-Bench presented at TPCTC 2024

    A benchmarking system for parallel and distributed stream processing, built to make performance results across systems and placements comparable.

  2. Papers

    Two papers at IEEE ICDE 2024

    ZEROTUNE learns zero-shot cost models for parallelism tuning in stream processing, and COSTREAM predicts operator placement costs in edge-cloud environments.