December 2023
Yuhao graduates with his PhD. Congrats and best wishes, Yuhao!
August 2023
Yannis Papakonstantinou joins Google full time and switches to adjunct faculty at UC San Diego. Best wishes, Yannis!
April 2023
Supun receives the coveted ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award! He is the first recipient in the UCSD DB Lab's history, and this is the first time this award goes to work in the fast-growing arena of ML Systems. Congrats, Supun!
June 2022
Rana, Supun, and Vraj walk at the PhD commencement. Congrats and best wishes to them for their careers!
February 2022
Kabir receives a highly competitive Meta PhD Fellowship, the first UCSD student to receive one in the program's 10-year history; link to announcement
September 2021
Arun is tenured and promoted to Associate Professor.
June 2021
Kabir wins 1st place at the undergraduate level and Side wins 2nd place at the graduate level of the SIGMOD 2021 Student Research Competition. This is the strongest showing ever at the SIGMOD SRC by Database Lab students.
June 2021
Advitya is accorded the HDSI Undergraduate Scholarship Project Award. Kabir is accorded the CSE Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Research. This is the first time these top departmental undergraduate research honors go to Database Lab students.
April 2021
Victor is invited to give a Gems of PODS talk on his early Datalog work.
March 2021
Arun receives the 2021 IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award; link to webpage.
March 2021
Arun receives another VMware Early Career Faculty Grant award and an Amazon Research Award.
January 2021
Advitya, Kabir, and Side are all selected for the second round of the SIGMOD 2021 Student Research Competition.
December 2020
Kabir receives an Honorable Mention for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award; link to announcement.
September 2020
Dr. Babak Salimi joins HDSI as an Assistant Professor. Welcome, Babak!
August 2020
Supun, Arun, and Yannis receive an ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award; link to SIGMOD Rec. special edition.
July 2020
Arun receives a VMware Early Career Faculty Grant award.
June 2020
Arun receives an NSF CAREER Award; link to award abstract.
March 2020
Arun receives a Google Faculty Research Award; link to announcement.
March 2020
New webpage of the Database Lab goes live.
February 2020
Pivotal/VMWare announces the integration of ideas from Project Cerebro into Apache MADlib for Greenplum customers; link to talk.
September 2019
SQL++ commercialized by Amazon as PartiQL; link to news release.
August 2019
Side and Tara receive an inaugural HDSI PhD Fellowship. Side also receives a JSOE PhD Fellowship.
August 2019
Arun receives a Distinguished Reviewer Award from VLDB.
June 2019
Supun, Arun, and Yannis receive an Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award from ACM SIGMOD; link to post.
June 2019
Vraj places second runner up at the ACM SIGMOD Student Research Competition.
June 2019
Arun receives a Distinguished PC Member Award from ACM SIGMOD.
April 2019
Arun receives an Oracle Labs Faculty Research Award.
March 2019
Alin and Victor receive the Test-of-Time Award from ICDT.
February 2019
Arun's book titled "Data Management in ML Systems" is published.
July 2018
Arun receives a Hellman Fellowship.
June 2018
Alin and late alumnus, Alan, receive the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award from ACM PODS.
May 2017
Arun receives a Distinguished PC Member Award from ACM SIGMOD.
March 2017
Arun receives a Google Faculty Research Award; link to announcement.
September 2015
UCSD and Couchbase collaborate on the SQL++ Next-Generation Query Language for Big Data; link to news release.
September 2015
SQL++, Couchbase, and UCSD's FORWARD project covered by Information Week; link to article.
September 2015
SQL++ covered by The Platform; link to article.
2015
Victor is named a member of Academia Europaea.
2015
Victor receives the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award from ACM PODS.
2013
Victor is named AAAS Fellow.
2013
Victor is appointed to an INRIA International Chair.
2010
Victor receives the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award from ACM PODS.
2009
Victor is appointed editor-in-chief of JACM.
2006
Victor is named ACM Fellow.
2006
Alin receives a prestigious Sloan Fellowship.
2004
Alin receives NSF CAREER Award.
2004
Alan receives prestigious Microsoft Research Fellowship.