Ugur Cetintemel

	Ugur Cetintemel Professor and Department Chair Computer Science Brown University Box 1910, 115 Waterman Street Room 473, CIT building Providence, RI 02912 Voice: + 1 401 863 7601 Fax : + 1 401 863 7657

Research

Brown Data Management Group

Interests

Data management
Data science systems
Distributed systems

Projects

DBPal: Conversational, Natural Language-based Interfaces for Databases
Longview: Supporting and leveraging machine learning in modern data systems
DBNav: Enabling interactive exploration of large datasets
SciDB: Array-oriented DBMS for data-intensive science
Tupleware: Next-gen analytics platform for data-intensive vis and machine learning

Teaching

Service

University:

Department Chair, Computer Science
Executive Committee, Data Science Initiative
Executive Committee, BIBS

PC Co-Chair (Research): VLDB'12, DEBS'10
PC Area Vice-Chair (Streams, Sensors, CEP): ICDE'12, ICDE'08
General Co-Chair: SIGMOD'09
Associate Editor: VLDB Journal, Distributed and Parallel Databases
PC Member: CIDR'13, SIGMOD'11, CIDR'11, VLDB'10, VLDB'09, ICDE'09, CIDR'09

Recent Articles (more complete list at dblp)

Machine Learning for Database Systems

DeepSqueeze: Deep Semantic Compression for Tabular Data (SIGMOD'20)
The Case for a Learned Sorting Algorithm (SIGMOD'20)
A Fully Pluggable NL2SQL Training Pipeline (SIGMOD'20)
DBPAL: Weak Supervision for Learning a Natural Language Interface for Databases (CAST'19)
DBPal: A Learned Natural Language Interface for Database Systems (SIGMOD'18)
Voice-based Data Exploration: Chatting with your Database (SCAI'17)
Making the Case for Query-by-Voice with EchoQuery (SIGMOD16)
Portable Workload Performance Prediction in the Cloud (ICDE'13)
Learning-based Query Performance Modeling and Prediction (ICDE'12)
Performance Prediction for Concurrent Database Workloads (SIGMOD'11)
The Case for Predictive Database Systems: Opportunities and Challenges (CIDR'11)
Database Support for Continuous Prediction Queries over Streaming Data (PVLDB'10)

Data Exploration

Dynamic Query Refinement for Interactive Data Exploration (EDBT'20)
Interactive Search and Exploration of Waveform Data with Searchlight (SIGMOD'16)
Searchlight: Enabling Integrated Search and Exploration over Large Multidimensional Data (PVLDB'15)
Interactive Data Exploration using Semantic Windows (SIGMOD'14)
Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration (CIDR'13)

Modern Hardware for Database Systems

A Morsel-Driven Query Execution Engine for Multi-Cores (VLDB'19)
Revisiting Reuse in Main Memory Database Systems (SIGMOD'17)
SiliconDB: Rethinking DBMSs for Modern Heterogeneous Co-Processor Environments (DaMoN'17)
An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows (PVLDB'15)
Tupleware: "Big" Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters (CIDR'15)

Stream Processing