Ugur Cetintemel
Professor
Computer Science
Brown University
Box 1910, 115 Waterman Street
Room 473, CIT building
Providence, RI 02912
Voice: + 1 401 863 7601
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)
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
S-Store: A Streaming NewSQL System for Big Velocity Applications (PVLDB'14)
C-MR: Continous Map-Reduce on Multi-Core Processors (MapReduce'12)
Simultaneous Equation Systems for Query Processing on Continuous-Time Data Streams (ICDE'08)
Fast and Highly-Available Stream Processing over Wide-Area Networks (ICDE'08)