Monday, August 31st, 2026
Room: Commonwealth A
10:45 am - 12:15 pm
10:45am -10:50 am AIDB welcome - Awards announcement
10:50am -11:30 am Academic Keynote: Towards Efficient Semantic Query Processing Engines Immanuel Trummer (Cornell University)
11:30 am - 11:45 am Stage-Level Executor Allocation in Apache Spark™ with Cost–Performance Trade-offs Miriam Rateike (IBM, University of Tübingen); Isaac Waweru Wambugu, Celia Cintas, Michael Kaufmann, Ioana Giurgiu, Skyler Speakman (IBM)
11:45 am - 12:00 pm Bespoke-Card: Why Tune When You Can Generate? Synthesizing Workload-Specific Cardinality Estimators Johannes Wehrstein, Anton Winter, Timo Eckmann (TU Darmstadt); Carsten Binnig (TU Darmstadt, DFKI, HessianAI)
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Generation of Adversarial Queries via Bayesian Optimization Jeffrey Tao, Yimeng Zeng (University of Pennsylvania); Natalie Maus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Haydn Jones, Osbert Bastani, Jacob R. Gardner, Ryan Marcus (University of Pennsylvania)
12:15 pm - 13:45 pm
13:45 pm - 15:15 pm
13:45 pm - 14:00 pm Large Databases Need Small, Open-Weight Language Models Parker Glenn, Alfy Samuel (Capital One)
14:00 pm - 14:15 pm Two Surfaces of Ambiguity: Complementary Detection for Text-to-SQL Leonhard Liu, Patrick K. Erdelt (Berliner Hochschule für Technik)
14:15 pm - 14:25 pm Towards Practical Latency SLOs on Cloud Data Warehouses Markos Markakis (MIT CSAIL); Tim Kraska (MIT CSAIL, G5 Labs)
14:25 pm - 14:35 pm AI Query Compilation for Unified and Optimized Execution Yeounoh Chung, Helena Caminal, Fatma Ozcan (Google)
14:35 pm - 14:45 pm MLSkip: Data Skipping for ML Filters via Lightweight Metadata Mihail Stoian (University of Technology Nuremberg); Mark Gerarts (Hasselt University); Pascal Ginter (Technical University of Munich); Andreas Zimmerer (University of Technology Nuremberg); Jan Van den Bussche (Hasselt University); Andreas Kipf (University of Technology Nuremberg)
14:45 pm - 14:55 pm Breaking Database Lock-in: Agentic Regeneration of High Performance Storage Readers for Database Bypass Victor Giannakouris, Immanuel Trummer (Cornell University)
14:55 pm - 15:05 pm Selectivity Estimation for Semantic Filters on Image Data Matthias Urban, Vu Huy Nguyen (Technical University of Darmstadt); Gabriele Sanmartino, Paolo Papotti (EURECOM); Carsten Binnig (Technical University of Darmstadt, DFKI, Hessian AI)
15:05 pm - 15:15 pm Hollywood: Towards A Large Movie Dataset for Database Benchmarking Ivan Iachnyk, Mihail Stoian, Andreas Kipf (University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN))
15:15 pm - 15:45 pm
15:45 pm - 17:15 pm
15:45 pm - 16:30 pm Industry keynote: AI Agents as Data-Processing Systems? Learnings from Production Data Systems Balakrishnan (Murali) Narayanaswamy (Amazon Web Services)
16:30 pm - 16:40 pm RUBICON: Agentic AI for Messy Enterprise Data Fabian Wenz (TU Darmstadt and MIT); Felix Treutwein (Landeshauptstadt Muenchen); Çağatay Demiralp (AWS AI and MIT); Michael Stonebraker (MIT)
16:40 pm - 16:50 pm Can Learned Query Optimizers Adapt Across DBMS Architectures? A Case Study with Balsa and DuckDB Wangshu Hong, Ryan Marcus (University of Pennsylvania)
16:50 pm - 17:05 pm How Hard Can Indexing Be? Principled Dataset Hardness Measurement for Learned Indexes Siyuan Zhang, Chuzhe Tang, Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL)
17:05 pm - 17:10 pm Poster Gong Show
ELT-Bench-Verified: Auditing Execution-Based Benchmarks for AI Data-Engineering Agents Christopher Zanoli, Andrea Giovannini (IBM Research); Tengjun Jin (University of Illinois); Ana Klimovic (ETH Zurich); Yotam Perlitz (IBM Research)
Structural Adversarial Attacks on Relational Deep Learning under Integrity Constraints Alan Gany (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG); Bogdan Cautis (Singapore Institute of Technology); Silviu Maniu (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG)
Metis: Machine learning based Dynamic Thread Control for High-Contention Transaction Processing Sayaka Tayama, Tatsuhiro Nakamori, Hideyuki Kawashima (Keio University)
17:15 pm - 18:15 pm
18:30 pm - 20:30 pm