Overview

The fourth edition of the Data Systems meet Data Science (DSDS) workshop, organized by the CREATE SustainSys: Sutainable Data Systems for Data Science program, will be held as part of the ICDE 2026 Conference in Montreal, Canada.

The workshop series brings together the research community that works at the intersection of data/software systems, software engineering, and Data Science/AI/ML, either by building the next generation Data Science platforms or by using  AI/ML techniques to improve systems. 

The workshop is co-organized by:

Bettina Kemme, Essam Mansour, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Natalie Enright Jerger, Oana Balmau, Semih Salihoğlu

AGENDA 

08:00  - 09:00 Registration 

08:45  - 09:00 Welcome

Session 1

09:00 - 09:45 Gustavo Alonso Sustainable Data Systems - Details

09:45 - 10:00 Boris Glavic Just-in-Time Model Replacement: Transparently Substituting LLMs with Cheaper Alternatives - Details

10:00 - 10:15 Amine Mhedhbi     Semantic Query Processing over Relations - Details

10:15 - 10:30 Discussion

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10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 

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Session 2

11:00 - 11:20     Angela Bonifati Property Graph Transformations in Action: From Data Integration to Causal Analysis - Details

11:20 - 11:35 Ziawasch Abedjan Ad-hoc Data Integration in Data Lakes - Details

11:35 - 11:50 Mourad Khayati Towards Multimodal Pipelines for Time Series Cleaning - Details

Session 2 - Student Talks

11:50 - 12:00 Abrar Fuad PostLearn: Towards a Learned Index For PostgreSQL - Details

12:00 - 12:10 Shubham Vashisth Making Learned Indexes LSM-compatible

12:10 - 12:20 Shiquan Zhang REMOP: REmote-Memory-aware OPerator Optimization

12:20 - 12:30 Discussion

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12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break 

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Session 3

14:00 - 14:20 Alkis Simitsis Efficient Execution of UDF Queries in Modern Data Engines - Details

14:20 - 14:35 Niv Dayan Sustainable Frequency Estimation - Details

14:35 - 14:50 Nesime Tatbul Towards Enterprise-Grade Text-to-SQL - Details

Session 3 - Student Talks

14:50 – 15:00 Yunhao Mao Epoch-based Optimistic Concurrency Control in Geo-replicated Databases

15:00 – 15:10 Yiran Li Quantum Optimization for Sustainable Data Management

15:10 -- 15:20 Waleed Afandi An LLM-Guided Query-Aware Inference System for GNN Models on Large Knowledge Graphs - Details

15:20 – 15:30 Michalis Bachras   Beyond Performance: Measuring the Environmental Impact of Analytical Databases.

15:30 -- 15:40 Mohaddeseh Yaghoubpour Toward Resource-Aware Evaluation of Machine Learning Methods

15:40 - 16:00 Discussion & Closing Remarks

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