Southern California Database Day 2025

Welcome to the home page of the 2nd Southern California Database Day (SoCal DB Day), to be held on Friday, May 9th, 2025, in University of Southern California at the Ginsburg Human-Centered Computation Hall (GCS).

SoCal DB Day is a one-day workshop-style event for data management researchers and practitioners from academia and industry in Southern California to meet and discuss their latest research and experiences. This includes talks, keynotes, and posters from University of Southern California, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, other regional schools, and many companies. 

Program and Schedule

Below is the schedule for the event:

8.00 am - 8.45 am:         Registration, Breakfast, and Poster Setup

8.45 am - 9.00 am:         Opening Remarks (by Shahram Ghandeharizadeh and Ibrahim Sabek)

Speaker: Nenad Medvidović (Chair of USC's Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science)

9.00 am - 10.15 am:       Industry Talks - Part 1 (Session Chair: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh)

9.00 am - 9.25 am:  "Building a Unified Database Infrastructure at eBay: A Foundation Platform for Diverse Data Stores" by Jung-Sang Ahn and Hieu Nguyen (eBay)

         9.25 am - 9.50 am:         "Metastable Failures in Database Services" by Doug Terry

          9.50 am - 10.15 am:       "AI-powered analytics with Amazon Redshift Serverless and Data Sharing" by Mohammed Alkateb (Amazon)

10.15 am - 10.45 am:     Coffee Break and Poster Session

10.45 am - 12.00 pm:     SoCal Academic DB Groups (Session Chair: Vassilis Tsotras)

10.45 am - 11.00 am:  "Toward a Simple Semantics (Formal & Operational) for Recursive Queries with Aggregates" by Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA, SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award)

    11.00 am - 11.15 am:  UC Irvine Updates by Sharad Mehotra 

       11.15 am - 11.30 am:  UC Riverside Updates by Vagelis Hristidis 

11.30 am - 11.45 am:  UC Santa Barbara Updates by Amr El Abbadi

11.45 am - 12.00 pm:  USC Updates by Cyrus Shahabi 

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm:       Lunch, Poster Session, and Group Photo

1.00 pm - 1.50 pm:         Industry Talks - Part 2 (Session Chair: Jay Pujara)

1.00 pm - 1.25 pm:  "Capella Columnar: Cloud-Native Analytics for JSON Data at Scale" by Peeyush Gupta (Couchbase)

         1.25 pm - 1.50 pm:         "AI & DBs at Google Cloud" by Yannis Papakonstantinou (Google)

1.50 pm - 2.00 pm:         Coffee Break and Poster Session

2.00 pm - 3.15 pm:         Academic Talks (Session Chair: Craig Knoblock)

2.00 pm - 2.25 pm:  "Towards Robust and Verifiable Learned Database Systems: Query Optimization Case Study" by Ibrahim Sabek (USC)

         2.25 pm - 2.50 pm:         "Learning Reliable ML Models from Uncertain and Incomplete Data" by Babak Salimi (UCSD)

          2.50 pm - 3.15 pm:         "Zero-overhead Optimal Algorithms for Acyclic Joins" by Remy Wang (UCLA)

3.15 pm - 3.30 pm:         Coffee Break and Poster Session

3.30 pm - 4:00 pm:         Panel:  SoCal Industry and Academia Collaboration

       Panelists: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (Moderator), Michael J. Carey (UC Irvine), Jun Li (eBay), Doug Terry

4.00 pm - 4.15 pm:         Coffee Break and Poster Session

4.15 pm - 5.15 pm:         Lightning Talks (Session Chair: Ibrahim Sabek)

5.15 pm - 5.30 pm:         Closing Remarks

5.30 pm - 8:00 pm:         Happy Hour, Dinner, and Poster Session

Organizers and Program Chairs

Contact

• Event-related inquiries: Ibrahim Sabek (sabek@usc.edu)