π’ [Oct 26] Prisha and Kaitlyn will be represnting us in the MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC).
Prisha: a lightning talk on Resolving the Missing Financial Data Crisis: A Generative AI Pipeline for SEC 10-K
Kaitlyn: a poster on Does AI Explanation Help or Hurt Human Judgment? Evaluating LLM Support for Table Unionability
π’ [Aug 26] Strong presence at VLDB 2026Β
Roee served as a local chair
Nick served as a student volunteer and presented a paper at the TADA Workshop
Nina presented her paper at the main conference
Sreeram presented his paper at the BioDMS Workshop
π [Jul 26] Congrats to Nina on being named a 2026-27 AAUW International Doctoral Degree Fellow
π’ [Jun 26] Nick presented our paper BEACON: Budget-Aware Entity Matching Across Domains at SIGMOD 2026Β
π [May 26] My MQP team Itay Kohen, Artem Frenk, and Jacob Wiberg have won the Data Science Outstanding MQP Award
π [May 26] Nick was awarded a SIGMOD 2026 Student Travel Grant
π [May 26] Nina has successfully completed her PhD Qualifier. Special thank you to her committee Fabricio Murai and Erin Ottmar.Β
π [April 26] Nick has successfully defended his MS Thesis. Special thank you to his reader Fabricio Murai.
π [April 26] Congrats to Nina and Sreeram for getting their paper "Human-Centered Exploration of Table Unionability" accepted to VLDB 2026.
π’ [Mar 26] Nina presented a poster on "Table Unionability Is Uncertain and Thatβs Why Humans and AI Need Each Other" at WiDS Cambridge 2026
π’ [Feb 26] Nina participated in 2026 Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) & 3-Minute Thesis and has done exceptional work.
Link to the 3MT talk: https://youtube.com/shorts/bD7gJVB-pLg?feature=shareΒ
π [Feb 26] Congrats to Nick for getting his paper "BEACON: Budget-Aware Entity Matching Across Domains" accepted to SIGMOD 2026. This is a collaboration with Greg GorenΒ
π [Jan 26] Nina and PI Shraga recently contributed to an opinion paper on using LLMs for building applicationsΒ
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π’ Β [Jan 26] We presented three works at North East Database Day 2026Β
π Nina will be giving a talk on Understanding Human Judgment in Table Unionability [Slides] [Poster]Β
π Nick will be presenting a poster on BEACON: Budget-Aware Entity Matching Across Domains [Poster]Β
π Artem will be presenting a poster on SAVeD: Semantically Aware Version Discovery [Poster]Β
π [Dec 25]Β FairPrep, a BSF-funded research project with my amazing collaborator (and mentor) Avi (Avigdor) Gal, will be exploring new ways to bring fairness into data discovery and integration
π [Aug 25] Congrats to Nina and Angela on their paper acceptence to 2025 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference
π [June 25] Congrats to Nina and Sreeram for having their paper accepted to HILDA2025