Schedule

Refer to Talks for more details

Time Event
8:00-9:00 Registration
Session 1 (1.5 hours)  
9:00-9:45 Keynote 1
Guoliang Li
9:45-10:30 Keynote 2 - Data in the Age of AI
Kavitha Srinivas, IBM
10:30-11:00 Break
Session 2 (1.5 hours)  
11:00-11:45 Keynote 3
Aditya Parameswaran
11:45-12:30 Keynote 4
Dong Deng
12:30-2:00 Lunch
Session 3 (2 hours)  
2:00-2:40 Invited Talk - Semantic Query Processing over Relations
Amine Mhedhbi, École Polytechnique de Montréal
2:40-3:00 Industry Talk - GaussVector: A Multi-modal Vector Database for the Agentic AI Era
Huaxin Zhang, Huawei
3:00-3:20 Paper Presentation 1 - VecAlign: Efficient Vector Sequence Alignment for Similarity Search in the Embedding Space
Zhizhi Wang (Rutgers University), Dong Deng (Rutgers University)
3:20-3:40 Paper Presentation 2 - Performance of Small Language Model Pretraining on FABRIC: An Empirical Study
Praveen Rao (University of Missouri-Columbia)
3:40-4:00 Paper Presentation 3 - CORE: An LLM-Powered System for Resolution Mining and Retrieval from Conversational Platforms
Archan Dutta (Aisera), Vinay Raj Sisodiya (Aisera), Hardik Airen (Aisera), Phani Nivarthi (Aisera)
4:00-4:30 Break
4:30-6:30 Tamer Ozsu Event
6:30-7:00 Free Time
7:00-9:00 Reception