A *really* impressive awards showing for #UBuffalo
at #SIGMOD2025 .
Zhuoyue got a SIGMOD best paper, Atri (and Ex-Buffalonian Hung) got a PODS test of time. Then, the true star, #UB_CSE PhD alum Mahmoud Abo Khamis (now at RelationalAI) not only got the aforementioned test of time award, but also best papers in BOTH SIGMOD and PODS.
I'm jealous, but in a good way. My colleagues and our the students in our dept are awesome :)
Delayed due to lack of picture, but it was *really* great to catch up with past #UBDB (pre-#UBDBPL) grads in the bay area last month. My PhD student @amazing_ying , MS thesis student Gourab, and Varsha and Harsh: 2/4 of best 5/662 team I've ever taught. (and Zhen too!)
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'Grats Dr. Huber!
Aaron's #Thesis work demonstrated that queries evaluated on a probabilistic database have, in general, a higher fine grained complexity than when the same query is evaluated on the analogous deterministic database... and that's still the case under bag semantics.
One thing led to another, and it all ended in a mashup of Wander Join and the GProm Provenance system that can (approximately) answer probabilistic queries *faster* than a deterministic database can (exactly) answer the same query.
Oliver Kennedy