VLDB Summer School 2025

Program

Monday, July 28th (Updated)

9:00 – 9:30Welcome (organizers)
9:30 – 10:30Talk: Anca Hangan (TU Cluj)
Data processing at the Edge
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30Talk: George Fletcher (TU Eindhoven)
Data-in-the-loop: theories of data for the working database researcher
12:30 – 14:30Lunch
14:30 – 15:30Talk: Burcu Külahçıoğlu Özkan (TU Delft)
Testing Distributed Systems
15:30 – 16:00Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00Talk: Angela Bonifati (Univ. Lyon 1, LIRIS, IUF)
Graph Analytics for Strong and Trustworthy AI
17:00 – 18:00Student Session
18:00 – 19:00Dinner
Daily chair: Piotr Wieczorek

Tuesday, July 29th (Updated)

9:00 – 10:30Talk: Zoi Kaoudi (IT University of Copenhagen)
Unified Data Analytics: Seamless Data Systems Integration and Optimization
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30Talk: Sudeepa Roy (Duke Univ.)
Interpretable Data Analysis with Causal Inference and Explanations
12:30 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:30Talk: Stefania Dumbrava (ENSIIE & Télécom SudParis)
Reliable Graph Data Processing at Scale
15:30 – 16:00Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00Student Session
17:00 – 18:00Discussion (Academic Publishing)
18:00 – 19:00Dinner
Daily chair: Anca Hangan

Wednesday, July 30th

9:00 – 10:30Talk: Marcin Żukowski (Snowflake co-founder)
The story of two architectures
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30Talk: Amr El Abbadi (Univ. of California Santa Barbara)
Privacy-preserving access in large scale data systems
12:30 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:00Student Session
15:15 – 16:40 Walking tour. Meeting point: in front of the summer school venue.
The tour ends at Kardynalska Pier in Piasek Island, near the Cathedral Island (Ostrów Tumski), the oldest part of the city, known for its Gothic cathedral, cobbled streets, and traditional gas lamps lit by hand every evening.
16:40 – 17:40Boat cruise on the Odra River (50 minutes). Departure from Kardynalska Pier. Boat: Driada Water Taxi
19.30Dinner, Herbal hotel, entrance from ul. Włodkowica 15-17, 50-072 Wrocław
Daily chair: Piotr Wieczorek

Thursday, July 31st (Updated)

9:30 – 10:30Practical Session
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00Talk: Piotr Wieczorek (Univ. Wroclaw)
Queries with arithmetic
12:00 – 13:30Lunch
13:30 – 14:30Student Session
14:30 – 15:00Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00Discussion (PhD Work-Life Balance)
16:00 – 16:30Closing (organizers)
Daily chair: Stefania Dumbrava

Student sessions

Monday, July 28th, 17:00-18:00

NameAffiliation
Ibraheem TahaAalborg University and Athena Research Centerposter
Vasile OfrimTechnical University of Cluj-Napocaposter
Enas KhwailehUtrecht Universityposter
Divya BhadauriaHasso Plattner Institute (HPI), Potsdamposter
Mert AyasWestphalian University of Applied Sciencesposter
ZIWEI JINEindhoven University of Technologyposter
Koumudi Yasara GanepolaTechnische Universität Wienposter

Tuesday, July 29th, 16:00-17:00

NameAffiliation
Andrei-Horațiu MateescuTechnical University of Cluj-Napocaposter
Guru Ashish SinghUniversity of Szczecinposter
Leonard TraegerUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore Countyposter
Mirco CazzaroUniversity of Paduaposter
Alexander Bilde PedersenIT-University of Copenhagenposter
Long GuTU-Darmstadtposter
Dore StaquetHasselt Universityposter
Mathilde MARCYINSA Lyonposter
Liese BekkersHasselt Universityposter

Wednesday, July 30th, 14:00-15:00

NameAffiliation
Natalia JunkiertUniwersytet Warszawskiposter
Danning ZhanTU Delftposter
Wenbo WuUniversity of Southamptonposter
Paul WaltherTechnical University of Munichposter
Shwetha Nagaraj SalimathSLB, LISN, Universite Paris-Saclayposter
Juri PetersenIT University of Copenhagenposter
Oto MrazTU Delftposter
Lukas KubelkaKarlsruhe Institute of Technologyposter+demo
Johannes SchrottTechnische Universität Wienposter

Thursday, July 31st, 13:30-14:30

NameAffiliation
Zuzanna SurowiecUniversity of Warsawposter
Afrasiyab KhaliliBally’sposter
Sepehr SadoughiEindhoven University of Technologyposter
Olaf Van BylenHasselt Universityposter
Aliya BannayevaTechnical University of Munichposter
Nikola SelicTechnical University of Munichposter
Raoni LourençoUniversity of Luxembourgposter
Sepideh AbediniUniversity of Waterlooposter
Hritika KathuriaEcole Polytechnique and INRIAposter