VLDB Summer School 2025

Program

Monday, July 28th

9:00 – 9:30Welcome (organizers)
9:30 – 10:30Talk: Stefania Dumbrava (ENSIIE & Télécom SudParis)
Reliable Graph Data Processing at Scale
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

9:00 – 10:30Talk: Zoi Kaoudi (IT Copenhagen)
Unified Data Analytics: Seamless Data Systems Integration and Optimization
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30Talk: Georgia Koutrika (Athena Research Center)
Navigating the Future of Data Analytics: Integrating Multi-Modal Data with Natural Language Interfaces
12:30 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:30Talk: Sudeepa Roy (Duke Univ.)
Interpretable Data Analysis with Causal Inference and Explanations
15:30 – 16:00Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00Discussion (Academic Publishing)
17:00 – 18:00Student Session
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
Social Event
Daily chair: Piotr Wieczorek

Thursday, July 31st

9:30 – 10:30Talk: Anca Hangan (TU Cluj)
Data processing at the Edge
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