CIDR 2024 Program
Sunday
3:00pm
Hotel check-in and conference registration
3:00 – 6:00
6:00pm
Dinner
6:00 – 7:30
7:30pm
Happy hour
7:30 – 8:30
Complementary beer, wise, and cheeseboard provided by Chaminade
8:30pm
Informal reception
8:30 – 10:00
Cash bar with complementary whisky tasting
Monday
9:00am
Opening and Welcome
9:00 – 9:15
Carlo Curino (Microsoft),
Jignesh Patel (University of Wisconsin),
Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zürich)
9:15am
10:15am
Break
10:45am
12:15pm
Spare time
12:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
2:30pm
Chair: Pat Helland
2:30 – 3:15
Test of Time Award Talk
3:15pm
Break
3:45pm
4:45pm
Spare time
6:00pm
Dinner
7:30pm
Gong Show and Database Quiz
Chair: Andy Pavlo
7:30 – 9:00
9:00pm
Social hour
9:00 – 10:00
Between 7:30 and 10:00, cash bar and snacks are available with complementary whisky tasting
Tuesday
9:00am
10:00am
Spare time
10:20am
Break
10:50am
Chair: Magdalena Balazinska
10:50 – 11:10
Panda: Performance Debugging
for Databases using LLM Agents
Vikramank Y Singh (Amazon)*; Kapil Vaidya (MIT); Vinayshekhar
Bannihatti Kumar (Amazon); Sopan Khosla (AWS AI Labs); Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy (Amazon);
Rashmi Gangadharaiah (AWS AI, Amazon); Tim Kraska (MIT)
11:10 – 11:30
TracEx: Understanding and Analyzing
Database Traces
Dominik Durner (TUM)*; Lennart Espe (TU München); Jana Giceva (TU
Munich); Anja Gruenheid (Microsoft)
11:30 – 11:50
Towards an Objective Metric for Data
Value Through Relevance
Boris Glavic (Illinois Institute of Technology)*; Pengyuan Li
(Illinois institute of thechnology); Ziyu Liu (Illinois institute of thechnology); Dieter
Gawlick (Oracle); Vasudha Krishnaswamy (Oracle, USA); Danica Porobic (Oracle); Zhen Hua Liu
(Oracle)
11:50 – 12:10
Leopard: A General Test Suite for
Isolation Level Verification
Peiyuan Liu (East China Normal University)*; Siyang Weng (East China
Normal University); Keqiang Li (East China Normal University); Lyu Ni (East China Normal
University); Chengcheng Yang (East China Normal University); Rong Zhang (East China Normal
University); Weining Qian (East China Normal University); Dian Qiao (Huawei)
12:15pm
Lunch
1:45pm
Spare time
3:00pm
Chair: Eugene Wu
3:00 – 3:20
NL2SQL is a solved problem...
Not!
Avrilia Floratou (Microsoft)*; Fotis Psallidas (Microsoft); Fuheng
Zhao (Microsoft); Shaleen Deep (Microsoft Gray Systems Lab); Gunther Hagleither (Waii); Wangda
Tan (Waii); Joyce Cahoon (Microsoft); Rana Alotaibi (Microsoft); Jordan Henkel (Microsoft);
Abhik Singla (Microsoft); Alex Van Grootel (Microsoft); Brandon Chow (Microsoft); Kai Deng
(Microsoft); Katherine Lin (Microsoft); Marcos Campos (Microsoft); Venkatesh Emani (Microsoft);
Vivek Pandit (Microsoft); Victor Shnayder (Microsoft); Wenjing Wang (Microsoft); Carlo Curino
(Microsoft -- GSL)
3:20 – 3:40
Welding Natural Language Queries to
Analytics IRs with LLMs
Kaushik Rajan (Microsoft Research)*; Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft);
Akash Lal (Microsoft Research); Sampath Rajendra (Microsoft); Krithika Subramanian (Microsoft);
Krut Patel (Microsoft)
3:40 – 4:00
Turning Databases Into Generative AI
Machines
Alekh Jindal (SmartApps)*; Shi Qiao (SmartApps Inc); Sathwik Madhula
(SmartApps); Kanupriya Raheja (SmartApps); Sandhya Jain (SmartApps)
4:10pm
Break
4:30pm
6:00pm
Dinner
7:30pm
Chair: Danica Porobic
7:30 – 7:50
Yellowbrick: An Elastic Data
Warehouse on Kubernetes
Mark A Cusack (Yellowbrick Data)*; John Adamson (Yellowbrick Data);
Mark Brinicombe (Yellowbrick Data, Inc); Neil A Carson (Yellowbrick Data); Thomas Kejser
(Yellowbrick); Jim Peterson (Yellowbrick); Arvind Vasudev (YB); Kurt Westerfeld (Yellowbrick
Data); Robert Wipfel (Yellowbrick Data)
7:50 – 8:10
MotherDuck: DuckDB in the cloud and
in the client
RJ Atwal (MotherDuck); Peter Boncz (Centrum Wiskunde &
Informatica)*; Ryan Boyd (Boyd); Antony Courtney (MotherDuck); Till Döhmen (University of
Amsterdam); Florian Gerlinghoff (MotherDuck); Jeff Huang (MotherDuck); Joseph Hwang
(MotherDuck); Raphael Hyde (MotherDuck); Elena Felder (MotherDuck); Jacob Lacouture
(MotherDuck); Yves Le Maout (MotherDuck); Boaz Leskes (MotherDuck); Yao Liu (MotherDuck); Alex
Monahan (MotherDuck); Dan Perkins (MotherDuck); Tino Tereshko (MotherDuck); Jordan Tigani
(MotherDuck); Nick Ursa (MotherDuck); Stephanie Wang (MotherDuck); Yannick Welsch
(MotherDuck)
8:10pm
Social event
8:10 – 10:00
Between 7:30 and 10:00, cash bar and snacks are available with complementary whisky tasting
Wednesday
9:00am
10:00am
Break
10:30am
12:15pm
Lunch