Jiaheng Lu's Archived News

    2021

  1. Our new VLDB 2021 Demo paper applied category theory and functional programming on multi-model databases. [Details] (4.8.2021)
  2. Congratulations to Pengfei Xu and Chao Zhang who successfully passed the public defense and received PhD degrees. [News1] [News2] (5.6.2021).
  3. Congratulations that our both Master program of Data Science and Master program of Computer Science are the top-3 popular program for applicants in the whole university in 2020. [Details] (21.1.2021).
  4. We will give a new tutorial in DASFAA 2021! "Multi-Model Data Query Languages and Processing Paradigms" [Details] (21.1.2021).

    2020

  1. We will give a new tutorial in ICDE 2021! "Workload-Aware Performance Tuning for Autonomous DBMSs" [Details] (6.12.2020).
  2. Two new PhD students Zhengtong Yan and Shuxun Zhang joined our UDBMS group in October. Welcome Zhengtong and Shuxun! (9.10.2020).
  3. Our Data Science M.Sc. program is among the global top 10 according to Forbes. Congratulations to all program's teachers and students! [Link] (4.10.2020).
  4. I was promoted to a permanent professorship in Computer Science (Data Management). Thank all for your help to my academic career! (4.10.2020).
  5. We will give a new tutorial in CIKM 2020! "Multi-Model Data Query Languages and Processing Paradigms" [Details] (23.5.2020).
  6. Our survey paper "A Survey on Automatic Parameter Tuning for Big Data Processing Systems" has been published in ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) [Open access], [Related VLDB tutorial] (2.5.2020).
  7. We published a new journal paper on benchmarking multi-model databases: "Holistic evaluation in multi-model databases benchmarking." [PDF][Code](6.3.2020).

    2019

  1. We recieved a gift research fund from Oracle, California. I gave an invited talk in Oracle, titled "A Categorical Framework on Multi-Model Databases" [PDF](7.9.2019).
  2. We will give a new tutorial in CIKM 2019! "Synergy of Database Techniques and Machine Learning Models for String Similarity Search and Join" [Details](7.9.2019).
  3. Two papers are accepted in VLDB 2019! One research paper: "Towards a Unified Framework for String Similarity Joins" [PDF], [Source code] , [Slides] and one demo paper: "PivotE: Revealing and Visualizing the Underlying EntityStructures for Exploration" [PDF] (22.6.2019).
  4. We will give a new tutorial on autonomous performance tuning in VLDB 2019! See more information here (24.4.2019).
  5. One new survey paper (38 pages) on multi-model databases (to appear in ACM Computing Surveys)! [PDF] (6.3.2019).
  6. A new Postdoc Researcher Dr. Qingsong Guo joined our research group in Helsinki on 14.1.2019. Welcome Qingsong! (22.1.2019).

    2018

  1. Congratulate PhD student: Dr. Zhaoan Dong (in Renmin University of China) successfully defend his PhD thesis! Title: A Study of Crowdsourcing-Based Knowledge Acquisition. (12.12.2018).
  2. A new Postdoc Researcher Dr. Lizhen Fu joined our research group in Helsinki at 15.11.2018. Welcome Lizhen! (16.11.2018).
  3. We will give a tutorial on CIKM 2018 for Multi-model Databases and Tightly Integrated Polystores. See Slides, More information. (09.09.2018)
  4. We published three papers on the vision and benchmark for multi-model databases: Vision 1, Vision 2, Benchmark (05.08.2018).
  5. A lecture on big data management on 2018 Summer School: Challenges for the XXI century: data, information and communication under the Utrecht Network collaboration. See the exercise questions. (28.06.2018).
  6. Congratulate my two PhD students (in Renmin University of China) successfully defend their PhD thesis! Juwei Shi: Performance Evaluation, Models and Optimization for Big Data Analytics Platforms. Yu Liu: Structural-Based Approximate Algorithms for Massive Graphs. (18.05.2018).
  7. One lecture in the EDUFI Winter School in 2018 on "Introduction to Big Data Management". [Talk_slides] [Task] (03.04.2018).

    2017

  1. A new PhD student Gongsheng Yuan joined our research group in Helsinki at 30.10.2017. Welcome Gongsheng! (03.11.2017).
  2. One invited talk on our current two research projects at Aalto University. See [Presentation_slides] . (22.10.2017).
  3. We are awarded a new grant on multi-model data management from the Academy of Finland. See abstract. (22.06.2017).
  4. A new PhD student Yuxing Chen will join our research group in Helsinki at 06.03.2017. Welcome Yuxing! (04.03.2017).
  5. We will give a new tutorial on multi-model data management in EDBT conference 2017 [PDF][slides] (01.02.2017).

    2016

  1. We are awarded a new grant on heterogenous big data platform by Huawei Company (14.12.2016).
  2. "Towards Benchmarking Multi-Model Databases" CIDR 2017 [Abstract] (16.10.2016).
  3. Our group made a poster presentation in Linux Jubilee seminar at the department on 22,August 2016. [Poster] (16.10.2016).
  4. A new PhD student Chao Zhang will join our research group in Helsinki at 09.09.2016. Welcome Chao! (03.09.2016).
  5. Prof. Irena Holubova from Charles University in Prague visited our group (June-August, 2016) for the collabration on multi-model databases. Thanks Irena! (03.09.2016).
  6. We organized a workshop with ICDE 2016 in Helsinki on keyword search and data exploration (20.05.2016).
  7. We organized the First Europe-China workshop on Big Data Management in the University of Helsinki (16.05.2016).