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Brief

I am a Microsoft Endowed Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. I teach databases and do research in data management, where I apply formal theory to novel and difficult data management tasks. I worked on semistructured data, probabilistic databases, parallel query evaluation on a cluster, causal reasoning in databases, information theory for cardinality estimation, recursive querie. For a short bio please see here.

My Erdos number is 2.

Books

Course: Topics in Database Theory

Bekeley, Fall 2023. Slides, videos, problem sets are here. Email me for solutions.

Selected Talks

Information theory and databases: Keynote talk at LICS'2023

Probabilistic Databases:IJCAI 2016 Tutorial on Lifted Inference

Communication Cost for Query Processing: SIGMOD'2018 Tutorial (pptx, pdf).

Information Theory for Optimal Query Evaluation STOC'2018 Plenary Talk (pptx, pdf).

Publications

DBLP,Google Scholar,Semantic Scholar

Awards

• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2024
• SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award 2022
• ACM Fellow 2011
• Several paper awards: full list here
• NSF Career Award 2001
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 2001-2002.

The Database Group at the University of Washington.

Older Webiste (until December 2023) here.