Welcome to the Data Systems Group

The Data Systems Group at the University of Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science builds innovative, high-impact platforms, systems, and applications for processing, managing, analyzing, and searching the vast collections of data that are integral to modern information societies — colloquially known as “big data” technologies.

Our capabilities span the full spectrum from unstructured text collections to relational data, and everything in between including semi-structured sources such as time series, log data, graphs, and other data types. We work at multiple layers in the software stack, ranging from storage management and execution platforms to user-facing applications and studies of user behaviour.

Our research tackles all phases of the information lifecycle, from ingest and cleaning to inference and decision support.

  1. Sep. 3, 2024Professor Ihab Ilyas named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
    Professor Ihab Ilyas

    Professor Ihab Ilyas of the Cheriton School of Computer Science has been named a 2024 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest national recognition for researchers in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. He is among 103 distinguished individuals across Canada recognized this year for their exceptional scholarly, artistic, and scientific achievements.

  2. Aug. 19, 2024 Professor Ihab Ilyas receives C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award for advancing computer science
    Professor Ihab Ilyas

    Professor Ihab Ilyas has been awarded the prestigious 2024 C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award in recognition of his contributions to building large-scale machine learning systems for data integration, data cleaning and knowledge construction. Established in 2007 and named in 2012 after Calvin Carl Gotlieb, a founding figure of computing in Canada, the award celebrates outstanding Canadians whose work has significantly advanced computer science and engineering.

  3. June 13, 2024University Professor M. Tamer Özsu receives ACM Presidential Award
    photo of M. Tamer Özsu with ACM Books series

    University Professor M. Tamer Özsu has received the ACM Presidential Award for long-standing and significant contributions to the computing field and its scientific community in general, as well as to ACM in particular. He is one of seven individuals recognized for exemplary service to the computing field.

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  1. Oct. 21, 2024DSG Seminar Series • Efficiency in Data Systems

    Speaker: Tilmann Rabl, University of Potsdam

    Location: DC 1302

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