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.
News
- May 18, 2023DSG graduate Michael Abebe receives Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award
Recent PhD graduate Michael Abebe has received the 2023 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award. Now in its fifth year, the award was established to recognize excellence in computer science doctoral research. In addition to the recognition, recipients receive a cash prize of $1,000.
- Jan. 26, 2023Data systems researchers receive 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
Cheriton students Jeremy Chen, Yuqing Huang and Mushi Wang and Professors Semih Salihoğlu and Ken Salem have received a 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for their paper “Accurate summary-based cardinality estimation through the lens of cardinality estimation graphs.” No stranger to scholarly recognition, this research earlier received the Best Experiment, Analysis and Benchmark Award at VLDB 2022, the 48th International Conference on Very Large Databases, where it was presented originally.
- Jan. 18, 2023Jimmy Lin named a 2022 ACM Fellow
Professor Jimmy Lin has been named a 2022 ACM Fellow for his contributions to question answering, information retrieval, and natural language processing.
Events
- Sep. 25, 2023DSG Seminar Series • Class Expression Learning with Multiple Representations
- Oct. 16, 2023DSG Seminar Series • What is Next for Data Integration?
Speaker: AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin
Location: DC 1304
- Dec. 11, 2023DSG Seminar Series • Enabling Emerging Edge and IoT Applications with Edge-Cloud Data Management
