Looking forward to great discussions and catching up with everyone at VLDB!

Tuesday, 1:45 PM:
🪂 Parachute: Single-Pass Bi-Directional Information Passing
by Mihail Stoian (Research 8 — Westminster, 4F)
PDF: www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/...
Code: github.com/utndatasyste...

Monday, 11:45 AM:
🍫 Instance-Optimized String Fingerprints
by Mihail Stoian (AIDB Workshop — Westminster, 4F)
PDF: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.10391
Code: github.com/utndatasyste...

🔗 Learn more about our research and team: utndatasystems.github.io

🛠️ The position requires strong programming skills in C++ and Python.

We've already published early results in this space:
- Virtual, TRL @ NeurIPS'24: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.140...
- Virtual, EDBT'25 (Best Demo): openproceedings.org/2025/conf/ed...

📍 Based in Nuremberg, a vibrant and historic city in the heart of Bavaria, our lab offers a stimulating research environment and an excellent quality of life.

This fully funded position (100% E13 salary) is part of an exciting collaboration with the Machine Learning Lab, focusing on systems-oriented research at the intersection of databases and machine learning.

Chapeau!

During their time with us, they gained insights into our research projects, particularly DataLoom and Virtual. Moreover, they had the chance to enjoy the modern furniture in our seminar rooms.

DataLoom: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Virtual: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.14066

In addition to the 30 students in the program, researchers from UTN's AI labs joined us, keen to explore how AI could further enhance Firebolt's caching system.

Alex showcased how Firebolt caches results from arbitrary operators using a cost-benefit-based replacement policy. He also introduced Firebolt's hash join, which features a compact hash table design minimizing its memory footprint.