M. Tamer Özsu

General Information

• Undergraduate internships: I am not going to be admitting any international interns for the foreseeable future. Please do not write to me about internship as I will not be able to respond to individual emails.
• Graduate students: I am not going to be admitting any more graduate student next academic year. I am full right now.
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• Visitors: Campus map; please mark in the M lot 

Recent News

• Zeynep's work from her PhD thesis got accepted to PVLDB 2025 (will be presented at VLDB 2025 in London, UK):
• Korkmaz, Z. Özsu, M.T and Daudjee, K. Locality-Aware Cache Replacement Policy for Graph Traversals, Proc. VLDB Endowment, 2025.
• Harrum Noor graduated (MMath; April 2025) with thesis entitled ">What Do You Mean? Using Large Language Models for Semantic Evaluation of NL2SQL Queries"
• Sairaj's work from his Master's thesis got accepted to SIGMOD 2025:
• Voruganti, S. and Özsu, M.T. MIRAGE-ANNS: Mixed Approach Graph-based Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search, Proc. ACM Manag. Data (SIGMOD) 3(3): Article 188, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1145/3725325.
• Sairaj Voruganti graduated (MMath; April 2025) with thesis entitled "MIRAGE-ANNS: Mixed Approach Graph-based Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search"
• We are organizing a Workshop on LLM+Databases at ICDE 2025.
• Winter 2025 course offering (only for Data Science students): Data Engineering for Data Science
• The following papers have appeared or have been accepted this year:
• Peng, P., Ji, S., Özsu, M. T., and Zou, L. Minimum motif-cut: a workload-aware RDF graph partitioning strategy. VLDB Journal, 33: 1517–1542, 2024.
• Zhou, A., Wang, Y., Chen, L., and Özsu, M. T. Positive Communities on Signed Graphs That Are Not Echo Chambers: A Clique-Based Approach. Proc. ICDE 2024, pages 2531-2543, 2024.
• Zhang, C., Bonifati, A., and Özsu, M. T. Incremental sliding window connectivity over streaming graphs. Proc. VLDB Endowment 17(10): 2473–2486, 2024.
• Wang, R., Gao, C., Wang, J., Kadam, P., Ozsu, M. T., and Aref, W. G. Optimizing LSM-based indexes for disaggregated memory. VLDB Journal, 2024. Accepted for publication.
• Ipsita Mohanty graduated (MMath; June 2024) and started working at Huawei Technologies Canada. Congratulations Ipsita.
• Winter 2024 course offering: Disaggregated & Heterogeneous Computing Platform for Graph Processing.
• Kerem Akillioglu graduated (February 2024) and will start his PhD program in Fall 2024. Congratulations Kerem.     
• The slides of the tutorial Chao Zhang, Angela Bonifati and I gave at SIGMOD 2023 are now online here.
• Aida Sheshboulaiki graduated (May 2023); congratulations Dr. Sheshboulaiki.
• Khaled Ammar graduated (February 2023); congratulations Dr. Ammar.
• Anıl Paçacı graduated (July 2022); congratulations Dr. Paçacı.

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