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Mihail Stoian @mihailstoian.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Can your database system predict underprovisining before it even happens? Meet ◒ xBound, the very first framework for join size lower bounds. xBound tells you how many tuples your SQL query will produce *at least*. Brought to you by @microsoft.com Gray Systems Lab & @utndatasystems.bsky.social.

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Our lab is excited to be presenting two papers at VLDB 2025 in London this week! 🇬🇧

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The Data Systems Lab is seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join our team and work on foundation models for data compression.

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Off to SIGMOD 2025 in Berlin! 🚄 Here’s our schedule: Today, 4:20 PM: 💡 Redbench: A Benchmark Reflecting Real Workloads (aiDM) Wed, 2:00 PM: 🏆 DPconv: Super-Polynomially Faster Join Ordering Thu, 2:30 PM: ❄️ Pruning in Snowflake: Working Smarter, Not Harder Come say hi! 👋

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Excited to share our latest paper in collaboration with Snowflake! Congratulations to my PhD student, @andizimmerer.bsky.social, on his first SIGMOD publication, and many thanks to Snowflake for their support—both in providing essential statistics and championing the work.

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Fantastic news 🎖️ @mihailstoian.bsky.social will present DPconv at SIGMOD in Berlin this June.

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Thrilled to share that we've received the Best Demonstration Award 🏆 at EDBT 2025! Congratulations to my students @mihailstoian.bsky.social and Ping-Lin Kuo for their excellent work and dedication over the past few weeks—well deserved! Paper: openproceedings.org/2025/conf/ed...

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A huge thank you to our speakers and everyone who contributed to the great discussions at today’s workshop! A big shout-out to Manisha Luthra and @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social for co-organizing—always a pleasure working together! 😊

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We just announced the program. Hope to see you in Bamberg on Tuesday! luthramanisha.github.io/ML4Sys-and-S...

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Second Workshop on ML4Sys and Sys4ML

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It was a pleasure to host six students from the Software Engineering Elite Graduate Master's Program (University of Augsburg, @tum.de, and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social) for a brief visit to UTN.

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This week, in the Data Engineering course of the AI & Robotics Master's program at UTN, we had the pleasure of hosting Alex Hall from @firebolthq.bsky.social for an insightful talk on optimizing SQL query performance through caching and reusing subresults in repetitive workloads.

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Mihail Stoian @mihailstoian.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Are you a fan of Parquet and at #NeurIPS2024 tomorrow? Let's meet at our poster at @trl-research.bsky.social to see how you can reduce your Parquet file sizes by up to 40%. Virtual compresses tables via functions while ensuring fast column scans. ⏰ 2.30pm 📍East Meeting Room 11 & 12

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Come join us in Bamberg in March. The submission process is very lightweight, you just need to complete a Google Form.

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PVLDB @pvldb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Vol:17 No:12 → DataLoom: Simplifying Data Loading with LLMs 👥 Authors: Alexander Van Renen, Mihail Stoian, Andreas Kipf 📄 PDF: www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol17/p4449-rene…

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