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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Job Opening: Our lab is hiring two student employees (40h/month) for research on data validation and machine unlearning. deem.berlin#jobs-205429

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Job Opening: Our lab is hiring a student employee (40h/month) for the development of a new benchmark for ML engineering agents with realistic ML pipelines. deem.berlin#jobs-204356

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Emilien Schultz @emilienschultz.eurosky.social · 01/10/2025

What a banger is skrub @skrub-data.bsky.social ! Big thumbs up for the sklearn team & the maintainer of this package

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I don't know what to say. You dream about it for so long and then when it finally happens you're in shock. I'm so proud of you Larry. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Larry Ellison overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person

Oracle co-founder’s shares rose by 40% in early trading, valuing his fortune at $393bn, just ahead of Musk’s $384bn

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PyData London @pydatalondon.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It looks like a date frame, but Skrub stores the whole transformation pipeline in the magic skb attribute!

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Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🔥CAN YOU BUILD AI MODELS that give you (verifiable) uncertainty estimates in their outputs? Cool talk on ML, classifiers, + calibration www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI6b... by scikit-learn architect @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social *with ninja-level modeling of variance you probably didn't know existed !

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Olga Ovcharenko @oovcharenko.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

✨ Excited to present our workshop paper at DataWorld at #ICML2025 tomorrow 🇨🇦 We introduce the problem of detecting cross-modal errors in tabular data that originate from other modalities. Visit our poster: 📅 Saturday, July 19, 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM 📍 West Meeting Room 208-209

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Olga Ovcharenko @oovcharenko.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Thanks to my supervisor @mersault.bsky.social! Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=JJYHb... Code: github.com/OlgaOvcharen...

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The DEEM Lab is at ICML this week for the first time, with two contributions! (1/3)

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Olga Ovcharenko @oovcharenko.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Our paper "Towards Cross-Modal Error Detection with Tables and Images" was accepted for the DataWorld workshop at ICML'25! 🥳 Thanks to @mersault.bsky.social!

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Stefan Grafberger @stefan-grafberger.com · 30/05/2025

Our demo "mlidea: Interactively Improving ML Data Preparation Code via 'Shadow Pipelines'" was accepted at VLDB! 🥳 We demo suggestions for ML pipelines, similar to IntelliJ code inspections or Grammarly suggestions youtu.be/ePGm1J6S2qk Joint work w/ @mersault.bsky.social @p-groth.bsky.social

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 28/05/2025

📢 We are hosting a DuckDB meetup in Berlin during the week of the SIGMOD conference. 📍 The meetup will take place on June 26 (Thursday) south of the Tiergarten and will feature talks by Amine Mhedhbi, David Justen and dltHub! 📝 If you plan to attend, please register at duckdb.org/events/2025/...

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

We have a PhD opening in Berlin on "Responsible Data Engineering", with a focus on data preparation pipelines that optimize ML models along responsibility objectives. This is a fully-funded position at @bifold.berlin, co-supervised by Julia Stoyanovich from NYU. Details: deem.berlin#jobs-17725

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Sara Magliacane hiring PhDs at UvA @smaglia.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

One more week to apply to this exciting position... and another position on #CausalRepresentationLearning and #ReinforcementLearning for learning provably correct #concepts from raw data opening up soon!

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

We have a PhD opening in Berlin on "Responsible Data Engineering", with a focus on data preparation for ML/AI systems. This is a fully-funded position with salary level E13 at the newly founded DEEM Lab, as part of @bifold.berlin . Details available at deem.berlin#jobs-2225

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Olga Ovcharenko @oovcharenko.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

📢 Our extended benchmark on self-supervised learning for single-cell data, scSSL-Bench 🧬, is now accepted at ICML (spotlight)! Thanks to all collaborators from @bifold.berlin and @ethzurich.bsky.social!

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I was invited to review for the "Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice", seems our work on ML pipelines is finally recognised by other communities as well ;D

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

@recsys.bsky.social Quick question, is the full list of accepted workshops already published somewhere? I am looking for a target venue for the early work of a student of mine. Thx.

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We have openings for student assistants in the DEEM Lab at @bifold.berlin. This is a great opportunity to work with PhD students, implement cool stuff, gather research experience and become a co-author of scientific publications :) deem.berlin#jobs-193487

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Stefan Grafberger @stefan-grafberger.com · 07/03/2025

Our vision "Towards Regaining Control over Messy ML Pipelines" was accepted for the DAIS workshop at ICDE! 🥳 Initial experiments show LLMs are promising for extracting declarative query plans from messy ML code. Joint work w/ @guangchen811.bsky.social @oovcharenko.bsky.social @mersault.bsky.social

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DEEM Workshop @ SIGMOD @deem-workshop.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning workshop (@deem-workshop.bsky.social) will be back at #SIGMOD2025! ✨ 🔗 Check out the CfP: deem-workshop.github.io 📝 Submission deadline: March 21 📢 Notifications: April 25 Join us for the 9th edition in Berlin! #DEEM2025

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We have a **Postdoc opening** in Berlin on Responsible Data Engineering! This is a fully-funded position with salary level E14 at the newly founded DEEM Lab, as part of @bifold.berlin . Details available at deem.berlin#jobs-57624

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We have a PhD opening in Berlin on "Responsible Data Engineering", with a focus on efficiently creating, maintaining and evaluating datasets and pipelines for ML use cases. This is a fully-funded position at the newly founded DEEM Lab, as part of @bifold.berlin . deem.berlin#jobs-2225

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 29/01/2025

✨ Work for the DEEM Lab supervised by Sebastian Schelter and the Data Integration und Data Preparation supervised by Ziawasch Abedjan - Salary Level E11 - Apply until: February 14, 2025 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... @ziamurai.bsky.social @mersault.bsky.social

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 23/01/2025

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Schelter @mersault.bsky.social leads the DEEM Lab. In October 2024, he gave an interview discussing the challenges of integrating data management with AI. #ai_berlin ai-berlin.com/blog/article... 🧵2/4

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 14/01/2025

Many thanks to our guest Gerardo Vitagliano for his great talk on “Making Data Accessible using LLMs.” 👏 Thanks for the great talk! @csail.mit.edu @tuberlin.bsky.social @ziamurai.bsky.social @mersault.bsky.social @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 09/01/2025

Software engineers of the world, I beg you. Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields. Sincerely, Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The @sigmod2025.bsky.social Programming Contest goes into another round. We (Bo Tang, Tilmann Rabl, and myself) just published the timeline and task overview: sigmod-contest-2025.github.io/index.html Thanks to Carlo Curino and @microsoft.com for the continued support.

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Interested in a *PhD in Data Engineering* in Berlin? Our institute has several openings for PhD positions as part of its graduate school, see the post below! And check out the following page for details on how to work with the DEEM Lab as part of the graduate school deem.berlin#jobs-189196

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Proud advisor moment: Today, my first PhD student @arnabphani.bsky.social successfully defended his PhD thesis in front of a great committee of Ana Klimovic, Tilmann Rabl, me, and @mersault.bsky.social (w/ summa cum laude - very good with distinction). Arnab is on the job market, so don't miss out.

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Matthias Boehm @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Happy to share this paper, which was in the making for a while (@arnabphani.bsky.social‬ showed great perseverance and continuously improved the prototype, experiments, and paper presentation).

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 27/11/2024

German Rail: a liminal space where timetables are merely playful suggestions, unencumbered by the strictures of reality

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc opening at the DEEM Lab of TU Berlin! Join us to work on data engineering for machine learning: deem.berlin#jobs-57624 This fully-funded position is part of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD).

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Stefan Grafberger @stefan-grafberger.com · 22/11/2024

Our CIDR'25 paper "Towards Query Optimizer as a Service (QOaaS) in a Unified LakeHouse Ecosystem: Can One QO Rule Them All?" is now on ArXiv! Excited to have been a part of this project during my internship at Microsoft GSL! arxiv.org/pdf/2411.13704

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The Database Capital of Europe

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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loss 🇮🇱💪 @untitled01ipynb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

another golden oldie

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Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · 19/11/2024

SQL! SQL. JUST USE SQL

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Table Representation Learning research @trl-research.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🚀 The 60 Accepted Papers and (tentative) Program for the 3rd Table Representation Learning workshop @NeurIPS '24 are out at: table-representation-learning.github.io! Also, reply or DM @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social if you/others should be added to the TRL researcher starterpack: go.bsky.app/4SNSMRj!

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David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I love thinking about how to get the right information to the right people in the right way. This quest started about two years ago, when I worked together with @mersault.bsky.social on using LLMs for data management. The picture is me presenting @trl-research.bsky.social.

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Johannes Hoffart @hoffart.ai · 18/11/2024

We are looking for PhD summer interns for 2025 in the area of Foundation Models on Structured Data, Table Rep Learning, LLMs and Knowledge Graphs. If you want to work on groundbreaking research on the richest business data available, please reach out to me or apply here: jobs.sap.com/job/Berlin-P...

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PhD Intern (f/m/d) - Business AI Research

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Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Pls repost: We, the DEEM Lab at TU Berlin, are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in data engineering for machine learning. Details available at: deem.berlin#jobs-57624 This fully-funded position is part of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). #databs #datasky

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

First post here! I'm currently researching how LLMs can be grounded in tables, bc they're a goldmine for fresh domain data. We've now introduced the 🎯TARGET benchmark for evaluating table retrieval in RAG pipelines, e.g. QA/factver/text2sql: target-benchmark.github.io Thinking BM25? Think twice..🧵

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