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Stavros Papadopoulos (TileDB)
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- Abstract: TBA
+ Abstract: The Databases landscape has changed. We have shifted from monolithic relational database systems to cloud data warehouses and open formats, all the while Generative AI has taken the world by storm and given rise to vector search functionality and integration with LLMs. In this talk, I will argue that, despite the spectacular innovation, organizations have ended up with more complex and fragmented data architectures than ever. I will then elaborate that there is now a need for a more principled and consolidated approach to data management, which cannot be done with half measures, but it is only possible through the hard way of modernizing the Database at its very core to handle all the diverse and complex data and compute requirements of organizations. Finally, I will explain that this concept of a modern database is indeed viable by outlining what we have done with TileDB over the past few years.
- Bio: Prior to founding TileDB, Inc. in February 2017, Stavros was a Senior Research Scientist at the Intel Parallel Computing Lab, and a member of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Big Data at MIT CSAIL for three years. He also spent about two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Stavros received his PhD degree in Computer Science at HKUST under the supervision of Prof. Dimitris Papadias, and held a postdoc fellow position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong with Prof. Yufei Tao.
+ Bio: Prior to founding TileDB, Inc. in February 2017, Dr. Stavros Papadopoulos was a Senior Research Scientist at the Intel Parallel Computing Lab, and a member of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Big Data at MIT CSAIL for three years. He also spent about two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Stavros received his PhD degree in Computer Science at HKUST under the supervision of Prof. Dimitris Papadias, and held a postdoc fellow position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong with Prof. Yufei Tao.