Accepted Tutorials

# Title/Topic and Organizers Length
1 Evolution of LSM-Tree Key-Value Stores: A Tutorial on State-of-the-Art and Future Directions

Organizers:
  • Yina Lv (Xiamen University, China)
  • Qiao Li (MBZUAI, UAE)
  • Quanqing Xu (OceanBase, Ant Group, China)
  • Chun Jason Xue (MBZUAI, UAE)
1.5 Hours
2 Large Language Models for Spatial Analysis Queries

Organizers:
  • Mohamed Hemdan (University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA)
  • Youssef Hussein (University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA)
  • Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA)
1.5 Hours
3 Data Discovery in Data Lakes: Operations, Indexes, Systems

Organizers:
  • Ziawasch Abedjan (TU Berlin & BIFOLD Berlin, Germany)
  • Mahdi Esmailoghli (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
  • Sainyam Galhotra (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
3 Hours
4 The Virtuous Cycle: AI-Powered Vector Search and Vector Search-Augmented AI

Organizers:
  • Jiuqi Wei (Oceanbase, Ant Group, Beijing, China)
  • Quanqing Xu (Oceanbase, Ant Group, Hangzhou, China)
  • Chuanhui Yang (Oceanbase, Ant Group, Beijing, China)
1.5 Hours
5 Query Rewrite in the Learning Age: From Rules to ML-Based and LLM-Driven Techniques

Organizers:
  • Shengchen Liu (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada)
  • Verena Kantere (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada)
  • Nicholas Ostan (IBM Canada Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada)
  • Farhana Haider (IBM Canada Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada)
  • Calisto Zuzarte (IBM Canada Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada)
1.5 Hours
6 Data-Centric Foundations of Agentic AI

Organizers:
  • Yuxin Jin (University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
  • Ying Zhang (Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China)
  • Hanchen Wang (University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
  • Wenjie Zhang (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
1.5 Hours
7 Model Slicing: A Data Engineering Perspective

Organizers:
  • Parke Godfrey (York University, Toronto, ON, Canada)
  • Lukasz Golab (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada)
  • Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Chief Data Office, Bedminster, NJ, USA)
  • Jarek Szlichta (York University, Toronto, ON, Canada)
1.5 Hours