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Joined the ELLIS society
Aug 27, 2024
As I am moving back from the Bay Area to Amsterdam – permanently, this time :) – I am very excited to become member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) society, and strengthen the roots of my research around TRL in Europe. Expect some “TRL in Europe” initatives to come soon..!
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Table Representation Learning workshop @ NeurIPS 2024
Aug 26, 2024
Excited to organize the third edition of the Table Representation Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2024! Besides hosting the latest work on models/performance/applications of representation learning and generative models over tables (looking forward!), we’ll have some exciting announcements to share with the TRL community..
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SIGMOD recap!
Jun 20, 2024
Attended SIGMOD in Chile! It was fun and busy, Santiago was lovely. Co-organized the DEEM workshop and presented the survey on dataset search in practice at HILDA. Generally, discussions and talks about retrieval, (structured) data semantics, and vector databases had my particular interest this year.
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Awarded AiNed Fellowship Grant funding 5-year research project at CWI
Mar 20, 2024
Thrilled to share that I’m awarded the AiNed Fellowship Grant (worth $1M) to lead the 5-year DataLibra research project at CWI in Amsterdam starting fall 2024. DataLibra is focused on democratizing insight retrieval from structured data through representation learning and generative models for relational tables.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship at Berkeley
Nov 27, 2023
Pleased to have started a new position as postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. I’m looking forward to starting some interesting new projects, and collaborating with the great EPIC Lab!
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Best Reviewer Award PhD Workshop VLDB 2023
Sep 12, 2023
Grateful to have received the Best Reviewer Award at the VLDB 2023 PhD workshop! Hearing that my reviews are considered valuable means a lot to me.
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Upcoming talks
Aug 04, 2023
Excited to be invited to talk about Transformers for Tables at the Transformers at Work (15 Sep 2023), and about GitTables at the TaDA workshop (remote) at VLDB (1 Sep 2023). Very welcome to join!
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Disseminate podcast on GitTables
Jul 20, 2023
Had a nice chat on the Disseminate Podcast w/ Jack about the thoughts and processes behind GitTables, and the potential of learned table representations. Listen to the podcast here, thanks for hosting me Jack!
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The TRL workshop accepted at NeurIPS 2023!
Jul 13, 2023
Looking forward to catching up w/ the latest in Table Representation Learning and performance/applications of LLMs over tables, at the Table Representation Learning workshop 2023!
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Visiting Inria in Paris!
Apr 13, 2023
Excited to visit Gaël Varoquaux and his group Soda at Inria next week.
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Excited to talk about Tables at BTW and HPI!
Mar 05, 2023
Excited to attend the workshop on ML for Systems and Systems for ML at BTW 2023 and visit the Hasso-Plattner Institute. At both, I’ll give a talk about learned table models.
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Tutorial about Neural Table Representations accepted at SIGMOD '23.
Feb 04, 2023
I’m excited to give a (3-hour!) tutorial at SIGMOD 2023 about Models and Practice of Neural Table Representations together with Xiang Deng, Huan Sun, and Paolo Papotti. This tutorial will give an overview of the field and hands-on session.
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Co-organizing the DEEM workshop @ SIGMOD 2023.
Dec 15, 2022
I’m co-organizing a workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning (DEEM) at SIGMOD 2023. Read more here, and I hope to see you in Seattle soon!
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Reflection on the TRL workshop @ NeurIPS 2022.
Dec 13, 2022
This year I co-organized the workshop on Table Representation Learning (TRL) at NeurIPS 2022. The workshop was a great success and received much interest from various communities (NLP/ML/DB) which illustrates the importance and impact of TRL.
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Co-organizing Table Representation Learning workshop @ NeurIPS 2022.
Jul 14, 2022
I’m co-organizing a workshop on Table Representation Learning (TRL) at NeurIPS 2022. Read more here, and I hope to see you in New Orleans very soon!
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Gave a talk at the KomPAKI seminar at TU Darmstadt.
Jun 03, 2022
I gave a talk about “Large Table Models for enterprise data management” at the KomPAKI seminar at TU Darmstadt which brings together AI and DB researchers.
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Support JSys as Assistant Editor.
Apr 28, 2022
I am excited to support the Journal of Systems Research (JSys) as an Assistant Editor. The strong principles around open science, transparency, and rigor motivated me to apply for this position.
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Joined Sigma Computing (again) as a PhD student researcher.
Apr 16, 2022
I am thrilled to join Sigma Computing again to continue my work on table representation models, making them work in practice, and deploying them in various applications.
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Released improved code of Sherlock.
Feb 10, 2022
We released an improved version of the Sherlock codebase, check it out on GitHub.
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Presented GitTables at CWI.
Feb 10, 2022
I gave a talk about GitTables at the Database Architectures group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. Watch the talk on YouTube here, or download the slides here
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Presentation about `Making Table Understanding Work in Practice` at CIDR.
Jan 12, 2022
I gave a short presentation at CIDR about my internship project at Sigma Computing regarding “Making Table Understanding Work in Practice”. This presentation is published on YouTube here.
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Internship at Sigma Computing.
Nov 18, 2021
My industrial research journey started in June 2021 at Sigma Computing where I started as a research intern for 3 months. It’s been an amazing experience!
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We released GitTables!
Jun 18, 2021
We released GitTables: 1.7M relational tables extracted from CSV files in GitHub. The high industrial interest in Sherlock (a DL model for semantic data type detection) motivated the creation of GitTables.