CIDR 2026
January 18-21, 2026 Chaminade, USA
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Sunday, January 18th, 2026
3:00pm
Hotel check-in and conference registration
3:00 – 6:006:00pm
Dinner
6:00 – 7:30Monday, January 19th, 2026
9:00am
Introductory Remarks (PC Chairs)
9:00 – 9:109:10am
10:10am
Break
10:10 – 10:3010:30am
LLMs for Databases
10:30 – 12:00KathDB: Explainable Multimodal Database Management System with Human-AI Collaboration Guorui Xiao (University of Washington); Enhao Zhang (University of Washington); Nicole Sullivan (University of Washington); Will Hansen (University of Washington); Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington)
Waiting to Decompress: The Economics of LLM-Based Compression Andreas Kipf (University of Technology Nuremberg); Tobias Schmidt (Technical University of Munich); Ping-Lin Kuo (University of Technology Nuremberg); Skander Krid (University of Technology Nuremberg); Moritz Rengert (University of Technology Nuremberg); Luca Heller (University of Technology Nuremberg); Andreas Zimmerer (University of Technology Nuremberg); Mihail Stoian (University of Technology Nuremberg); Varun Pandey (University of Technology Nuremberg); Alexander van Renen (University of Technology Nuremberg)
BridgeScope: A Universal Toolkit for Bridging Large Language Models and Databases Lianggui Weng (Alibaba Group); Dandan Liu (Alibaba Group); Rong Zhu (Alibaba Group); Bolin Ding (Alibaba Group); Jingren Zhou (Alibaba Group)
Making Prompts First-Class Citizens for Adaptive LLM Pipelines Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University); Shu Chen (Brown University); Alexander Lee (Brown University); Deepti Raghavan (Brown University); Duo Lu (Brown University); Andrew Crotty (Northwestern University)
Deep Research is the New Analytics System: Towards Building the Runtime for AI-Driven Analytics Matthew Russo (MIT); Tim Kraska (MIT)
12:00pm
Lunch
12:00 – 1:301:30pm
Data Platform Benchmarking and Optimization Techniques
1:30 – 3:00End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure Pinghe Li (ETH Zurich); Tom Kuchler (ETH Zurich); Marko Kabić (ETH Zurich); Tobias Stocker (ETH Zurich); Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich); Ana Klimovic (ETH Zurich)
Survivorship Bias in Industrial Database Workloads Ryan Marcus (University of Pennsylvania); Jeffrey Tao (University of Pennsylvania); Peizhi Wu (University of Pennsylvania); Zijie Zhao (University of Pennsylvania)
A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce Vaibhav Arora (Salesforce); Subho Chatterjee (Salesforce); Terry Chong (Salesforce); Thomas Fanghaenel (Salesforce); Pat Helland (Salesforce); Jamie Martin (Salesforce); Kaushal Mittal (Salesforce); Nat Wyatt (Salesforce)
I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server Hangdong Zhao (Microsoft); Yuanyuan Tian (Microsoft); Rana Alotaibi (KACST); Bailu Ding (Microsoft); Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft); Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez (Microsoft); Vassilis Papadimos (Microsoft); Ernesto Cervantes Juárez (Microsoft); Cesar Galindo-Legaria (Microsoft); Carlo Curino (Microsoft)
Fast Vector Search in PostgreSQL: A Decoupled Approach Jiayi Liu (Purdue University); Yunan Zhang (Purdue University); Chenzhe Jin (Purdue University); Aditya Gupta (Purdue University); Shige Liu (Purdue University); Jianguo Wang (Purdue University)
3:00pm
Break
3:00 – 3:303:30pm
Text-to-SQL, Agents, LLMs, Oh My!
3:30 – 5:00Text-to-SQL Benchmarks are Broken: An In-Depth Analysis of Annotation Errors Tengjun Jin (UIUC); Yoojin Choi (UIUC); Yuxuan Zhu (UIUC); Daniel Kang (UIUC)
Leveraging Query Optimizers to Verify the Soundness of LLM-based Query Rewrites for Real-World Workloads, and More Vivek Narasayya (Microsoft); Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)
BenchPress: A Human-in-the-Loop Annotation System for Rapid Text-to-SQL Benchmark Curation Fabian Wenz (TUM); Omar Bouattour (TUM/LMU/UA); Devin Yang (MIT); Justin Choi (MIT); Cecil Gregg (MIT); Nesime Tatbul (Intel Labs and MIT); Çağatay Demiralp (AWS AI and MIT)
Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control Charlie Summers (Columbia University); Haneen Mohammed (Columbia University); Eugene Wu (Columbia University)
Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First Shu Liu (UC Berkeley); Soujanya Ponnapalli (UC Berkeley); Shreya Shankar (UC Berkeley); Sepanta Zeighami (UC Berkeley); Alan Zhu (UC Berkeley); Shubham Agarwal (UC Berkeley); Ruiqi Chen (University of Washington); Samion Suwito (UC Berkeley); Shuo Yuan (UC Berkeley); Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley); Matei Zaharia (UC Berkeley); Alvin Cheung (UC Berkeley); Natacha Crooks (UC Berkeley); Joseph Gonzalez (UC Berkeley); Aditya Parameswaran (UC Berkeley)
5:00pm
Break
5:00 – 6:006:00pm
Dinner
6:00 – 7:307:30pm
Awards and Sponsor Talks Session
7:30 – 8:30Best Paper Award
Sponsor Talks Talk 1: DataBricks - Nikita Shamgunov
Talk 2: SalesForce - Pat Helland
Talk 3: SAP - Thomas Bodner
Test of Time Award Database Cracking (CIDR 2007). Stratos Idreos, Martin Kersten, Stefan Manegold (CWI) For opening a new research direction into continuous physical reorganization based on query workload.
8:30pm
Social Hour
8:30 – ?Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
9:00am
Distributed Coordination and Consistency
9:00 – 10:15Consistency and Correctness in Data-Oriented Workflow Systems Michael Stonebraker (MIT); Xinjing Zhou (MIT); Peter Kraft (DBOS); Qian Li (DBOS)
Event Horizon: Asymmetric Dependencies for Fast Geo-Distributed Operations Jonathan Arns (KTH); Harald Ng (KTH); Kyriakos Psarakis (TU Delft); Asterios Katsifodimos (TU Delft); Paris Carbone (KTH)
Privacy Meets Regulations: Shaping the Future of Work Mohammad Javad Amiri (Stony Brook); Tristan Allard (Univ Rennes); Boon Thau Loo (UPenn); Divyakant Agrawal (UCSB); Amr El Abbadi (UCSB)
Rosé: Flexible Replication With Strong Semantics For Partitioned Databases Ioannis Zarkadas (Columbia); Kelly Kostopoulou (Columbia); Thomas Graham (Columbia); Junfeng Yang (Columbia); Phil Bernstein (Microsoft); Asaf Cidon (Columbia); Tamer Eldeeb (Columbia)
10:15am
Break
10:15 – 10:4510:45am
SQL and Data Modeling
10:45 – 12:00On the Vexing Difficulty of Evaluating IN Predicates Altan Birler (TUM); Thomas Neumann (TUM)
Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries Amir Shaikhha (University of Edinburgh); Youning Xia (University of Edinburgh); Meisam Tarabkhah (University of Edinburgh); Jazal Saleem (University of Edinburgh); Anna Herlihy (EPFL)
Semantic Data Modeling, Graph Query, and SQL, Together at Last? Jeff Shute (Google, Inc.); Colin Zheng (Google, Inc.); Romit Kudtarkar (Google, Inc.)
Database Research needs an Abstract Relational Query Language Wolfgang Gatterbauer (Northeastern University); Diandre Sabale (Northeastern University)
12:00pm
Lunch
12:00 – 1:301:30pm
Data Integration and Wrangling
1:30 – 2:30Towards Scalable Visual Data Wrangling via Direct Manipulation El Kindi Rezig (University of Utah); Mir Mahathir Mohammad (University of Utah); Nicolas Baret (University of Utah); Ricardo Mayerhofer (Hopara, Inc); Andrew McNutt (University of Utah); Paul Rosen (University of Utah)
The Pneuma Project: Reifying Information Needs as Relational Schemas to Automate Discovery, Guide Preparation, and Align Data with Intent Muhammad Imam Luthfi Balaka (The University of Chicago); Raul Castro Fernandez (The University of Chicago)
A Vision for Autonomous Data Agent Collaboration: From Query-by-Integration to Query-by-Collaboration Timo Eckmann (Technical University of Darmstadt); Carsten Binnig (Technical University of Darmstadt)
2:30pm
Break
2:30 – 3:003:00pm
Memory, I/O, and Data Movement in Modern Data Systems
3:00 – 4:15Flexible I/O for Database Management Systems with xNVMe Emil Houlborg (IT University of Copenhagen); Andreas Nicolaj Tietgen (IT University of Copenhagen); Simon A. F. Lund (Samsung); Marcel Weisgut (HPI); Tilmann Rabl (HPI); Javier Gonzalez (Samsung); Vivek Shah (Samsung); Pinar Tozun (IT University of Copenhagen)
Declarative Memory Services Jeronimo Castrillon (Technische Universität Dresden); Jana Giceva (Technische Universität München); Yu Hua (Huazhong University of Science and Technology); Kimberly Keeton (Google); Akhil Shekar (University of Virginia); Kevin Skadron (University of Virginia); Tianzheng Wang (Simon Fraser University); Huanchen Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Data Movement-Aware GPU Sharing for Data-Intensive Systems Yi Jiang (EPFL); Hamish Nicholson (EPFL); Viktor Sanca (Oracle); Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL)
Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass Till Steinert (Technische Universität München); Maximilian Kuschewski (Technische Universität München); Viktor Leis (Technische Universität München)
4:15pm
Free Time
4:15 – 6:006:00pm
Dinner
6:00 – 7:307:30pm
Gong Show
Host: Andy Pavlo 7:30 – 9:009:00pm
Social Hour
9:00 – ?Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
9:15am
10:15am
Break and Checkout
10:15 – 10:4510:45am
Hardware-Accelerated Query Processing
10:45 – 12:00Rethinking Analytical Processing in the GPU Era Bobbi Yogatama (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Yifei Yang (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Kevin Kristensen (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Devesh Sarda (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Abigale Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Adrian Cockcroft (OrionX); Yu Teng (Independent); Joshua Patterson (NVIDIA); Gregory Kimball (NVIDIA); Wes McKinney (Posit PBC); Weiwei Gong (Oracle); Xiangyao Yu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Raster is Faster: Rethinking Ray Tracing in Database Indexing Harish Doraiswamy (Microsoft Research India); Jayant Haritsa (Indian Institute of Science)
Does A Fish Need a Bicycle? The Case for On-Chip NPUs in DBMS Alexander Baumstark (TU Ilmenau); Kai-Uwe Sattler (TU Ilmenau)
Hash Joins Meet CXL: A Fresh Look Wentao Huang (National University of Singapore); Mian Lu (4Paradigm Inc.); Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore)