• Jun’25. Participated in NSF Panel Review
• May’25. Hosted Professor Ethan Zuckerman as part of our Data Ecology Speaker Series.
• May’25. Attended and presented at the Workshop ‘LLMs meet Data Management’ at UCBerkeley
• May’25. Hosted Professor Moshe Vardi as part of our DSI Distinguished Seminar Speaker Series.
• Apr’25. Hosted Professor Margo Seltzer as part of our DSI Distinguished Seminar Speaker Series
• Apr’25. Participated in a Law and Technology Society event at the Law School with Professor Bridget Fahey.
• Feb’25. Named Sloan Research Fellow
• Jan’25. “On Data Ecology, Dataflow Thinking, and the Role of LLMs in Data Ecosystems” talk at the AI/ML Affinity group at the US Census Bureau.
• Jan’25. Manuel Cebrian visited our group.
• Nov’24. “Data Sharing” at a IDEAL Workshop on Harmonious AI-Human Systems at UIC.
• Nov’24. “Data Discovery” at a talk series at GSL@Microsoft.
• Nov’24. “On Data Ecology” at a talk series at the Harris Public Policy School, organized by the CAPP program.
• Oct’24. New Safeinsights project Safeinsights project kick-off meeting. Talk
• Oct’24. Participated in NSF Panel Review on “data ecology” and the value of data at the AI Horizons event organized by UC3M in Madrid.
• Sep’24. New Members Join the Group Joyce Chen and Hrishee Shastri join the group
• Aug’24. Presenting 1 research paper at VLDB
• Jun’24. Presenting 3 research papers, 2 demo papers, and 1 tutorial at SIGMOD in Santiago de Chile
• Jun’24. Participated on a day event at a Gartner Research Board meeting discussing data sharing, data escrows, and LLMs.
• May’24. TDSC. The Data Science Conference. Gave a talk on “data ecology” and “data escrows” at The Data Science Conference (TDSC).
• Apr’24. Workshop organized with Neubauer Collegium and DSI on “Data Ecology” - link here.
• Mar’24. Talk on “Data Ecology” at the Data Ingelligence Institute of Paris, Imperial College London, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Feb’24. Industry Series. We had Doug Laney from West Monroe (and author of Infonomics) for another installment of the Chicago Data Night series
• Feb’24. Talk on “Data Ecology” at Harvard, MIT, Brown, UCSD, UCIrvine, UCBerkeley
• Jan’24. Talk on “Data Ecology” at Northwestern and UW Madison.
• Dec’23. Panel on Data Valuation. The title of the panel is “From Algorithms to Application: How to Make Use of Data Valuation and Contribution Estimation in the Real World”. The panel was part of a tutorial tutorial “Data Contribution Esitmation for Machine Learning” at Neurips’23.
• Nov’23. Industry Series. We had Ari Kaplan for the second installment of the Chicago Data Night series
• Oct’23. Industry Series. Along with DSI, we organized the first ‘Chicago Data Night’ in the 1871 Incubator in the Merchandise Mart building (see more here).
• Aug’23. Workshop. Along with Jian Pei and Xiaohui Yu I co-organized a workshop on data markets at VLDB’23.
• Aug’23. Tutorial. A tutorial on data markets presented at VLDB with Jian Pei and Xiaohui Yu.
• Jul’23. Dissemination. The '’Data Coalitions and Escrow Agents’’ from RadicalXchange features our work on data escrows, including the Data Station system. Here
• Jul’23. Talk. Gave a talk ‘Speaker Series & Lunch’ at a Summer School at UChicago.
• Jun’23. Participated in a Panel. SIGMOD’23 Workshop on Large Language Models
• Jun’23. Participated in a Panel. SIGMOD’23 Workshop on Data Economy
• Jun’23. Award. Received SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award
• May’23. Poster Session. Ethics, Fairness, Responsibility, and Privacy in Data Science. Students present their individual projects to an audience of ~70
• Apr’23. Participated in a Panel: ICDE’23 Panel on Database Education
• Mar’23. Talk at NYU, VIDA group
• Feb’23. Award. Government Data Markets: Mapping and Evaluating Problems in Intergovernmental Data Flows support by Neubauer Collegium
• Dec’22. Award. Scaling Data Discovery with the Ministry of Education in Indonesia
• Nov’22. Talk at (invited lecture) AI, algorithms, and human rights, UChicago
• Oct’22. Panel on data ownership and privacy at a conference on Data, AI & Ethics held at UChicago with Marshini Chetty, Lior Strahilevitz, and Molly Offer-Westort.
• Oct’22. Talk at Cornell CS
• Oct’22. Talk at Columbia CS
• Oct’22. Talk at IDEAL Special Program on Data Economics
• Oct’22. Talk at C3DTI Workshop on Data, Learning, Markets
• Sep’22. Talk (keynote) on data discovery at the Poly workshop at VLDB’22
• Sep’22. Talk (keynote) on data markets at the DSDM (Data Science for Data Markets) workshop at VLDB’22
• Jul’22. Talk at RadicalXChange group on PETs and Data Governance
• Jun’22. Talk and Panel at UChicago London Colloquium on Quantum Computing and Data Science
• Jun’22. Co-organized IMSI Workshop on Data Value: Assessment and Evolution
• May’22. Talk at ETH COMPASS Talk
• May’22. Talk at BU CS. Mano’s group.
• Nov’21. Award. Griffin Applied Economics Incubator Grant: The Data Revolution
• Oct’21. Award. Collaboration with MIT CRIPT’s (Phase 2 Convergence Acc)
• Oct’21. Talk at The Dutch Seminar on Data Systems Design on Data Stations
• Aug’21. Participate in a Panel: Scalable Data Curation at VLDB’21
• Aug’21. Talk at MSR
• Aug’21. Award. CIFEllow - Sainyam Galhotra (https://cifellows2021.org/2021-class/)
• May’21. NSF Track D Expo Presentation
• Apr’21. Co-Organized Chicago Data Summit on Data Discovery
• Feb’21. Talk at BASF
• Nov’20. Talk at UC Berkeley DSF Seminar
• Sep’20. Award. NSF Convergence Accelerator. Track D. Data Station
• Dec’19. ChiData retreat in downtown Chicago
• Nov’19. Start at UChicago