COMP 50th Anniversary Distinguished Talk Series - "AI x DB: On the Design and Implementation of an AI-powered DBMS" by Prof. Beng Chin OOI
Research Seminar
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Date
30 Jul 2024
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Organiser
Department of Computing
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Time
16:30 - 17:30
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Venue
N002 Map
Speaker
Prof. Beng Chin OOI
Enquiry
Department of Computing 3400 3145 comp50.anniversary@polyu.edu.hk
Summary
In the wake of rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), we stand on the brink of a transformative leap in data systems. The imminent fusion of AI and DB (AI X DB) promises a new generation of data systems, which will relieve the burden on end-users across all industry sectors by featuring AI enhanced functionalities, such as personalized and automated in-database AI-powered analytics, self-driving capabilities for improved system performance, etc. In this talk, I shall first explore the evolution of data systems with a focus on deepening the fusion of AI and DB. I shall next present NeurDB, our next-generation data system designed to fully embrace AI design in each major system component and provide in-database AI-powered analytics. I shall also outline the conceptual and architectural overview of NeurDB, discuss its design choices and key components, and share our development plan.
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Beng Chin OOI
Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor
Department of Computer Science
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Prof. Ooi is currently the Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor and an NGS faculty member at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and an adjunct Chang Jiang Professor at Zhejiang University. He obtained his BSc (1st Class Honors) and PhD from Monash University, Australia, in 1985 and 1989 respectively. Beng Chin is a fellow of the ACM 2011, IEEE 2009, Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) 2016, and Singapore Academy of Engineering (SAEng) 2023. He is a foreign member of Academia Europaea 2022 and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 2023. Beng Chin serves as a non-executive director of ComfortDelgro (SGX), VICOM (SGX) and AiDiGi.
Prof. Ooi' s research focuses on the fundamental data and systems abstractions of modern data-driven applications. His research interests include database (DB) systems, distributed (DDB) and blockchain systems (DB X BC), machine learning and large scale analytics (DB X AI), in the aspects of system architectures, performance issues, security, accuracy and correctness.
Prof. Ooi was the recipient of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD Contributions award, 2020 ACM SIGMOD EF Codd Innovations Award, and 2024 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award, and a recipient of the 2011 Singapore President's Science Award. He was also the recipient of 2012 IEEE Computer Society Kanai award, 2014 IEEE TCDE CSEE (Computer Science, Engineering and Education) Impact Award, 2016 China Computer Federation (CCF) Overseas Outstanding Contributions Award, 2013 NUS Outstanding Researcher Award and 2021 NUS University Research Recognition Award.
Prof. Ooi has served as PC Chair for ACM SIGMOD'07, Core DB PC Chair for VLDB'08, and PC co-Chair for IEEE ICDE'12, IEEE Big Data'15, BOSS'18, IEEE ICDE'18, Industry track of VLDB'19, BCDL'19 and ACM SoCC'20.
