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Jul 15, 2025 ‐ Meet Olga from our lab at ICML in Vancouver this week! She will present a research paper on scSSL-Bench: Benchmarking Self-Supervised Learning for Single-Cell Data, which was selected as a spotlight poster, as well as a second paper on Towards Cross-Modal Error Detection with Tables and Images at the DataWorld workshop..

Jul 14, 2025 ‐ Our external PhD sutdent Zeyu from the University of Amsterdam is starting his internship with the Amazon Q team of AWS Berlin this week!.

Jul 7, 2025 ‐ Our external PhD Student Barrie Kersbergen (co-supervised with Maarten de Rijke) has successfully defended his PhD at the University of Amsterdam! Barrie’s research on recommender systems has been deployed to millions of users at the European e-commerce platform bol.com..

Jun 10, 2025 ‐ Meet our lab at the SIGMOD conference in Berlin next week! We are part of the organizing committee of the conference and co-organise the DEEM workshop as well. Furthermore, we will present a workshop paper on Towards Automated Task-Aware Data Validation and run a tutorial on Navigating Data Errors in Machine Learning Pipelines on Friday..

May 2, 2025 ‐ Olga and Sebastian took part in the seminar on the Challenges and Opportunities of Table Representation Learning in Dagstuhl, which aims to connect the communities of data management, machine learning, and natural language processing to discuss the future of learning on tabular data..

Mar 25, 2025 ‐ Zeyu gave an invited talk about the efficient utilization of language models for table data preparation at the industry event on Next-Generation Data Management Systems at EDBT 2025 in Barcelona, and subsequently presented our paper on A Deep Dive Into Cross-Dataset Entity Matching with Large and Small Language Models..

Jan 11, 2025 ‐ Stefan will be co-organising the workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning (DEEM) at SIGMOD 2025 in Berlin..

Dec 3, 2024 ‐ We have been co-organising a workshop on ‘The EU AI Act – Developing a technical perspective’ together with our colleagues from machine learning and law as well as industry practitioners..

Oct 10, 2024 ‐ Our research group has been covered in an interview on the #ai_berlin website..

Jun 1, 2024 ‐ We will be present at the upcoming VLDB conference in China with several contributions:

• How Data Management Research Helps to Improve Real World ML Applications (Keynote at the workshop on Quality in Databases)
• A Flexible Forecasting Stack (Industry paper with AWS)
• Snapcase - Regain Control over Your Predictions with Low-Latency Machine Unlearning (Demonstration)
• Instrumentation and Analysis of Native ML Pipelines via Logical Query Plans (Paper at the PhD workshop)
• Assisted design of data science pipelines (Poster of a VLDBJ publication)

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