SIGMOD/PODS 2024: Destacada presencia del IMFD en encuentros y paneles de debate – Instituto Milenio Fundamentos de los Datos

June 2024 - One of the most influential international data science conferences will be held in Chile from June 9 to 14: SIGMOD/PODS 2024. At this meeting, which for the first time is being held in Latin America, researchers from the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) will present their work, give tutorials and demonstrate computational developments(more information here).

During the six days of the conference, a series of events will be held to deepen the debate in different areas of data science, with the participation of IMFD researchers, students and engineers.

On Sunday, June 9, at the 3rd International Workshop on Education in Data SystemsMatías López, from the Master in Computer Science at the University of Chile, will present a web interface for modeling relationships between entities. This workshop is organized by the DataEd Initiative, to present experiences and research, and to debate about the models of education of data management systems.

In parallel to SIGMOD/PODS 2024 the 17th Technical User Committee Meeting of the 17th Technical User Committee Meeting, of the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC). This is a scientific organization that seeks to promote research in graph processing technologies. Today's meeting is organized by Renzo Angles, U. de Talca, and our director Juan Reutter, academic DCC UC and IMC UC; Carlos Rojas, IMFD engineer, and Sebastián Ferrada, academic of the DCC of the U. de Chile, will participate as speakers.

Diversity and inclusion in data science

A session organized by the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative will be held on Wednesday, June 12. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative.whose objective is to approach data management and its responsible handling from different perspectives.

The session includes a panel, entitled "Global voices in data: navigating responsible management and processing with diverse perspectives", with the participation of panelists Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero, academic at DCC UC and IMC UC, researcher IMFD and AC3E, who will share her vision from her experience as a leader of projects that study how to extract information from free texts with a gender perspective and with a focus on privacy protection.

Also participating in the panel is IMFD researcher Ricardo Baeza-Yates, director of the Institute in Experiential AI, Northeastern University (USA), and full professor at the DCC of the University of Chile. Baeza-Yates will share his insights based on his deep experience in the study of biases and experiences related to artificial intelligence.

Also as part of the DEI session, there will be an interactive presentation to share statistics, comments and strategies related to diversity, equity and inclusion both at SIGMOD/PODS and other related events. This will be moderated by our deputy director Aidan Hogan, DCC scholar at the University of Chile, and Jesus Camacho Rodriguez from Microsoft. The talk is a "Birds of Feather", self-organized year-to-year gatherings of conference attendees who share similar interests.

Knowledge networks

Two SIGMOD/PODS 2024 side events are taking place on Friday, June 14.

At the 7th Workshop on Data Management, Experiences and Graph Systems (GRADES), IMFD researcher Adrián Gómez Brandón (U. de la Coruña, Spain) presents the research "Space & Time Efficient Leapfrog Triejoin", co-authored by IMFD researchers and students Diego Arroyuelo and Domagoj Vrgoc (IMC UC), Daniela Campos and Gonzalo Navarro (DCC U. de Chile), and Carlos Rojas (IMFD Engineer).

The knowledge graph TelarKGwhich gathers and models the data of the 2020 constituent process, will be presented by Sebastián Ferrada, academic of the DCC U. de Chile. This research is co-authored by researchers Renzo Angles, Vicente Calisto, Javiera Díaz, Aidan Hogan, Alexander Pinto, Juan Reutter, Carlos Rojas, Henry Rosales-Méndez, Hernán Sarmiento, Etienne Toussaint, and Domagoj Vrgoc.

At the close of GRADES, as an invited talk, Domagoj Vrgoc (IMC UC) will present "PODS in practice: Can database theory be useful for developing graph systems?", in which he will share the MillenniumDB research group's experience on what it takes to implement the basic theoretical foundations of the area in a graph database engine.

Responsible AI governance

On Friday, June 14, the GUIDE-AI workshop will also be held for the first time, the GUIDE-AIworkshop, whose objective will be to address the governance, understanding and integration of data for the development of effective and responsible artificial intelligence. IMFD researcher Leo Bertossi, from Skema Business School in Canada, will participate in this meeting in the panel "The role of research in database management for responsible AI".