VLDB 2025: PhD Workshop

Below is the program schedule for the VLDB 2025 PhD Workshop:

Time	Speaker	Description / Title
08:30-08:40	Workshop Chairs	Welcome and Opening Remarks
08:40-09:40	Prof. Gerhard Weikum	Keynote: Adventure and Beauty in Data Systems Research
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break Gielgud, Olivier, Burton and Redgrave
10:30-10:42	Anna Dalla Vecchia	Context-Aware Recommender Systems: Challenges in Personalization and Fairness
10:42-10:54	Felipe Marineli	Large Language Models as Control Planes for Industrial-Scale Web Data Extraction
10:54-11:06	Daan de Graaf	Algorithm Support in a Graph Database, Done Right
11:06-11:18	Victor Giannakouris	SwellDB: GenAI-Native Query Processing via On-the-Fly Table Generation
11:18-11:30	Satoshi Kayano	Entropy-Based Anomaly Detection in Evolving Graph Streams
11:30-11:42	Félix Chavelli	Toward Interpretable Methods for Time Series Analytics
12:00-13:00	Lunch Gielgud, Olivier, Burton and Redgrave
13:00-14:00	Panel Discussion	Panel List: Eugene Wu, Tiziana Catarci, Georgia Koutrika, Aditya Parameswaran
14:00-14:12	Riddho Haque	Data-Driven Decisions at Scale: Managing Risk, Diversity, and Provenance
14:12-14:24	Sepehr Sadoughi	Towards Data-Metadata Flexibility in Property Graph Data Management
14:24-14:36	Christopher Zhu	Running Functions on Pooled Data Without Leakage
14:36-14:42	Vijon Baraku	Personal Data Sovereignty through Federated Access and Policy Control
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break Gielgud, Olivier, Burton and Redgrave
15:30-15:42	Maria Ramos	Assessing the Fault Tolerance of Data-Centric Applications
15:42-15:54	Emmanouil Sylligardos	Fast or Accurate? Rethinking Time Series Anomaly Detection
15:54-16:06	Soo-Yon Kim	Modeling and Operationalizing Data Ecosystems
16:06-16:18	Kerem Akillioglu	Optimizing Data Systems for LLM Workloads
16:18-16:30	Thomas Munoz Serrano	Enumeration-Based Dynamic Query Processing for Linear Algebra Workloads in Data Science
16:30-17:00	Workshop Chairs	Closing Remarks