Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast
Jack Waudby
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This podcast features interviews with Computer Science researchers. Hosted by Dr. Jack Waudby researchers are interviewed, highlighting the problem(s) they tackled, solutions they developed, and how their findings can be applied in practice. This podcast is for industry practitioners, researchers, and students, aims to further narrow the gap between research and practice, and to generally make awesome Computer Science research more accessible. We have 2 types of episode: (i) Cutting Edge (red/blue logo) where we talk to researchers about their latest work, and (ii) High Impact (gold/silver logo) where we talk to researchers about their influential work.
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S6E29 Mateusz Gienieczko | AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets | #69
In this episode of Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast, host Dr. Jack Waudby is joined by Mateusz Gienieczko, PhD researcher at TU Munich and co-author of the VLDB Best Paper Award…
S6E28 Xiangyao Yu | Disaggregation: A New Architecture for Cloud Databases | #68
In this episode of Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast, host Jack Waudby sits down with Xiangyao Yu (UW–Madison), one of the leading voices shaping the next generation of cloud-native…
S6E27 Navid Eslami | Diva: Dynamic Range Filter for Var-Length Keys and Queries | #67
In this episode of Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast, Jack sits down with Navid Eslami, PhD researcher at the University of Toronto, to discuss his award-winning paper “DIVA: Dynamic…
S7E15 Adaptive Factorization in DuckDB with Paul Groß
In this episode of the DuckDB in Research series, host Jack Waudby sits down with Paul Groß, PhD student at CWI Amsterdam, to explore his work on adaptive factorization and worst-case optimal joins -…
S7E14 Parachute: Rethinking Query Execution and Bidirectional Information Flow in DuckDB - with Mihail Stoian
In this episode of the DuckDB in Research series, host Jack Waudby sits down with Mihail Stoian, PhD student at the Data Systems Lab, University of Technology Nuremberg, to unpack the cutting-edge…
S7E13 Anarchy in the Database: Abigale Kim on DuckDB and DBMS Extensibility
In this episode of the DuckDB in Research series, host Jack Waudby talks with Abigale Kim, PhD student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of VLDB 2025 paper: “Anarchy in the Database:…
S7E12 Recursive CTEs, Trampolines, and Teaching Databases with DuckDB - with Prof. Torsten Grust
In this episode of the DuckDB in Research series, host Dr Jack Waudby talks with Professor Torsten Grust from the University of Tübingen. Torsten is one of the pioneers behind DuckDB’s implementation…
S7E11 DuckDB in Research S2 Coming Soon!
Hey folks! The DuckDB in Research series is back for S2!In this season we chat with:Torsten Grust: Recursive CTEsAbigale Kim: Anarchy in the DatabaseMihail Stoian: Parachute: Single-Pass…
S6E26 Rohan Padhye & Ao Li | Fray: An Efficient General-Purpose Concurrency JVM Testing Platform | #66
In this episode of Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast, guest host Bogdan Stoica sits down with Ao Li and Rohan Padhye (Carnegie Mellon University) to discuss their OOPSLA 2025 paper:…
S6E25 Shrey Tiwari | It's About Time: A Study of Date and Time Bugs in Python Software | #65
In this episode, Bogdan Stoica, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the SysNet group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) steps in to guest host. Bogdan sits down with Shrey Tiwari, a…
S6E24 Lessons Learned from Five Years of Artifact Evaluations at EuroSys | #64
In this episode we are joined by Thaleia Doudali, Miguel Matos, and Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner to delve into five years of experience managing artifact evaluation at the EuroSys conference. They…
S6E23 Dominik Winterer | Validating SMT Solvers for Correctness and Performance via Grammar-based Enumeration | #63
In this episode of the Disseminate podcast, Dominik Winterer discusses his research on SMT (Satisfiability Modulo Theories) solvers and his recent OOPSLA paper titled "Validating SMT Solvers for…
S6E22 Haralampos Gavriilidis | Fast and Scalable Data Transfer across Data Systems | #62
In this episode of Disseminate, we welcome Harry Gavrilidis back to the podcast to explore his latest research on fast and scalable data transfer across systems, soon to be presented at SIGMOD 2025.…
S10E6 Haralampos Gavriilidis | SheetReader: Efficient spreadsheet parsing
In this episode of the DuckDB in Research series, Harry Gavriilidis (PhD student at TU Berlin) joins us to discuss Sheet Reader — a high-performance spreadsheet parser that dramatically outpaces…
S10E5 Arjen P. de Vries | faiss: An extension for vector data & search
In this episode of the DuckDB in Research series, we’re joined by Arjen de Vries, Professor of Data Science at Radboud University. Arjen dives into his team’s development of a DuckDB extension for…
S10E4 David Justen | POLAR: Adaptive and non-invasive join order selection via plans of least resistance
In this episode, we sit down with David Justen to discuss his work on POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance which was implemented in DuckDB. David shares…
S10E3 Daniël ten Wolde | DuckPGQ: A graph extension supporting SQL/PGQ
In this episode, we sit down with Daniël ten Wolde, a PhD researcher at CWI’s Database Architectures Group, to explore DuckPGQ—an extension to DuckDB that brings powerful graph querying capabilities…
S10E2 Till Döhmen | DuckDQ: A Python library for data quality checks in ML pipelines
In this episode we kick off our DuckDB in Research series with Till Döhmen, a software engineer at MotherDuck, where he leads AI efforts. Till shares insights into DuckDQ, a Python library designed…
S10E1 Disseminate x DuckDB Coming Soon...
Hey folks! We have been collaborating with everyone's favourite in-process SQL OLAP database management system DuckDB to bring you a new podcast series - the DuckDB in Research series!At Disseminate…
S7E10 High Impact in Databases with... Anastasia Ailamaki
In this High Impact in Databases episode we talk to Anastasia Ailamaki.Anastasia is a Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Tune in…
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Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast has published 91 episodes since June 2022, covering topics in Education, News.
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