On this episode, host Tanmay Shah chats with  Dr. Joy Arulraj. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science, leading the Advanced Database Systems Lab with groundbreaking work at the intersection of database systems, non-volatile memory, and AI integration. In this episode, you’ll hear about his career journey and incredibly fascinating research across data systems and machine learning. 

TIMESTAMPS- 

(0:00) - Cold Open 

(1:05) - Episode begins 

(2:02) - Internship experience 

(7:17) - PhD journey 

(11:29) - Databases and LLMs 

(17:28) - AI use in improving Databases  

(32:02) - PDF Parsing problem 

(38:00) - Database implementation course 

(40:55) - Rapid fire round 

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE-

1. Bw-Tree - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bw-tree-icde2013-final.pdf
2. BzTree - https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p553-arulraj.pdf
3. EvaDB - https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/evadb
4. TokenSmith - https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/tokensmith
5. Intel Center for Visual Computing - https://www.openedgecomputing.org/blog/index.html
HN comments on the impact of LLMs on education - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477925

7. BuzzDB - https://buzzdb-docs.readthedocs.io/8. Andy Pavlo's Database Course at CMU - https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/9. Uber's indexing system - https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/h3/
10. Rajni Restaurant - https://rajniatl.com/
11. Soldiers and Cooks restaurant - https://www.cooksandsoldiers.com/

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EDITOR – Sid Ramesh