Professor Divy Agrawal featured as a keynote speaker at VLDB 2014

UCSB Professor Divy Agrawal was a featured keynote speaker at the 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2014) in Hangzhou, China. The keynote address was structured as a joint talk comprising an industrial and academic speaker. The industrial speaker with Dr. Agrawal was Dr. Shivakumar Venkataraman, Vice President of Advertising Infrastructures from Google. The two of them spoke on the topic of datacenters as a new architecture from an engineering perspective and from a database research perspective. VLDB is a premier conference in the areas of databases and large-scale information systems and is held annually. This year
it was attended by more than 800 researchers, practitioners, and graduate students from across the world.

In addition, the conference program included multiple research presentations from three different research groups in the UCSB Computer Science Department.