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Eugene Wu
Assistant Professor
Co-Chair of Center of New Media in the Data Science Institute
421 Mudd in the DSI space, 500 W 120th St
Database Group
Computer Science and Data Science Institute
Columbia University in the City of New York

email @sirrice github

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Bio

Eugene Wu is broadly interested in technologies that help users play with their data. His goal is for users at all technical levels to effectively and quickly make sense of their information. He is interested in solutions that ultimately improve the interface between users and data, and techniques borrowed from fields such as data management, systems, crowd sourcing, visualization, and HCI.

Eugene Wu recieved his Ph.D. from CSAIL at MIT, advised by the esteemed Sam Madden and Michael Stonebraker, in the database group. He spent the first half of 2015 at UC Berkeley's AMPLab before starting at Columbia University in Fall 2015. Formal and less formal (by @mstem) biographies. An obituary.

He is supported by NSF 1527765.

Recent News

  • Our QueryFix full paper was acceped to SIGMOD 2017! Come see our presentation in Raleigh, NC!
  • Our first (Data+Media):Humans in the Loop speaker series event is Sep 28, 7-9PM! Everyone welcome.
  • There is a nice article about ActiveClean on the DSI website: A Data-Cleaning Tool for Building Better Prediction Models
  • Our NSF proposal with jmh and jheer on bringing declarative database ideas to interactive visualizations was funded! The DVMS train continues to roll.
  • Our ActiveClean full paper was acceped to VLDB 2016! Come see our presentation in Dehli, India. Look forward to our code release later this summer!
  • Our ActiveClean submission won Best Demo at SIGMOD 2016! Many thanks to our collaborators Sanjay, Jiannan, Mike, and Ken!
  • Talk about what provenance is and how it relates to our projects. MIT BigData Workshop 2016
  • Congrats to Niranjan, Arnab, Yifan, Daniel Haas, Sanjay, and Daniel Alabi for getting four papers accepted at SIGMOD's Hilda workshop!
  • QueryFix explanation demo with Xiaolan and Alexandra accepted to SIGMOD 2016!
  • CLAMShell paper with Daniel Haas for drastically speeding up crowds accepted to VLDB 2016!

Current Research Areas

Data Visualization Management Systems

A Data Visualization Management System (DVMS) integrates visualizations and databases, by compiling a declarative visualization language into an end-to-end relational operator pipeline that renders the visualization and is amenable to database-style optimizations. Thus the DVMS can be both expressive via the visualization language, and performant by leveraging traditional and visualization-specific optimizations to scale interactive visualizations to massive datasets.

Query Explanation

Instead of explaining and fixing data using data, which is a bit circuitous, we seek to both explain and repair incorrect data values by using the actual queries that modified the database.

Data Exploration and Explanation

Visualizations are excellent for exposing surprising patterns and outliers in data, however existing tools have no way to help explain those patterns and outliers. We are exploring systems to generate sensible explanations for outliers in analytics visualizations.

Data Cleaning for Data Science

Analysts report spending upwards of 80% of their time on problems in data cleaning including extraction, formatting, handling missing values, and entity resolution. How can knowing the application you want to actually run help speed up the cleaning process?

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