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Yaseen Ahmed graduated (MMath; September 2026) with a thesis entitled "MADBench — Measuring Agentic DBMSs: Quantifying the Protocol Tax of MCP-Mediated Query Workloads"
Arman Davoodi graduated (MMath; September 2026) with a thesis entitled "Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search using IVF-based Indices on Memory-Disaggregated Platforms"
Sepideh Abedini graduated (MMath; April 2026) with a thesis entitled "SQLyzer: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Framework for Evaluating Text-to-SQL"
Zeynep Korkmaz graduated (PhD; March 2026) with a thesis entitled "Locality Optimizations and Analysis for Storage Hierarchies of Graph Databases"
Zeynep's work from her PhD thesis got accepted to PVLDB 2025 and presented at VLDB 2025 in London, UK:
Z. Korkmaz, M.T. Özsu, and K. Daudjee. Locality-Aware Cache Replacement Policy for Graph Traversals, Proc. VLDB Endowment, 2025.
Harrum Noor graduated (MMath; April 2025) with thesis entitled ">What Do You Mean? Using Large Language Models for Semantic Evaluation of NL2SQL Queries"
Sairaj's work from his Master's thesis got accepted to SIGMOD 2025:
Voruganti, S. and Özsu, M.T. MIRAGE-ANNS: Mixed Approach Graph-based Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search, Proc. ACM Manag. Data (SIGMOD) 3(3): Article 188, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1145/3725325.
Sairaj Voruganti graduated (MMath; April 2025) with thesis entitled "MIRAGE-ANNS: Mixed Approach Graph-based Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search"
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