Lao, Jiale; Zimmerer, Andreas; Ovcharenko, Olga; Cong, Tianji; Russo, Matthew; Vitagliano, Gerardo; Cochez, Michael; Özcan, Fatma; Gupta, Gautam; Hottelier, Thibaud; Jagadish, HV; Kissel, Kris; Schelter, Sebastian; Kipf, Andreas; Trummer, Immanuel. (2026). "SemBench: A Benchmark for Semantic Query Processing Engines." VLDB.
Russo, Matthew; Liu, Chunwei; Sudhir, Sivaprasad; Vitagliano, Gerardo; Cafarella, Michael; Kraska, Tim; Madden, Samuel. (2026). "Abacus: A Cost-Based Optimizer for Semantic Operator Systems." VLDB.
Lai, Eugenie; Vitagliano, Gerardo; Zhang, Ziyu; Chabra, Om; Sudhir, Sivaprasad; Zeng, Anna; Zabreyko, Anton A.; Li, Chenning; Kossmann, Ferdi; Ding, Jialin; Chen, Jun; Markakis, Markos; Russo, Matthew; Wang, Weiyang; Wu, Ziniu; Cafarella, Michael J.; Cao, Lei; Madden, Samuel; Kraska, Tim. (2026). "KramaBench: A Benchmark for AI Systems on Data-to-Insight Pipelines over Data Lakes." ICLR.
Russo, Matthew; Kraska, Tim. (2026). "Deep Research is the New Analytics System: Towards Building the Runtime for AI-Driven Analytics." CIDR.
Liu, Chunwei; Russo, Matthew; Cafarella, Michael; Cao, Lei; Chen, Peter Baile; Chen, Zui; Franklin, Michael; Kraska, Tim; Madden, Samuel; Shahout, Rana; Vitagliano, Gerardo. (2025). "Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing." CIDR.
Russo, Matthew; Hashimoto, Tatsunori; Kang, Daniel; Sun, Yi; Zaharia, Matei. (2023). "Accelerating Aggregation Queries on Unstructured Streams of Data." VLDB. 16(11).
Invited Talk at MITxISC AI Speaker Series, Cambridge, MA
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