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Phillip Hilliard pdh [at] seas.upenn.edu

I am PhD candidate in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where I research streaming database systems and integrations of machine learning into databases and stream processing frameworks.

Stream Processing Databases DB ⨝ ML inference

Collaborators

Rajeev Alur Advisor · Formal Methods & Reliable AI
Zachary Ives Advisor · Database Systems

Academic History

Ph.D. Candidate, Computer and Information ScienceUniversity of Pennsylvania · 2019-present · Rajeev Alur · Zachary Ives
B.S., Computer ScienceUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County · 2019

Current Projects

Adaptive Processing for ML Inference Queries Optimizing streaming SQL for accuracy and consistency with fixed resources when bottlenecked by ML models.
(Early Stage) · Confident Convergence on Uncertain Data Opportunities for speeding up online aggregation within confidence intervals, applying techniques from reliable AI.

Past Projects

Stream Types Cutler et al. · PLDI 2024
Synchronization schemas Alur et al. · Invited Paper · SIGMOD 2021