====== EPIC Retreat Spring 2025 ======

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===== April 16th, 2025 - Wednesday =====
==== Morning  ====

  * 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Breakfast
  * 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM: Intro Talk
  * 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM: **Justin Lubin:** Programming By Navigation
  * 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM: **Sepanta Zeighami:** Cut Costs, Not Accuracy: LLM-Powered Data Processing with Guarantees {{ :retreats:2025spring:prism_epic.pdf |SLIDES}}
  * 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM: **Hellina Hailu Nigatu:** Using RAG for Knowledge Graph Completion {{ :retreats:2025spring:mrakl.pdf |SLIDES}}
  * 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM: **J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira:** The Language of Creation: How Generative AI Challenges Intuitions and Can Reshape Design Process {{ :retreats:2025spring:zamfirescu_.pdf |SLIDES}}
  * 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: BREAK
  * 10:45 AM - 11:35 AM: //Keynote:// **Sewon Min:** SILO Open LM: Training LMs on Siloed Datasets {{ :retreats:2025spring:sewon_min_training_on_siloed_datasets.pdf |SLIDES}}
  * 11:35 AM - 11:55 AM: **Shreya Shankar:** Steering Semantic Data Processing with DocETL and DocWrangler {{ :retreats:2025spring:docwrangler-april.pdf |SLIDES}}

==== Afternoon  ====

  * 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM:	Lunch
  * 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM: **Parker Ziegler:** Fast Direction Manipulation Programming with Patch-Reconciliation Correspondence {{ :retreats:2025spring:fast-dm.pdf |SLIDES}}
  * 1:20 PM - 2:10 PM: //Keynote:// **Arvind Satyanarayan:** DSLs for Interactive Visualization & Analysis: The Next Chapter
  * 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM: BREAK
  * 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM: **Yiming Lin:** Reconstructing Structured Data from Templatized Documents
  * 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM: **Short Talks**
      * * **Bhavya Chopra:**  Revisiting Dataset Search with DataScout
      * * **David Cao:** Program Sketches with Scorer Holes {{ :retreats:2025spring:marshall_epic_mini.pdf |SLIDES}}
      * * **Asim Biswal:** Text2SQL is Not Enough: Unifying AI and Databases with TAG {{ :retreats:2025spring:tag-epic.pptx |SLIDES}}
      * * **Galen Mancino:** California Police Records Access Project: Update {{ :retreats:2025spring:clean_epic_prez.pdf |SLIDES}}
  * 3:10 PM - 3:20 PM: BREAK
  * 3:20 PM - 3:35 PM: //State of the Lab//
  * 3:35 PM - 4:00 PM: **Panel Discussion:** "LLM-Powered Data Tooling Two Years In: Successes, Failures, and the Road Ahead" - //Aditya Parameswaran, Sarah Chasins, Alvin Cheung, Marti Hearst, Joe Hellerstein, Sewon Min, Fernando Perez, Arvind Satyanaran//
  * 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM: **Poster Session** + light refreshments
  * 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM: Dinner at Comal Restaurant