EPIC Retreat Spring 2025

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April 16th, 2025 - Wednesday

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 SLIDES
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM: Hellina Hailu Nigatu: Using RAG for Knowledge Graph Completion 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 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 SLIDES
11:35 AM - 11:55 AM: Shreya Shankar: Steering Semantic Data Processing with DocETL and DocWrangler SLIDES

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM: Parker Ziegler: Fast Direction Manipulation Programming with Patch-Reconciliation Correspondence 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 SLIDES
- * Asim Biswal: Text2SQL is Not Enough: Unifying AI and Databases with TAG SLIDES
- * Galen Mancino: California Police Records Access Project: Update 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