Data lab @ Northeastern

The Data Lab @ Northeastern University is one of the leading research groups in data management and data systems. Our work spans the breadth of data management, from the foundations of data integration and curation, to large-scale and parallel data-centric computing. Recent research projects include query visualization, data provenance, data discovery, data lake management, and scalable approaches to perform inference over uncertain and networked data, Our work is interdisciplinary and we collaborate with scientists at Northeastern and database groups across the world. With Northeastern, we have a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion and its role in building communities and fostering learning and discovery. And we are growing!

Open Positions

Our College is growing with several positions in all areas including data management and data science, at all levels (assistant, associate, or full).  For Faculty positions see College ads.  

We are actively looking for new PhD students with strong background in data management, algorithms, theory, or systems. For details, please see our page on research opportunities.

Collaborations with Sciences and Industry

For more than 15 years, Prof. Mirek Riedewald has been collaborating with scientists from various domains. This includes summarization techniques for digital libraries, data mining and exploratory analysis in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, speeding up of high-dimensional simulations (for combustions), data and provenance management for astronomy and high-energy physics, and reconstruction, tracing, and connection analysis of massive collections of high-resolution brain images. We also developed new technology for pattern analysis with industrial partners.

If your research team or company has reached a point where data management and analysis has become a bottleneck, please contact us. We are excited to learn about real-world applications that will lead to opportunities for novel research, joint proposals for funding, or consulting. Example areas include Scientific applications, graph analysis, medical data, cloud computing.

Recent or Upcoming Courses

Spring 2021: cs7240: Principles of scalable data management: theory, algorithms, and database systems
Spring 2021: cs6240: Parallel Data Processing in MapReduce
Fall 2020: cs3200: Database design

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