news

Sep 14, 2026 Interviewed by TribLive on the risks of AI
Sep 02, 2026 Excited to be part of HAIL’s Academic Advisory Committee.
Sep 01, 2026 Starting my 25th year at the University of Pittsburgh. Grateful for a quarter century of students, colleagues, and research. Looking forward to the next 25 (just kidding!).
Aug 24, 2026 Fall semester is underway — teaching CS 1656: Introduction to Data Science and CMPINF 2120: Applied Predictive Modeling for Pitt’s Master of Data Science program.
Jun 11, 2026 Serving as a Senior PC member for ICDE 2027. First submission deadline today, second submission deadline November 11.
May 17, 2026 Our paper on Embedding-Based SQL Query Similarity for Spatiotemporal Data Exploration has been accepted to the IEEE MDM 2026 conference to be held in Athens, Greece in June.
May 08, 2026 New website up and running at labrinidis.com
May 06, 2026 I started blogging on Medium! My first post is The Missing Feature in Claude Projects — And a 30-Second Workaround
May 06, 2026 My first PhD student, Dr. Huiming Qu (VP of Data Science at Home Depot), was the keynote speaker at the SCI graduation ceremony
Apr 28, 2026 AI Teaching Field Notes: Learning to Trust (But Verify)
Mar 24, 2026 Serving as a Senior PC Member at the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2027).
Nov 12, 2025 Presented our work at CASCON 2025
Feb 28, 2023 Recognized as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor
Jan 11, 2023 New website up and running
Jan 03, 2023 Our Big Data paper surpasses 25,000 downloads
Dec 22, 2022 Teaching Introduction to Data Science in the Spring 2023 term
Dec 21, 2022 ADMT Lab Research Internships (Spring 2023)