VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Midhun Kaippillil Venugopalan
dblp:415/9848
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data integration and cleaning · 50% Distributed and cloud data management · 50% | |
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Cloud and datacenter computing · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data integration and cleaning
data exchange |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Enter the Warp: Fast and Adaptive Data Transfer with XDBC · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
modular physical implementations · 1.7automatic tuning · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Enter the Warp: Fast and Adaptive Data Transfer with XDBCabstractFast and scalable data transfer is crucial in today's decentralized data ecosystems and data-driven applications, including extraction-transformation-loading (ETL) pipelines, and data science workflows. Transfers often occur across heterogeneous environments—ranging from cloud-hosted systems to local consumer devices—with varying compute and network constraints. However, existing solutions struggle to balance performance with generality across such diverse setups. We recently proposed XDBC, a holistic data transfer framework that decomposes the pipeline into logical components with multiple physical implementations per component. Its modular architecture enables seamless system integration and automatic tuning based on workload and environment characteristics. In this demonstration, we present Enter the Warp, an interactive game built around XDBC that visualizes data transfer as a space mission. Players configure transfer parameters, monitor live throughput metrics, and optimize performance to shield Earth from meteor strikes, gaining an understanding and hands-on experience of data transfer challenges in an engaging and intuitive way. Haralampos Gavriilidis, Joel Ziegler, Midhun Kaippillil Venugopalan, Benedikt Didrich, Matthias Boehm 0001, Volker Markl |
Proc. VLDB Endow. | 3 |