Suhas Palawala

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0002-5041-6488ORCID · reported

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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 · 44% Query processing and optimization · 44% Information retrieval · 13%
Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Language models and text generation · 100%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Query processing and optimization
analytical query processing
0.912025
Drama : Unifying Data Retrieval and Analysis for Open-Domain Analytic Queries · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025
Information retrieval
question answering
0.312025
Drama : Unifying Data Retrieval and Analysis for Open-Domain Analytic Queries · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

structured reasoning · 1.7multi-agent system · 1.7data retrieval · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Drama : Unifying Data Retrieval and Analysis for Open-Domain Analytic Queries
abstract
Manually conducting real-world data analyses is labor-intensive and inefficient. Despite numerous attempts to automate data science workflows, none of the existing paradigms or systems fully demonstrate all three key capabilities required to support them effectively: (1) open-domain data collection, (2) structured data transformation, and (3) analytic reasoning. To overcome these limitations, we propose Drama , an end-to-end paradigm that answers users' analytic queries in natural language on large-scale open-domain data. Drama unifies data collection, transformation, and analysis as a single pipeline. To quantitatively evaluate system performance on tasks representative of Drama , we construct a benchmark, DramaBench , consisting of two categories of tasks: claim verification and question answering, each comprising 100 instances. These tasks are derived from real-world applications that have gained significant public attention and require the retrieval and analysis of open-domain data. We develop DramaBot , a multi-agent system designed following Drama . It comprises a data retriever that collects and transforms data by coordinating the execution of sub-agents, and a data analyzer that performs structured reasoning over the retrieved data. We evaluate DramaBot on DramaBench together with five state-of-the-art baseline agents. DramaBot achieves 86.5% task accuracy at a cost of $0.05, outperforming all baselines with up to 6.9 times the accuracy and less than 1/6 of the cost. Drama is publicly available at https://github.com/uiuc-kang-lab/drama.
Chuxuan Hu, Maxwell Yang, James Weiland, Yeji Lim, Suhas Palawala, Daniel Kang 0001
Proc. ACM Manag. Data5