Ricardo Salazar Diaz

Ph.D. Student
Room: F-1.04
Phone: + 49- (0) 331 5509-3463
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About Me

I'm a Ph.D. student at the Data Engineering Systems group led by Prof. Tilmann Rabl. Before joining HPI, I completed my master's in Information Systems Management at TU Berlin. Before that, I did a bachelor's in Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá - Colombia. I also have industry experience in analytics, data science, and data engineering.

Research Interests

Data management for machine learning. In-database machine learning inference.

Publications

  • InferDB: In-Database Machine Learning Inference Using Indexes @ VLDB 2024
    Ricardo Salazar-Díaz, Boris Glavic, Tilmann Rabl
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  • Automated Feature Engineering for Algorithmic Fairness @ VLDB 2021
    Ricardo Salazar, Felix Neutatz, Ziawasch Abedjan
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  • A Case for Ecological Efficiency in Database Server Lifecycles @ CIDR 2025
    Bodner, T., Boissier, M., Rabl, T., Salazar-Díaz, R., Schmeller, F., Strassenburg, N., Tolovski, I., Weisgut, M. and Yue, W.
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Teaching

Master Thesis Supervision

  • Approximating NLP model inference in databases, Quirin Ertz (Ongoing)

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