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
Paper > Code - Automated Feature Engineering for Algorithmic Fairness @ VLDB 2021
Ricardo Salazar, Felix Neutatz, Ziawasch Abedjan
Paper > Code - 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.
Paper
Teaching
Master Thesis Supervision
- Approximating NLP model inference in databases, Quirin Ertz (Ongoing)
Projects/Seminars
- In-Database Machine Learning Inference (Master, Summer 2023)
- Machine Learning Systems (Master, Winter 2023/24)
Lectures
- Big Data Systems (Master, Winter 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25)