Joseph Vinish D’Silva Faculty Lecturer Distributed Information Systems Lab School of Computer Science McGill University

Mailing Address: School of Computer Science McGill University 3480 University Street McConnell Engineering Building, Room 318 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0E9 Email: joseph[period]dsilva[at]cs.mcgill.ca

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Research interests:

• Databases
• Data Science Frameworks
• Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Networks

Current Projects :

• AIDA - An Agile Abstraction for Advanced In-database Analytics
  AIDA is a Python based data science framework that allows users to write data science workflows in their laptops, transparently pushing all the computations to the RDBMS. Data scientists can perform both relational and linear algebra operations as well as perform interactive data visualizations using AIDA. Current version of AIDA's back end runs on MonetDB columnar database. Work is on for porting this to PostgreSQL. The roadmap also includes plans for GPU support. Visit the project page for more details and publications.

Courses Usually Taught:

Current / Immediate Future :

• Fall 2022
• COMP 206 - Introduction to Software Systems

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