EDBT 2025: STUDENT GRANTS - FELLOWSHIPS

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STUDENT GRANTS - FELLOWSHIPS - PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR STUDENTS


EDBT 2025 Summer School on AI & Data Management

7th to 11th of July, 2025,

University of Cyprus,

Nicosia, Cyprus


https://dmai.cs.ucy.ac.cy/

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The EDBT 2025 Summer School aims to widen participation by providing a

variety of fellowships. Below you can the  fellowship programs open for

applications and relevant details. More details will be posted here

as it becomes available:


A) *** Microsoft Fellowships ***: These fellowships are available only to

students at U.S. universities and institutes. Applicants must

briefly explain why attendance cannot be financed by other means.


A limited number of grants will be awarded:

-- Half grants cover the registration fee.

-- Full grants cover both registration and accommodation.


Awards will be based on the applicant's profile, including motivation,

research background, and financial need. Applicants are requested to

prepare this material in PDF form and share through a URL (e.g., dropbox

URL, personal website or some other file sharing tool). A total of

approximately 10 Microsoft Fellowships will be available.


* Deadline: April 7, 2025 *

* Application Process: Please send your application with subject

  "EDBT 2025 Summer School / US Fellowship Application” to Prof. Panos K.

  Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh, USA) pa...@cs.pitt.edu. Each

  application will be confirmed by email.

* Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2025


B) More Fellowship programs are anticipated to be announced shortly.


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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS


EDBT 2025 Summer School on AI & Data Management

7th to 11th of July, 2025,

University of Cyprus,

Nicosia, Cyprus


https://dmai.cs.ucy.ac.cy/


APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 7th, 2025!

* Registration Open! (Limited Seats of about 60 participants)

* Registration Site: http://tiny.cc/glxb001

* Student Grants will be announced later

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The EDBT association and the University of Cyprus are happy to announce a

jointly sponsored Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data

Management, which will be hosted at the Resource Center "Stelios Ioannou",

University of Cyprus, Monday July 7, 2025 to Friday, July 11, 2025.

It will cover a diverse range of topics around artificial intelligence

and data management, with a special focus on Large Language Models, AI agents

and Vector Databases. It will have 9 tutorials from internationally renowned

researchers in the field, and several social activities. Each tutorial

will be 3 hour long.


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

===================

The summer school will feature 9 invited speakers. The preliminary

list of speakers along with tentative titles (in order of appearance)

is listed below:


+ Prof. Ioana Manolescu (École Polytechnique, France)

| "Interconnection of Heterogeneous Data using AI"


+ Prof. Flora Salim (University of New South Wales, Australia)

| "Foundational AI for Time Series and Multimodal Sensors"


+ Prof. Sihem Amer-Yahia (CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes, France)

| "AI Planning for Data Exploration"


+ Dr. Charalampos Tsourakakis (RelationalAI & Boston University, USA)

| "Algorithmic Techniques in Graph Analytics"

| "Machine Learning in Graph Analytics"


+ Prof. Volker Markl (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

| "Large-scale Data Management in Flink"

| "Edge Data Management in NebulaStream"


+ Prof. Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech, USA & Cyprus Institute, Cyprus)

| "Neuro-inspired AI for Continual Learning"

| "The New Mathematics of Deep Learning"


+ Prof. Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA)

| "Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications"

| "Large Language Models for Spatio-temporal Queries"


+ Prof. Li Xiong (Emory University, USA)

| "Large Language Models and Privacy"


+ Prof. Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California, USA)

| "DeepNN for Private Spatiotemporal Queries"

| "Synthetic Trajectory Generation"


TARGET AUDIENCE

===============

The school will be open to about 60 qualified, motivated and pre-selected

candidates. The school is primarily intended for graduate (Master’s & PhD)

students and post-doctoral researchers, but we also welcome motivated

applications from advanced undergraduate students and academic and industrial

researchers. There are no formal prerequisites, but prior experience in one

or more of the following areas would be helpful for benefiting from the

lectures of the school:


Data Management, AI & Machine Learning, Data Mining, Informational Retrieval,

Parallel and Distributed and Cloud Computing.


A certificate of attendance will be provided to all verified attendees.


DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

========================

The EDBT 2025 Summer School on AI & Data Management community is committed

to the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our

professional activities (https://dbdni.github.io/). We celebrate the

diversity in our community and welcome everyone regardless of age, gender

identity, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, country of origin,

religion, sexual orientation, physical ability, education, and work

experience. We also welcome people and opinions of all political

persuasions, as long as they abide by the ACM policy against harassment.

(https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment)


STUDENT GRANTS

===============


The EDBT 2025 Summer School aims to widen participation by providing a

variety of fellowships. Below you can the  fellowship programs open for

applications and relevant details. More details will be posted here

as it becomes available:


A) *** Microsoft Fellowships ***: These fellowships are available only to

students at U.S. universities and institutes. Applicants must

briefly explain why attendance cannot be financed by other means.


A limited number of grants will be awarded:

-- Half grants cover the registration fee.

-- Full grants cover both registration and accommodation.


Awards will be based on the applicant's profile, including motivation,

research background, and financial need. Applicants are requested to

prepare this material in PDF form and share through a URL (e.g., dropbox

URL, personal website or some other file sharing tool). A total of

approximately 10 Microsoft Fellowships will be available.


* Deadline: April 7, 2025 *

* Application Process: Please send your application with subject

  "EDBT 2025 Summer School / US Fellowship Application” to Prof. Panos K.

  Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh, USA) pa...@cs.pitt.edu. Each

  application will be confirmed by email.

* Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2025


REGISTRATION

============

All Registration options include:

+ Tutorial Lectures

+ Coffee Breaks

+ 5 Lunches

+ 1 Banquet Dinner

+ 2 Dinners

+ Welcome Cocktail (with Snacks)

+ 1 Tour Trip

+ Bus from Hotel to Venue (two way).

+ Registration options with accommodation include Breakfast


There are three registration options:

+ Registration with No Accommodation:                     600.00 euro

+ Registration with (Shared) Twin Room (5 nights):        850.00 euro

+ Registration with (Private) Single Room (5 nights):    1100.00 euro


*** Registration Site: http://tiny.cc/glxb001 ***


IMPORTANT DATES

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Deadline for applications:  Monday, April 7, 2025

Notification of acceptance: Monday, April 14, 2025

Deadline for registration:  Monday, April 28, 2025

Summer school: July 7–11, 2025


LOCAL ARRANGEMENT

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- Venue: https://dmai.cs.ucy.ac.cy/#venue

- Accommodation: https://dmai.cs.ucy.ac.cy/#local_info

- Special Lufthansa Group airlines fares for flights to Larnaca or Paphos:

https://www.lufthansa.com/content/lh/markets/cy/en/event/edbt-summer-school-2025-jul


ORGANIZATION

============

Prof. Demetris Zeinalipour

University of Cyprus

https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/


Prof. Panos K. Chrysanthis

University of Cyprus and University of Pittsburgh, USA

https://panos.cs.pitt.edu/


For academic matters, please contact the organizers

at edbt2025su...@gmail.com


Local Arrangements Contact:

> Help with travel, accommodation and visa issues (if attending outside Europe):

- Email: in...@easyconferences.eu

- Call us at: +357 22 591 900


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