PODS Test of Time Award
Joins via Geometric Resolutions: Worst-case and Beyond
Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Hung Q. Ngo, Christopher Ré, Atri Rudra
The ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award 2025 Committee: Diego Calvanese (Chair, PODS 2015 PC Chair), Graham Cormode, and Leonid Libkin
Best Paper Awards
Output-sensitive Conjunctive Query Evaluation
Shaleen Deep, Hangdong Zhao, Austen Fan and Paraschos Koutris
Output-Optimal Algorithms for Join-Aggregate Queries
Xiao Hu
Best Newcomer Award
Differentially Private Substring and Document Counting
Giulia Bernardini, Philip Bille, Inge Li Gørtz and Teresa Anna Steiner
Distinguished Paper Awards
Explaining k-Nearest Neighbors: Counterfactual and Abductive Explanations
Pablo Barcelo, Alexander Kozachinskiy, Miguel Romero, Bernardo Subsercaseaux and Jose Verschae
Shapley Revisited: Tractable Responsibility Measures for Query Answers
Meghyn Bienvenu, Diego Figueira and Pierre Lafourcade
Minimizing Conjunctive Regular Path Queries
Diego Figueira, Rémi Morvan and Miguel Romero
Fast Matrix Multiplication Meets the Submodular Width
Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Xiao Hu and Dan Suciu
Distinguished PODS PC Members
- Mahmoud Abo-Khamis, Relational AI
- Omri Ben-Eliezer, Technion
- Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Northeastern University
- Peter Lindner, EPFL
- Sebastian Skritek, TU Wien
