On December 20, the ceremony of M. Tamer Oezsu, professor of the University of Waterloo, Canada, to renew his appointment as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tsinghua University and the 21st Academic Report of Tsinghua Software Forum were held simultaneously in Conference Room 10-316 of the East Main Building of Tsinghua University and online. Wang Jianmin, Dean of the School of Software of Tsinghua University, teachers' representatives and nearly 100 teachers and students related to the database field attended the conference through a combination of online and offline. The meeting was chaired by Wang Jianmin.

Wang Jianmin presented the appointment letter of Distinguished Visiting Professor to Professor Oezsu online

First of all, Wang Jianmin, on behalf of Tsinghua University, presented the appointment letter of "Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tsinghua University" to M. Tamer Oezsu, professor, who participated in the online conference.

Professors Tamer Oezsu gave academic reports online

Then, Tamer Osu gave an online academic report titled "Disaggregated & Heterogeneous Platform for Data Management". Tamer Oezsu analyzes current data management challenges such as the increasing size of data and the increasing complexity of processing and analysis, and believes that new computing platforms and architectures need to be explored to improve data processing efficiency. He said the concept of distributed and heterogeneous platforms to support modern data management needs and workloads; The distributed platform can simultaneously utilize a variety of computing resources, such as CPU, GPU, FPGA, etc., to realize parallel computing and distributed storage. Heterogeneous platforms can integrate different types of computing resources for more efficient data processing and management. The demand for big data applications, especially the high number of machine learning models and parameters and storage requirements, can be better served by heterogeneous platforms and meet the challenges of technological change. Tamer Osu finally introduced his team's research results in distributed storage and heterogeneous computing, and proposed future research directions and challenges.

In the question session, the students combined their own research direction and Tamer Osu to ask questions and exchange. The participating teachers and students gained a lot from the report, and conducted in-depth discussions on database management and software development.

On-site of the Ceremony

【Bios of M. Tamer Oezsu】

Tamer Osu is a professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on data engineering in data science, with a focus on distributed data management and non-traditional data management. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the International Computer Society (ACM), Fellow of the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). His textbook "Principles of Distributed Database System" is a classic textbook in the field of distributed data.