Shreya Shankar's Full Stack Data Lab moving to CMU in 2027, recruiting DB/HCI/AI students
sh_reya · x · 2026-11-13
Shreya Shankar announced her Full Stack Data Lab will move to Carnegie Mellon University in 2027, aiming to redesign systems so AI can power data analysis, BI, and knowledge work with a user-centered, full-stack approach.
Three ongoing projects:
- DocETL: an agentic map-reduce system for processing large unstructured datasets with LLMs (with Berkeley's EPIC Data Lab)
- Quail: an execution engine for AI functions in SQL using open-source LLMs, optimizing KV-cache hits and GPU throughput
- DocWriter: an IDE for AI-assisted writing
Research interests span interactive-latency analytics over all data types, emerging applications like agent monitoring, novel UIs for information-dense human-AI collaboration, and theories of human perception for text/unstructured-data visualization. The lab is hiring PhD students (via CMU CSD/HCII), postdocs, and undergrads; recent blog posts cover bulk AI text generation, trie-tree classification, and costing AI-powered filters.
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