CSE PhD student Ran Rui was awarded Best Paper Runner-up at the 29th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM2017, Chicago) for a paper titled "Fast Equi-Join Algorithms on GPUs: Design and Implementation". The paper is co-authored by Ran's PhD advisor, Dr. Yicheng Tu.
The SSDBM conference focuses on scientific data analysis and database management. It brings together scientific domain experts, database researchers, practitioners, and developers for the presentation and exchange of current research results on concepts, tools, and techniques for scientific and statistical database applications.