Head of Data, Systems, and Robotics Section & Associate Professor at IT University of Copenhagen https://www.pinartozun.com/ https://itu-dasyalab.github.io/RAD/ http://distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/https://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3muewngvwxk22[not work] Some thoughts after visiting the Van Gogh Museum earlier this month. https://distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2026/08/vincent-van-gogh.html31 Aug 2026 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3muewngvwxk22https://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mrsdlo5xhs2m[not work] On watching scenes of violence. https://distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2026/07/watching-violence.html29 Jul 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrsdlo5xhs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mpnvk34bp22uJune 2026 issue of #SIGMODRecord is out. And so is the new issue of the Reminiscences column. Many thanks to @teggy.org (Torsten Grust), Wenjie Zhang, and Viktor Sanca for their contributions!! pdf --> https://sigmodrecord.org/publications/sigmodRecord/2606/pdfs/05_Reminiscences_Grust.pdf02 Jul 2026 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpnvk34bp22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mnpasqgy2c2b[not work] Since the end of March, I have been in some sort of camp, first to find a new place to live and then to prepare for the Danish citizenship test. It all got sorted out in the end, even though it was a rollercoaster. We start with the latter. https://distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2026/06/indfdsretsprven.html07 Jun 2026 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnpasqgy2c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mklbcv5vzc2j[not work, but still about work] For this month, for reasons I will likely write about later, I didn’t get much writing time. So, I decided to post my write-up for the last part of my EDBT keynote. https://distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2026/04/bananas.html28 Apr 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklbcv5vzc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mki756cojc2uAt #EuroMLSys2026 today, we presented our work on estimating GPU resource needs of deep learning training workloads to aid collocation-aware resource managers. Congrats to the team! Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.17817 Data & Code: https://github.com/itu-rad/GPUMemNet27 Apr 2026 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mki756cojc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mi7i3wqgh224This week I gave 2 talks at @edbticdt.bsky.social. 1) On data processing in space (https://itu-dasyalab.github.io/RAD/talk/files/2026_EDBT_YRS.pdf) at Young Researcher Symposium 2) Thursday keynote on resource needs of deep learning (https://itu-dasyalab.github.io/RAD/talk/files/2026_EDBT_keynote.pdf) Many thanks for the invitation & discussions after!29 Mar 2026 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi7i3wqgh224https://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mh6yzdijhk2b[not work] Shortly before 2025 ended, my #1 partner in crime in Denmark left Denmark. I have been holding onto a post about farewells since then. Here it comes. https://distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2026/03/farewells.html16 Mar 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6yzdijhk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mgf2ag2wv222📢📢 VLDB 2027 Shadow PC is here! @vldb.bsky.social Apply at forms.office.com/e/v1ZmNaPvrn by April 8! For more info, see https://vldb.org/2027/shadow-pc.html Chairs: @zistvan.bsky.social, Tianzheng Wang, Primal Pappachan, & I.06 Mar 2026 09:55 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgf2ag2wv222https://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mfur4hv2c22g[not work] Random thoughts on doing sports. https://distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2026/02/sports-for-health-or-as-team-activity.html27 Feb 2026 22:29 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfur4hv2c22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3metnq4znv22aThis week our partners in DEEP project (funded by @snsf.ch) hosted us in Switzerland. We had talks and lively discussions at UNIL, EPFL, HEIG-VD. Thanks to Pamela Delgado, Busra Karatay Demiray, & Hector Satizabal for hosting us. A brief article on the DEEP project: https://en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Press/News-from-ITU/2026/Research-project-to-boost-sustainable-AI14 Feb 2026 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3metnq4znv22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mdqx5q5lrc2f[not work] January tends to be a difficult month, and 2025 feels so far away already thanks to how January was. So, this month just some recollections for films, shows, books, and music from 2025. https://distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/2026/01/january-blues-2025.html31 Jan 2026 23:16 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdqx5q5lrc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mckfnlckqc2kMSc thesis work of Emil Houlborg and Andreas Tietgen @itu.dk will be presented at CIDR conference next week. Huge congrats to them! Modern storage I/O landscape is very diverse, yet not so accessible. We created a new file system extension for @duckdb.org with xNVMe to help with this accessibility.16 Jan 2026 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mckfnlckqc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/pinartozun.bsky.social/post/3mbtv6a3fdk2dLooking forward to the South Bay Systems event after CIDR on Jan 21! I will be presenting our CIDR'26 paper on integrating xNVMe into DuckDB --> https://vldb.org/cidrdb/papers/2026/p6-houlborg.pdf Thanks for the invitation @southbaysystems.xyz @alexmillerdb.bsky.social !! [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jan 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:edyy2cqrufm7colytk6bis57/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbtv6a3fdk2d