Walter Cai

Conference Papers

• DeepEverest: Accelerating Declarative Top-K Queries for Deep Neural Network Interpretation
  D. He, M. Daum, W. Cai, M. Balazinska
  VLDB 2022

• Optimization of Threshold Functions over Streams
  W. Cai, P. Bernstein, W. Wu, B. Chandramouli
  VLDB 2021

• Mosaic: A Sample-Based Database System of Open World Query Processing
  L. Orr, S. Ainsworth, K. Jamieson, W. Cai, M. Balazinska, D. Suciu
  CIDR 2020

• Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation: Tighter Upper Bounds for Intermediate Join Cardinalities
  W. Cai, D. Suciu, M. Balazinska
  Extended Slides
  SIGMOD 2019

• Fast Generation and Tracking of GNSS Visibility and Dilution-of-Precision Regions Using Level Set Methods
  N. Stack, W. Cai, S. Manifold, A. Perez-Gea, S. Scuro, J. Papac, Y. Landa, J. Cruz, P. Massatt, F. Fritzen
  ION GNSS+ 2014

• The Gardener’s Problem for Web Information Monitoring
  B. Gao, M. Xia, W. Cai, D. Anastasiu
  CIKM 2009

Presentations

• Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation
  
  • UW CSE Affiliates Research Day (November 20, 2019)
  • UWDB Affiliates Workshop 2019 (July 19, 2019)
  • SIGMOD 2019 (July 2, 2019)
  • Google (June 7, 2019)
  • RelationalAI (April 23, 2019)
  • SIGMOD 2018 Student Research Competition (June 12, 2018)

Theses and Reports

• Extremal 1-Cycle Lifespan Behavior under the Vietoris-Rips Complex
  Walter Cai
  Cornell 2014 Honors Thesis