Unlocking the Possibilities of Data Streaming
Data streaming is helping make information more accessible when it matters.
Data streaming is helping make information more accessible when it matters.
DAPLab affiliates have a strong presence at Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), in Seoul, South Korea. With papers across the main conference, posters, and workshops that spans agents, data systems, reliable AI, human-AI interaction, digital twins, model communication, and uncertainty.
The work reflects a core theme of the lab: building the data, systems, and interaction foundations needed for AI systems that can operate reliably in messy, real-world settings. This includes new benchmarks for exploratory question answering over million-scale data lakes, live kernel crash repair, adaptive querying, digital twin simulation, confidence calibration, and model-to-model communication without text.
Together, these papers show how DAPLab research connects machine learning advances to the infrastructure required to use AI safely and effectively: better environments for evaluating agents, better methods for eliciting and adapting to human or AI-generated information, better abstractions for cross-model communication, and better tools for understanding uncertainty.
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President Bollinger announced that Columbia University along with many other academic institutions (sixteen, including all Ivy League universities) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York challenging the Executive Order regarding immigrants from seven designated countries and refugees. Among other things, the brief asserts that “safety and security concerns can be addressed in a manner that is consistent with the values America has always stood for, including the free flow of ideas and people across borders and the welcoming of immigrants to our universities.”
This recent action provides a moment for us to collectively reflect on our community within Columbia Engineering and the importance of our commitment to maintaining an open and welcoming community for all students, faculty, researchers and administrative staff. As a School of Engineering and Applied Science, we are fortunate to attract students and faculty from diverse backgrounds, from across the country, and from around the world. It is a great benefit to be able to gather engineers and scientists of so many different perspectives and talents – all with a commitment to learning, a focus on pushing the frontiers of knowledge and discovery, and with a passion for translating our work to impact humanity.
I am proud of our community, and wish to take this opportunity to reinforce our collective commitment to maintaining an open and collegial environment. We are fortunate to have the privilege to learn from one another, and to study, work, and live together in such a dynamic and vibrant place as Columbia.
Sincerely,
Mary C. Boyce
Dean of Engineering
Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor