Liane Vogel
PhD Student, Systems Group @ TU Darmstadt
I'm a researcher working toward stronger AI on structured data. My work focuses on how agentic systems can automate data engineering work, and where they still fall short. I'm also interested in tabular representation learning, building embedding models that capture the characteristics of tabular data.
News
- Sep 2026 Paper on TEmBed accepted at VLDB 2027.
- Sep 2026 Presented our work on data engineering with LLMs on enterprise data at VLDB 2026 in Boston.
- Jun 2026 Co-hosted the DEEM Workshop at SIGMOD 2026 in Bangalore.
- May 2026 Co-hosted the BeyondSQL Workshop at ICDE 2026 in Montreal.
- Jan 2026 Received the IBM Research PhD Fellowship Award.
- Aug 2025 Completed a summer internship at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY working on a benchmark for tabular embeddings.
- May 2025 Attended Dagstuhl Seminar 25182 on "Challenges and Opportunities of Table Representation Learning".
- Dec 2024 Attended NeurIPS in Vancouver to present our spotlight paper on WikiDBs.
Education & Experience
- Sep 2021–present Ph.D. in Computer Science Systems Group, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany Data & AI Systems Lab, advised by Carsten Binnig
- May 2025–Aug 2025 Research Internship - Foundation Models for Data IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA Developed TEmBed - a benchmark for Tabular Embedding Models
- Oct 2019–May 2021 M.Sc. in Computer Science TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany Focus: Deep Learning & Natural Language Processing
- Oct 2015–Sep 2019 B.Sc. in Computer Science TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Awards & Honors
- 2025/2026 IBM Research PhD Fellowship Award IBM Research
- 2024 Best Short Paper Award TaDA @ VLDB 2024
- 2023 Best Paper Award BTW 2023
Publications
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* indicates shared first authorship with equal contribution
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VLDB 2027Towards Universal Tabular Embeddings: A Benchmark Across Data Tasks [pdf]
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TaDA@VLDB 2026Can a single tabular embedding model service different tasks? [pdf]
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VLDB 2025Unveiling Challenges for LLMs in Enterprise Data Engineering [pdf]
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NeurIPS 2024WikiDBs: A Large-Scale Corpus of Relational Databases from Wikidata Spotlight Paper [pdf]
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TRL@NeurIPS 2024Automating Enterprise Data Engineering with LLMs [pdf]
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TaDA@VLDB 2024LLMs for Data Engineering on Enterprise Data Best Short Paper Award [pdf]
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TaDA@VLDB 2023WikiDBs: A Corpus of Relational Databases from Wikidata [pdf]
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BTW 2023WannaDB: Ad-hoc SQL Queries over Text Collections Best Paper Award [pdf]
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TRL@NeurIPS 2022Towards Foundation Models for Relational Databases [pdf]
Community Involvement
Reviewing
- NeurIPS 2025, 2026
- aiDM @ SIGMOD 2026
- AIDT @ EurIPS 2025
- TRL @ NeurIPS 2023, 2024
- TRL @ ACL 2025