Bulletin of the Technical Committee on

Data
Engineering

March 2026 Vol. 50 No. 1   IEEE Computer Society

Letters

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief   Haixun Wang 1
Letter from the Special Issue Editor   Fatma Özcan 3

Special Issue on LLM-Powered Data Processing

Agentic Data Environments    
    Elaine Ang, Chenxi Huang, Georgios Liargkovas, Jerry Liu, Jinhui Liu, Nikos Pagonas, Charlie Summers, Haonan Wang, Jiakai Xu, Tianle Zhou, Yusen Zhang, Zhou Yu, Zhuo Zhang, Tianyi Peng, Kostis Kaffes, Eugene Wu 5
Architecting the AI-Powered Agentic Data Cloud  
    Yeounoh Chung, Thibaud Hottelier, Cosmin Arad, Brenton Milne, Per Jacobsson, Sam Idicula, Fatma Özcan, Alon Halevy, Yannis Papakonstantinou 22
The Duality between Large Language Models and Data Management System    
    M. Tamer Özsu, Kerem Akillioglu, Xiangru Jian 40
Towards AI-Native Data Systems with the Semantic Operator Model and LOTUS    
    Liana Patel, Carlos Guestrin, Matei Zaharia 59
Optimal Block Nested Loops Implementations for Semantic Joins    
    Immanuel Trummer 74
The Future Is Bespoke: Synthesizing One-Size-Fits-One DBMSs with LLM Coding Agents    
    Timo Eckmann, Matthias Jasny, Johannes Wehrstein, Carsten Binnig 88

Conference and Journal Notices

TCDE Membership Form   104