 Before we begin I'd like to acknowledge some of our audience members with here today, faculty members of Carnegie Mellon University, students, members of local media, Mr. Ambassador. So my name is Andy Pablo, I'm an assistant professor here in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is a primary student group for all things databases. We have a professor that is ranked first in the United States for the most sigmod and VLDD publications in the last half decade, according to CS rankings. But that would have not been possible without our students. They're smart, they're capable, and they don't know that everything's right and wrong. So we are here gathered today for a momentous occasion. I read a passage, if you will. Tenu Lee is the number one ranked database student in the 2018-2019 PhD edition season. He was ranked number one in database quarterly, number one in the database all-stars bulletin, and then ranked number one in the ESPN sports writers poll. Tenu completed his undergraduate degree here at Carnegie Mellon in computer science in 2018, and he will be finishing up his master's degree next month. So Tenu got into nearly every school that he applied to, which you can see represented here in hat form. So we're here to announce today where he will be going for graduate school to start his PhD in the fall. Now, you may be asking, you know, Tenu's so good, and if the Carnegie Mellon database group is so good, why are we letting him leave? So this was a tough choice, and we spent a lot of time discussing amongst my fellow faculty members. And we decided that, given that Tenu had been at Carnegie Mellon already for five years, that it might be best for him to go start his PhD and the next chapter is career at an institution and with a database research group that was equivalent to us, or nearly equivalent to us. So just before I turn over the microphone to Tenu, I first want to thank the following people for making this event possible. For most, I'd like to thank KB and the T for their moral support, J.L. and Seattle and Ibo the Greek for taking life down hard. And lastly, we'd like to thank Yahoo Labs for sponsoring this event, and you can learn more about what they're up to at labs.yahu.com. So with that, Tenu, please. All right. Thanks, Andy. Thank you all for coming here. This has been a very tough decision, and there are many people that got me to this point. First, I would like to thank my moms for standing by me during all my troubles. Then I would like to thank my friends, letter writers, and mentors in giving me support and advice in this process, especially my Bay Jackie for staying in flight. I'd like to thank professors at these great universities for their time and consideration during visit days and beyond. Sacha here at Carnegie Mellon, Matej Zaharia, Chris Ray, Kebo Fatahalian, and Hector Garcia-Malena at Stanford, Jan Stojka, Joe Halishtine, Alvin Tron and Joey Gonzalez at Berkeley, Sam Madden, Mike Stonebreaker and Dave DeWitt from MIT, Mark DeBalazinska and Dan Sutro from UW, Eugene Mu and Ken Ross from Columbia, Jake Neshpatel from Wisconsin, Dan Avadi from Maryland. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. Adam Belay from MIT as well. I would not be here if it wasn't for CMU that provided me with a great foundation in computer science. The faculty and instructors here made me demand that I'm today. The sweat, the tears, the blood. It was hard, but it was worth it. Lastly, I want to thank Coach Pavel who has taught me the street skills of database research and running a trap. He and I are the same blood type, and he was there for me when I needed it most. Without further ado, I'm pleased to announce that I'll be taking my talents to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Any questions from the press here today? Okay, guys, thank you so much for coming. So we'll be taking one-on-one interviews afterwards for the newspapers, and then we'll do TV interviews afterwards. Okay? All right, guys, thank you for coming. Congratulations.