Founding engineer at an early-stage startup

PhD, The Ohio State University (2026)

dominikwinecki@gmail.com · github.com/dominikWin

Research:

• Video-Native Interactive Data Systems (dissertation)
• Vega-Video: Integrating Video into the Grammar of Graphics (in submission)
• Vidformer: Enabling Instant Playback for Interactive Video Exploration (to appear @ MM’26)
• Demonstration of Vega-Video: Incorporating Video into the Grammar of Interactive Graphics (SIGMOD’26 Demo — Best Demo Award!)
• Optimal Bounds-Only Pruning for Spatial AkNN Joins (Technical Report)
• Crisis Observatory: Extracting Credible Signals During a Crisis in the Age of LLMs (ICDM’25 Demo)
• Accelerating Video Segment Access via Quality-Aware Multi-Source Selection (MMSys’25)
• Photometry of Saturated Stars with Neural Networks (ApJ’24)
• V2V: Efficiently Synthesizing Video Results for Video Queries (ICDE’24)
• Camera-First Form Filling: Reducing the Friction in Climate Hazard Reporting (HILDA’23)
• On the Fly Dynamic Graph Generation for Video Processing (NCUR’19)

Projects:

• vega-video — A Vega plugin for creating hybrid video/data visualizations
• vidformer — A system for instant video results from video queries
• rpSQL — SQL query planner that targets a research database
• Badlog — A robotics data logging and visualization framework
• Chip8 — CHIP-8 interpreter
• Arcs — A robot and control system that uses a scanning LIDAR to map its surroundings
• Asteroids and Tanks — games from early high school