Oct 28, 2022: New vision paper about controlling data movement in modern storage hierarchy to appear at CIDR 2023.
Oct 24, 2022: Serving on the program committee for SIGMOD 2024.
Sept 15, 2022: New paper about leveraging MVCC for easy online schema evolution to appear at VLDB 2023! Led by Tianxun Hu and collaboration with Qingqing Zhou (Tencent).
May 24, 2022: We will be presenting a tutorial on persistent memory indexing at VLDB 2022, stay tuned!
May 12, 2022: Serving on the program committee for ACM SoCC 2022.
Mar 8, 2022: New paper on how to coordinate cross-engines transactions in systems with both conventional storage-centric (e.g., InnoDB) and modern main-memory engines to appear at SIGMOD 2022.
Feb 18, 2022: I will serve on the program committee (review board) for VLDB 2023 (PVLDB Vol. 16).
Dec 14, 2021: I will serve on the program committee for SIGMOD 2023.
Oct 22, 2021: New paper about performance/cost of persistent memory and next-generation SSDs will appear in CIDR 2022 - led by Kaisong Huang + great collaboration with Dong Xie.
Oct 15, 2021: Our recent work on bringing learned indexes to persistent memory will appear in VLDB 2022 - led by Baotong Lu + great collaboration with Umar Farooq Minhas, Jialin Ding and Eric Lo.
Jun 28, 2021: Honoured to be recognized as a SIGMOD 2021 Distinguished PC Member.
May 3, 2021: A short version of our Dash paper that summarizes the key design principles of persistent hash tables is now available in SIGMOD Record 50(1) here, with a
technical perspective by Prof. Ken Ross.
Apr 23, 2021: VLDB 2023 will come to Vancouver! I will serve as the local arrangements chair.
Feb 5, 2021: I will serve on the program committee for SIGMOD 2022.
Jan 28, 2021: I will serve as the (inaugural) artifact chair for VLDB 2021 (PVLDB Vol. 14).
Jan 18, 2021: I will serve on the program committee (review board) for VLDB 2022 (PVLDB Vol. 15).
Oct 22, 2021: New paper about performance/cost of persistent memory and next-generation SSDs will appear in CIDR 2022 - led by Kaisong Huang + great collaboration with Dong Xie.
Oct 15, 2021: Our recent work on bringing learned indexes to persistent memory will appear in VLDB 2022 - led by Baotong Lu + great collaboration with Umar Farooq Minhas, Jialin Ding and Eric Lo.
Jun 28, 2021: Honoured to be recognized as a SIGMOD 2021 Distinguished PC Member.
May 3, 2021: A short version of our Dash paper that summarizes the key design principles of persistent hash tables is now available in SIGMOD Record 50(1) here, with a
technical perspective by Prof. Ken Ross.
Apr 23, 2021: VLDB 2023 will come to Vancouver! I will serve as the local arrangements chair.
Oct 16, 2020: New paper (CoroBase) about leveraging C++20 coroutines in storage engines to appear at VLDB 2021! Check out the preprint and code.
Oct 5, 2020: With Jian Pei and Jiannan Wang we are happy to announce a new (online) seminar series on trustworthy data science and AI starting Oct 16! Check out our Data Science Seminar website for details. All seminars are freely open to the public.
Jun 5, 2020: If you're working on (persistent memory) indexes and are looking for a unified, reproducible evaluation framework, check out our PiBench Online and its backend PiBench! We will demonstrate it at VLDB 2020.
May 30, 2020: I'll serve on the program committees for VLDB 2021 and SIGMOD 2021.
Mar 12, 2020: Our Dash paper about building scalable hash tables on
persistent memory was accepted by VLDB 2020! Code available here, get it while it's hot.
Dec 18, 2019: Interested in knowing how database indexes perform on actual Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory after more than a decade of emulation based research? Check out our recent VLDB paper!
We have also released an open-source tool (PiBench) for benchmarking persistent memory indexes.
Nov 30, 2019: I received the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researchers) for contributions to scalable data processing.