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  • Apr 6, 2023: Serving on the program committee for EuroSys 2024.
  • Feb 19, 2023: Serving on the program committee and artifact chair for VLDB 2024/PVLDB 17.
  • Dec 22, 2022: Our Skeena paper about cross-engine transactions is selected for the 2023 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award!
  • Dec 7, 2022: Danica Porobic and I are going to host the first Workshop on Simplicity in Management of Data (SiMoD) at SIGMOD 2023 to promote simple but effective ideas in data systems - more details to come, stay tuned! please submit your best work!
  • 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).
  • Sept 9, 2022: Our Trustworthy Data Science and AI seminar series will continue this fall with the first talk by Dr. Wang-Chiew Tan on Sept 19! Check out details here.
  • Jun 30, 2022: Two papers on updatable learned index performance and efficient data loading from databases to data frames to appear at VLDB 2022.
  • Jun 15, 2022: New paper that analyses new persistent memory indexes to appear at VLDB 2022.
  • Jun 15, 2022: Honoured to be recognized as a SIGMOD 2022 Distinguished PC Member.
  • 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).
  • Jan 12, 2022: Our Trustworthy Data Science and AI seminar series will return this spring with the first talk happening on Jan 26! Check out details here.
  • 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 22, 2021: Our Trustworthy Data Science and AI seminar series will return with a great lineup of speakers in Spring 2021! Check out details here.
  • 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.
  • Feb 22, 2021: Our Trustworthy Data Science and AI seminar series will return with a great lineup of speakers in Spring 2021! Check out details here.
  • 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).
  • Dec 19, 2020: Our Dash paper about scaling dynamic hash tables on persistent memory was selected for the 2021 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award!
  • Dec 4, 2020: CoroBase recently covered by Hacker News.
  • 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.