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[Sept '22] Our vision paper for storage benchmarking in ML is published in SIGMOD Record. Link here.
[Jul '22] My group together with Profs. Eyal de Lara & David Lie (UofT), Julien Gascon-Samson (ETS Montreal), and Aastha Mehta (UBC) were awarded $1.5M funding by the Department of National Defence, as a part of the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program funding research networks [link]. Over the next 3 years, we will work on developing a platform for secure and dependable hierarchical edge processing on 5G Many thanks to the DND!
[May. 2022] I am giving a talk in the Boston University MIDAS seminar. Link here!
[Apr. 2022] I gave a talk in the MLCommons Community Meeting to present the MLPerf Storage benchmark working group I am co-chairing. Link here!
[Apr. 2022] Our paper on stream processing on the edge was accepted into SEC'22! Congratulations to the team!
[Mar. 2022] Our paper on cutting latency in learned indexes was accepted into CHEOPS'22! Congratulations to the team, in particular to the undergraduate student authors, Yong Zhang and Xinran Xiong!! [pdf] [code] [talk]
[Mar. 2022] I will serve on the EuroSys '23 PC , the ASPLOS '23 ERC, and the MLSys '23 PC.
[Feb. 2022] I will give a talk in the University of Columbia Systems Seminar.
[Jan. 2022] I will give a talk on managing mixed transactional and analytics workloads at the University of Toronto.
2021
[Dec. 2021] I will be co-chairing the EuroSys '22 Doctoral Workshop, together with Profs. Valerio Schiavoni and Pierre Sutra.
[Nov. 2021] In Spring 22, I will give an in-person talk in the University of Waterloo Data Systems Seminar Series!
[Nov. 2021] On Nov 19, I will give an in-person talk in the University of Rochester CS Seminar Series on key-value stores for mixed transactional and analytics workloads!
[Oct. 2021] My PhD thesis was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award! Many thanks to the ACM SIGOPS awards committee, and to my advisor Prof. Willy Zwaenepoel.
[Oct. 2021] I will serve in the OSDI '22, and SIGMOD '22 PCs.
[Aug. 2021] DISCS has a new website!
[Jun. 2021] I was awarded a John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) Grant by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Thank you, CFI!
[Jun. 2021] I was awarded a Discovery Grant by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Thank you, NSERC!
[Apr. 2021] Excited to host Prof. Hagit Attiya for an AMA at EuroSys '21 on April 28, 14:30 BST.
[Apr. 2021] I will be giving a seminar on the challenges of zettabyte-scale real-time data management in the University of Melbourne CIS Series.
[Apr. 2021] Congratulations to Yunjia Zheng for winning the McGill School of Computer Science Feng Qian Award for Undergraduate Research!
[Mar. 2021] Congratulations to Brian Hu for winning the NSERC Undergraduate Research Award!!
[Feb. 2021] I will give a keynote speech at the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 21)
2020
[Dec. 2020] I will co-teach COMP-310/ECSE-427 Operating Systems together with Prof. Joseph Vybihal in the winter semester of 2021.
[Oct. 2020] My doctoral dissertation was awarded the CORE John Makepeace Bennett Award 2021! Many thanks to the CORE committee for selecting my thesis as the winner, my advisor Prof. Willy Zwaenepoel, and Prof. Irena Koprinska from the University of Sydney for supporting my application and encouraging me to apply, and to Dr. Ricardo Bianchini, Prof. Vijay Chidambaram, and Prof. Frans Kaashoek for reviewing my thesis.
[Aug. 2020] Our paper Snapshot Isolation Without Snapshots was accepted at OSDI '20! Congratulations to the team!!
[Aug. 2020] I will serve in the SOSP '21, EuroSys '21 and SIGMOD '21 PCs, and the OSDI '21 ERC.
[Aug. 2020] My Doctoral Dissertation has been nominated by the University of Sydney for this year's CORE John Makepeace Bennett Award, for the best Computer Science dissertation in Australia and New Zealand. Each department can nominate one thesis each year. Big thanks to my advisor, Willy Zwaenepoel, for his support and guidance!
[Aug. 2020] I will give a talk at the Roundtable on future of data management systems, organized by the University of Waterloo.