1. Arijit Khan, Yuyu Luo, Wenjie Zhang, Minqi Zhou, Xiaofang Zhou, "Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG): What is There for Data Management Researchers?", SIGMOD Record, accepted in October 2025.

2. Ziyang Yue, Bolong Zheng, Ling Xu, Kanru Xu, Shuhao Zhang, Yajuan Du, Yunjun Gao, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian Jensen, "Select Edges Wisely: Monotonic Path Aware Graph Layout Optimization for Disk-based ANN Search", PVLDB 2025.

3. Dawei Liu, Bolong Zheng, Ziyang Yue, Fuhao Ruan, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian S. Jensen, "Wolverine: Highly Efficient Monotonic Search Path Repair for Graph-based ANN Index Updates", PVLDB 2025.

4. Zhonghan Chen, Ruiyuan Zhang, Xi Zhao, Xiaojun Cheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Exploring the Meaningfulness of Nearest Neighbor Search in High-Dimensional Space", Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2024).

5. Xi Zhao, Zhonghan Chen, Kai Huang, Ruiyuan Zhang, Bolong Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Efficient Approximate Maximum Inner Product Search over Sparse Vectors", ICDE 2024.

6. Yao Tian, Xi Zhao, Xiaofang Zhou, "DB-LSH 2.0: Locality-Sensitive Hashing with Query-based Dynamic Bucketing", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36(3): 1000 - 1015, 2024.

7. Yao Tian, Ziyang Yue, Ruiyuan Zhang, Xi Zhao, Bolong Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High Dimensional Vector Databases: Current Research and Future Directions", IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 47(3): 39-54, 2023.

8. Yao Tian, Tingyun Yan, Xi Zhao, Kai Huang, Xiaofang Zhou, "A Learned Index for Exact Similarity Search in Metric Spaces", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35(8):7624 - 7638, 2023.

9. Xi Zhao, Yao Tian, Kai Huang, Bolong Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Towards Efficient Index Construction and Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High-Dimensional Spaces", PVLDB 2023.

10.  Xi Zhao, Bolong Zheng, Xiaomeng Yi, Xiaofan Luan, Charles Xie, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian Jensen, "FARGO: Fast Maximum Inner Product Search via Global Multi-Probing", PVLDB 2023.

11.  Bolong Zheng, Ziyang Yue, Qi Hu, Xiaomeng Yi, Xiaofan Luan, Charles Xie, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian Jensen, "Learned Probing Cardinality Estimation for High-Dimensional Approximate NN Search", ICDE 2023 (Industry and Application Track).

12.  Yao Tian, Xi Zhao, Xiaofang Zhou, "DB-LSH: Locality-Sensitive Hashing with Query-based Dynamic Bucketing", ICDE 2022.