Yicong Huang

Information System Group, University of California, Irvine.

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2059 Donald Bren Hall

Irvine, CA 92617

Yicong Huang is a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate at the Information System Group (ISG), Computer Science department, University of California, Irvine. He is set to graduate in March 2025. Guided by Dr. Chen Li, he specializes in big data management, data processing systems, and machine learning systems. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine as well.

Yicong’s journey includes vital contributions to the Texera project—an interactive workflow-based big data analytics system, showcasing extensive coding expertise and groundbreaking research. His publications in esteemed database venues such as VLDB and SIGMOD feature standout works like “Udon,” an interactive UDF debugger, and “CORE,” a machine learning acceleration framework for streaming data. His interdisciplinary reach spans venues like TOCHI, PNAS Nexus, JAMIA, AMIA, and PloS ONE.

Beyond academia, Yicong’s expertise is refined through research internships at Bytedance and VISA, contributing to projects like the HTAP database and windowed aggregation operators, leading to system patents and papers. Notably, his leadership skills shine through managing collaborative research projects and mentoring over 40 students. In the dynamic field of computer science, Yicong Huang embodies a unique fusion of academic excellence and leadership.

Education

Work

  • 2022.06 - 2022.09
    Research Intern
    VISA Inc.
    • Developed real-time window aggregation framework with out-of-order event support.
    • Designed space-efficient, versatile list for in-memory raw-event storage.
    • Proposed out-of-order handling algorithms, outperforming existing Flink designs.
  • 2020.06 - 2020.09
    Research Intern
    ByteDance Inc.
    • Worked on an HTAP database to support instant query on the real-time data.
    • Implemented TP (MySQL) metadata to AP (Kudu) schema conversion.
    • Integrated lock-free data structure for heap implementation.

news

Apr 26, 2024 I received UCI Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship for 2024!
Mar 17, 2024 Our paper “Demonstration of Udon: Line-by-line Debugging of User-Defined Functions in Data Workflows” is accepted by SIGMOD 2024, demonstration track!
Feb 27, 2024 Our paper “Data Science Tasks Implemented with Scripts versus GUI-Based Workflows: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” is accepted by ICDE 2024, Workshop of Data Platform Design, Management, and Optimization (DataPlat’24)!
Dec 6, 2023 I received the 2023-2024 Public Impact Fellowship.
Nov 9, 2023 Our paper “Wording Matters: the Effect of Linguistic Characteristics and Political Ideology on Resharing of COVID-19 Vaccine Tweets” is accepted by TOCHI, 2023!

selected publications

  1. SIGMOD
    Udon: Efficient Debugging of User-Defined Functions in Big Data Systems with Line-by-Line Control
    Yicong Huang, Zuozhi Wang, and Chen Li
    In Companion of the 2024 International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD/PODS, 2024
  2. VLDB
    Optimizing Machine Learning Inference Queries with Correlative Proxy Models
    Zhihui Yang, Zuozhi Wang, Yicong Huang, Yao Lu, Chen Li, and 1 more author
    Proc. VLDB Endow., 2022
  3. VLDB
    Demonstration of Accelerating Machine Learning Inference Queries with Correlative Proxy Models
    Zhihui Yang, Yicong Huang, Zuozhi Wang, Feng Gao, Yao Lu, and 2 more authors
    Proc. VLDB Endow., 2022