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Ph.D. of Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

Big data management, data-processing system, machine learning system

B.S. of Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

Software Engineer

Databricks Inc.

• Working on PySpark.

Software Engineer Intern

Observe Inc.

• Contributed to the development of a dataset transformer for log store analytics, especially focusing on window maintenance of live data streams.
• Investigated the use of Snowflake Time Travel to optimize data partitioning and clustering for transformed datasets.

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.

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.

Most Promising Future Faculty Second Place Award

University of California, Irvine

Recognized as the second-place recipient of the campus-wide future faculty award.

Joseph & Dorothy Fischer Memorial Endowed Fellowship

University of California, Irvine

Beall Family Foundation Graduate Student Entrepreneur Award in Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

Best Demo Award Runner-Up Award

SIGMOD 2024

Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

University of California, Irvine

Received a prestigious dissertation fellowship recognizing a highly impactful thesis.

Student Travel Award (SIGMOD)

SIGMOD 2024

Public Impact Fellowship

University of California, Irvine

Student Travel Award (VLDB)

VLDB 2023

Best Lecturer Award

CUCS

Recognized for excellence in teaching performance.