I attended the 26th Conference on Mobile Data Management (IEEE MDM 2025) and presented a demonstration for Texera.
Jun 3, 2025
I gave a talk at DECADE event 2025, titled “From 100 Applications to 9 Offers: Lessons from the Academic and Industry Job Market”. I also attended a panel to share insights about academic job market this year.
May 31, 2025
I’m honored to be featured in a UCI Graduate Division spotlight: Grad Hooding Q&A – Yicong Huang. Grateful to UCI for the incredible journey and support over the years!
May 30, 2025
Our tutorial titled “ML-Asset Management: Curation, Discovery, and Utilization” was accepted at the VLDB, 2025. It’s a joint work with Case Western Reserve University and National University of Singapore. The tutorial will be held at London, UK in September, 2025. Thanks Mengying Wang for leading the effort!
Apr 1, 2025
I received two fellowships: Beall Family Foundation Graduate Student Entrepreneur Award in Computer Science for $5,000 and Joseph & Dorothy Fischer Memorial Endowed Fellowship for $3,000. Thanks for the support!
Apr 1, 2025
I will serve as the Web/Publicity Chair for SIGMOD 2027. Let’s make SIGMOD 2027 a great success!
Mar 14, 2025
I gave an invited talk at the University at Buffalo.
Mar 11, 2025
I gave an invited talk at Lehigh University.
Mar 8, 2025
I gave an invited talk at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Mar 4, 2025
I gave an invited talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Feb 26, 2025
I gave an invited talk at Purdue University.
Feb 22, 2025
I gave an invited talk at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Feb 19, 2025
I gave an invited talk at Amazon Web Services.
Feb 18, 2025
I gave an invited talk at Arizona State University.
Feb 14, 2025
I gave an invited talk at Santa Clara University.
Nov 24, 2024
As the main instructor, together with the Texera team from UCI and Prof. Phuong Nguyen from Cerritos College, I hosted a workshop called Data Science for Everyone.
Nov 15, 2024
Our paper “IcedTea: Efficient and Responsive Time-Travel Debugging in Dataflow Systems” is accepted by VLDB 2025!
Oct 29, 2024
Our paper “DS4ALL: Teaching High-School Students Data Science and AI/ML Using the Texera Workflow Platform as a Service” is accepted by Data Science Education K-12: Research to Practice Conference (DSE-K12’25)!
Sep 26, 2024
I gave a tech talk at Databricks Inc. titled “Texera and Interactive Debugging in Distributed Data Processing Systems”.
Aug 31, 2024
I attended VLDB 2024 in Guangzhou, China, presenting the research paper for Texera, the system we have been building for the past 8 years!
Aug 6, 2024
Our paper “Pasta: A Cost-Based Optimizer for Generating Pipelining Schedules for Dataflow DAGs”, is accepted by SIGMOD 2025!
Jun 13, 2024
I attended SIGMOD 2024 in Santiago, Chile, presenting a research paper and a demo for Udon, the line-by-line UDF debugger on big data systems. Our demonstration won the Best Demo Runner Up Award!
May 24, 2024
I was honored to attend ISG Reunion 2024, and presented our team’s work! Check out the news and the talk here!
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!
Nov 2, 2023
Our paper “The marketing and perceptions of non-tobacco blunt wraps on Twitter” is accepted by Substance Use and Misuse, 2023!
Sep 4, 2023
I have attended VLDB 2023 and presented a demo paper with title “Demo of QueryBooster: Supporting Middleware-Based SQL Query Rewriting as a Service” as a guest presenter. Great work, Qiushi Bai! Our group also had presentations for two research papers and a tutorial.
Aug 22, 2023
I have attended CNCM 2023 and presented a poster with title “Efficient Mouse Brain Image Processing Using Collaborative Data Workflows on Texera”.
Aug 12, 2023
I have attended KDD 2023 and presented a poster with title “Using Texera to Characterize Climate Change Discussions on Twitter During Wildfires”.
Aug 11, 2023
Our paper “Udon: Efficient Debugging of User-Defined Functions in Big Data Systems with Line-by-Line Control” is accepted by SIGMOD, 2024!
Aug 7, 2023
I posted a new blog “Enhancing the UDF Editor by Adding Language Server Support” at Texera blogs.
Jun 27, 2023
I posted a new blog “Using Texera to Perform Single-cell RNA Sequencing Analysis with R Language” at Texera blogs.