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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!
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!
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.