news

Oct 2026
Our paper "Mind the Buffer: Dissecting the LSM-Buffer Design Space" is accepted for publication in VLDB 2027.
Sep 2026
Our paper "Eliminating the Hidden Cost of Zone Management in ZNS SSDs" is accepted for publication in VLDB 2027.
Sep 2026
I will serve in the Program Committee of SIGMOD Demo 2027.
Sep 2026
I will serve in the Program Committee of EDBT Demo 2027.
Jul 2026
Our paper "TexBench: Harnessing LLMs for Efficient Key-Value Benchmarking" is accepted for publication in TPCTC 2026.
Jun 2026
I will serve in the Program Committee of ICDE 2027.
May 2026
Our demonstration paper "TexBench: A Unified Benchmarking Suite for Shifting Workloads" is accepted for publication in VLDB 2026.
Apr 2026
Our paper "ZARC: Re-inventing Zone Allocation for LSMs on ZNS SSD" is accepted for publication in DaMoN 2026.
Mar 2026
Our paper "RangeReduce: Query-Driven LSM Compactions" is accepted for publication in IEEE ICDE 2026.
Feb 2026
I will serve in the Program Committee of VLDB 2027.
Jan 2026
I will serve in the Program Committee of VLDB Demo 2026.
Dec 2025
I will serve in the Program Committee of EDBT 2027.
Oct 2025
I will serve in the Program Committee of SIGMOD 2026.
Oct 2025
I will serve in the Program Committee of ICDE Demo 2026.
Oct 2025
I will serve in the Program Committee of SIGMOD Demo 2026.
Sep 2025
I will serve as the General Co-Chair of North-East Database Day 2026.
Sep 2025
I will serve in the Program Committee of IEEE BigData 2025.
Aug 2025
Our paper "Tectonic: Bridging Synthetic and Real-World Workloads for Key-Value Benchmarking" is accepted for publication in TPCTC 2025.
Jul 2025
I will serve as the Proceedings Chair of PVLDB 2025 - 2026.
Mar 2025
I will serve in the Program Committee of ADMS 2025.
Feb 2025
I will serve in the Program Committee of VLDB Demo 2025.
Jan 2025
I will serve in the Program Committee of VLDB 2026.
Nov 2024
I will be delivering a talk on "Building Deletion-Compliant Data Systems" at Williams College.
Oct 2024
Our paper "QuIT your B+-tree for the Quick Insertion Tree" is accepted for publication in EDBT 2025.
Aug 2024
I will serve as the General Chair of North-East Database Day 2025 to be held at Brandeis on Jan 9, 2025.
Jun 2024
I will serve in the Program Committee of SIGMOD Demo 2025.
May 2024
Our paper "Anatomy of the LSM Memory Buffer: Insights & Implications" is accepted for publication in DBTest 2024.
May 2024
Our paper "KVBench: A Key-Value Benchmarking Suite" is accepted for publication in DBTest 2024.
Apr 2024
I will serve as the Program Chair of North-East Database Day 2024.
Apr 2024
I will be delivering a guest lecture on "Toward Privacy-Aware Data Systems" at Boston University.
Mar 2024
I will serve in the Program Committee of IEEE BigData 2024.
Feb 2024
I will serve as the Proceedings Chair of PVLDB 2024 - 2025.
Jan 2024
I will serve in the Program Committee of VLDB 2025.
Oct 2023
I will serve in the Program Committee of SEAGraph 2024.
Aug 2023
I will serve as the Poster Chair of ACM SoCC 2023.
Apr 2023
Our paper "Enabling Timely and Persistent Deletion in LSM-Engines" is accepted for publication in ACM TODS.
Mar 2023
I am excited to announce that I will be joining Brandeis University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Fall 2023.
Mar 2023
Our demonstration paper "Acheron: Persisting Tombstones in LSM Engines" is accepted for publication in SIGMOD 2023. [Demo]
Mar 2023
I will serve in the Program Committee of VLDB Demo 2023.
Feb 2023
I will serve in the Program Committee of IEEE BigData 2023.
Jan 2023
Our tutorial on "The LSM Design Space and its Read Optimizations" is accepted for publication in ICDE 2023.
Dec 2022
Our paper "Indexing for Near-Sorted Data" is accepted for publication in ICDE 2023.
Nov 2022
I will be delivering a talk on "Constructing and Analyzing the LSM Compaction Design Space" at MongoDB.
Oct 2022
I will be delivering an invited talk on "Toward Building Deletion-Compliant Data Systems" at HPTS 2022. [Slides]
Aug 2022
Our paper "BoDS: A Benchmark on Data Sortedness" is accepted for publication in TPCTC 2022.
May 2022
I will serve as the Sponsorship Chair and in the Program Committee of ACM SoCC 2022.
Apr 2022
I will serve in the Program Committee of EDBT 2023.
Mar 2022
Our demonstration paper "Compactionary: A Dictionary for LSM Compactions" is accepted for publication in SIGMOD 2022. [Demo]
Mar 2022
Our tutorial on "Dissecting, Designing, and Optimizing LSM-based Data Stores" is accepted for publication in SIGMOD 2022. [Talk]
Mar 2022
Our invited paper on "Building Deletion-Compliant Data Systems" is now published in IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin.
Feb 2022
Our paper "Query Language Support for Timely Data Deletion" is accepted for publication in EDBT 2022. [Talk]