Biography

I am a first-year PhD student at University of Arizona, advised by Prof. Lei Cao. I received my B.Eng degree at Sun Yat-Sen University in 2022. After that, I worked at Tencent CDB/TDSQL-C team as a software engineer for two years. I am also fortunate to start my first research journey with Prof. Qizhen Zhang.

Publication

HotHash: Cache-aware Load Balancing for Cloud Data Systems
Junyong Zhao, Zui Chen, Jia Yuan, Yi Lu, Lei Cao, Sam Madden
VLDB 2025(under revision)

SCompression: Enhancing Database Knob Tuning Efficiency Through Slice-Based Workload Compression
Baoqing Cai, Yu Liu, Ma Lin, Bingcheng Lian, Ke Zhou, Jia Yuan, Jie Yang, Xiaofan Cai
VLDB 2025

Education

University of Arizona [Aug. 2024 ~]
Major: Computer Science
advisor: Prof. Lei Cao

Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), B.Eng. [Sep. 2018 ~ Jun. 2022]
Major: Computer Science

Experience

University of Toronto

remote intern
advisor: Prof. Qizhen Zhang
Projects: Hyperscal data shuffle, eg. spark data shuffle

Tencent

full time engineer
advisor: Jiashu Xing
Projects: Cardinality estimation, CDBTune - Project Phase Ⅱ, Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis System, CDB Workload Generation/Replay(Highlight Project)

Hobby

Marathon, Music, Cuisine


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