Xinying Zheng

I am a third-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My advisor at UIUC is Prof. Indranil Gupta and Prof. Yongjoo Park.

Before that, I was an undergraduate research assistant at Southern University of Science and Technology advised by Prof.Bo Tang. I also used to be a research intern at UCI supervised by Prof.Michael Carey.

My research interests lie in the broad area of distributed systems, database systems and storage systems. I have experience in the following topics:

• Recent Research (Ph.D. & Industry)
  • Distributed Embedded Key-Value Store Design
  • Write Operation Pushdown for Disaggregated Databases
  • Building Externally-Synchronous Replicated Filesystems
• Undergraduate Research
  • GPU Acceleration for Apache Hive
  • Performance study for Apache AsterixDB
  • Outlier Detection in edge computing enviroment
  • Large-scale Entity Blocking

My ultimate career goal is to design future-oriented systems and algorithms that will change people’s lives.