Expertise:
I am a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google, focusing on database efficiency research at scale and in emergent areas. My research interests revolve around data systems at the intersection of database management systems, data mining, probabilistic algorithms, machine learning, and distributed systems.I received my Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2025 and my B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020, under the unwavering support of Prof. Yongjoo Park, the CreateLab members, Prof. Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Prof. Scott Niekum, Caleb C. Chuck, and Prof. Cem C. Tutum. The ACM ICPC and the UT Programming Contest (UTPC) are an important part of myself, having inspired me with extraordinarily talented teammates: Ethan Arnold, Ryan Rice, Celic Savk, Alex Meed, and Brian Richer.As a summer intern, I have tinkered with someone else’s data systems: Google Spanner’s schema tuning, Google AlloyDB’s database tuning, Google Data Pipeline’s distributed shuffle, Robinhood Spending’s transaction, Facebook Location-Aware Distribution’s large-scale data distribution, and Uber’s analytics infrastructure.
Ongoing Projects
