I’m Zichen Zhu (朱子晨 in Chinese). I am currently in my last year of my PhD in MiDAS of Boston University, advised by Prof. Manos Athanassoulis.

Prior to joining Boston University, I studied as an MPhil student in Database Group, department of Computer Science in the University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Reynold Cheng. Before that, I got my bachelor degree in software engineering of Tsinghua University.

My research interest focuses on the area of data management and data systems.

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Recent News

Oct, 2024 - Our work "Benchmarking, Analyzing, and Optimizing WA of Partial Compaction in RocksDB" got accepted in EDBT 2025!
May, 2024 - ACM SIGMOD 2024 Travel Award!
April, 2024 - Really honored to receive 2023/2024 BU CS Department Research Excellence Award!
April, 2024 - Our work "KVBench: A Key-Value Benchmarking Suite" got accepted in DBTest 2024!
Jan, 2024 - Lecturer for CS561 in Spring 2024!
Aug, 2023 - Our work "NOCAP: Near-Optimal Correlation-Aware Partitioning Join" got accepted in SIGMOD 2024!
June, 2023 - Our work "SHaMBa: Reducing Bloom Filter Overhead in LSM Trees" got accepted in PhD Workshop of VLDB 2023!
March, 2023 - Our work "Enabling Timely and Persistent Deletion in LSM-Engines" got accepted in TODS.
March, 2023 - Our work "Acheron: Persisting Tombstones in LSM Engines" got accepted in Demo Track of SIGMOD 2023.
Jan, 2023 - Teaching fellow for CS561.
June, 2022 - Our work "Multi-Task Processing in Vertex-Centric Graph Systems: Evaluations and Insights" got accepted in EDBT 2023!
Apr, 2022 - ACM SIGMOD 2022 Travel Award!
May, 2022 - Really excited to share that I have joined Meta as a Software Engineer Intern for this Summer.
Mar, 2022 - Our invited article on "Building Deletion-Compliant Data Systems" has been accepted in IEEE DEBull.
Mar, 2022 - Our work on "Compactionary: A Dictionary for LSM Compactions" has been accepted in Demo Track of SIGMOD 2022.

Internship & Volunteer

1. PC Member in CIKM2024

2. Software Engineer Intern at Google Core, 2024

3. Software Engineer Intern at Google Cloud, 2023

4. ACM SIGMOD Availability Committee 2021,2022,2023

5. PhD Internship at Meta, 2022

6. Online Volunteer in VLDB 2020

7. PC member in ICTAI 2020

8. Volunteer in BDAI Workshop, HKU, 2019

9. External reviewer of ICDE2024, CIKM2023, DASFAA2023, DASFAA2022, WISE2020, ER2019, CIKM2018, DASFAA2018

10. System Engineer Internship, Users and Relation Group, Weibo Corporation, 2017

Lecturer

2024 - CS561: Data Systems Architectures, BU

Teaching Assistant

2022, 2023 - CS561: Data Systems Architectures, BU

202 - CS460: Introduction to Database Systems, BU

2020, 2021, 2023 - CS660: Graduate Introduction to Databases, BU

2020 - CS237: Probability of Computing, BU

2019 - CS105: Introduction to Databases and Data Mining, BU

2018, 2019 - CCST9047: The Age of Big Data, HKU

Contact

Email
zczhu [at] bu.edu