
Fang Wang
Computer Science PhD
I'm on the job market ! I will obtain PhD degree before Nov. 2022
Eudcation
I'm currently a Ph.D. candidate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (POLYU), advised by Prof. Man Lung Yiu Ken and Prof. Zili Shao. I received the bachelor's degree in Engineering from Hangzhou Dianzi University (HDU) in 2017.
Research Interest
My work/research interest is database system. My previous works include AI for DB and modern hardware for DB.
My on-going works include cloud-native and relational database system.
If you could read Chinese, you may subscribe my ZhiHu blog (ID: learnDB).
Publication
"Speeding Up End-to-end Query Execution via Learning-based Progressive Cardinality Estimation". In International Conference on Management of Data SIGMOD, 2023, first author.
"Accelerating Similarity-based Mining Tasks on High-dimensional Data by Processing-in-memory.". In IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE, 2021, first author.
"ReRAM-based processing-in-memory architecture for blockchain platforms." In Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference ASP-DAC, 2019, first author.
"GHive: A demonstration of GPU-accelerated query processing in Apache Hive". In International Conference on Management of Data Demonstration SIGMOD Demo, 2022, co-author.
"GHive: Accelerating analytical query processing in Apache Hive via CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing." In ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing SoCC, 2022, co-author.
"QEVIS: Fine-grained Visual Understanding of Distributed Query Execution". In submission to International Conference on Management of Data SIGMOD Industry, co-author. Demo Video
Project
Cloud-native database.
Learning-based query optimization for database analytics.
Exploiting CPU-GPU co-processing for database analytics.
Exploiting smart memory/storage (non-volatile memory NVM) for accelerating data mining on vector data.
News
16 Aug 2022 Our work LPCE (learning for cardinality estimation) is accepted by SIGMOD 2023.
10 Aug 2022 My ZhiHu (ID: learnDB) blog has over 120 subscribers.
17 June 2022 I passed the oral defense for PhD degree !!!
01 June 2022 I finished the internship at Huawei GuassDB as research intern for Gauss Cloud-native database project.
23 Dec 2020 I gave a talk on Exploiting GPUs For Database Analytical Query at Huawei GaussDB. The video recording (in Chinese) is available at Bilibili.
15 Sep 2020 I joined the database group as a visiting research student at Southern University of Science and Technology, China, and worked with Dr. Bo Tang.
Professional
Activity
Reviewer: AAAI 2022/2021
Reviewer: CIKM 2021
Teaching
Teaching Assistant at COMP1411: Introduction to Computer Systems. Spring 2021
Teaching Assistant at COMP3021: Programming Language Paradigms. Spring 2020
Teaching Assistant at COMP5434: Big Data Computing. Summer 2019
Teaching Assistant at COMP4438: Embedded Software. Spring 2019
Teaching Assistant at COMP2121: E-Business. Fall 2018
Teaching Assistant at COMP3122: Information Systems Development. Spring 2018
Life

I have a sweet Ph.D. friend group. They are the nicest people in the world, who gave me great help on the way of pursuing the degree!
I travel a lot.
Always curious about the world!

