I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison database group advised by Prof. Paris Koutris.

I am seeking research/engineering positions to start in 2023/24.
My research interest lies in the intersection of theoretical computer science and databases, with a theme of solving data management problems with principled guarantees. Currently, I am working on efficient algorithms to compute the consistent query answers on inconsistent databases that may violate preset integrity constraints and its complexity classification.

Aside from research, I have also worked at Meta, Microsoft (Gray Systems Lab), and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Before that, I obtained my B.Sc. in computer science from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in 2018. I was fortunate to work with Prof. Yixin Cao on graph theory and parameterized algorithms. I was an exchange student at the University of Waterloo in Winter 2017.

Publications (* - alphabetical authorship following the convention of theoretical computer science)

• LinCQA: Faster Consistent Query Answering with Linear Time Guarantees. [arXiv][publisher][poster][slides]
  * with Zhiwei Fan, Paraschos Koutris and Jef Wijsen.
  SIGMOD'23 @ Seattle, WA

• SparkCruise: Workload Optimization in Managed Spark Clusters at Microsoft. [pdf]
  Abhishek Roy, Alekh Jindal, Priyanka Gomatam, Xiating Ouyang, Ashit Gosalia, Nishkam Ravi, Swinky Mann and Prakhar Jain.
  VLDB'21 (industrial track) @ Copenhagen, Denmark

• Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys on Path Queries. [pdf] [publisher] [slides]
  * with Paraschos Koutris and Jef Wijsen.
  PODS'21 @ Xi'an, China

• Unit interval vertex deletion: Fewer vertices are relevant. [publisher]
  Yuping Ke, Yixin Cao, Xiating Ouyang, Wenjun Li and Jianxin Wang.
  Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), 95:109–121 (2018).

Services

• Organizer: UW-Madison DB Seminars

• Volunteer: VLDB'21, SIGMOD'23

• Student organizer: COCOON'17, SMARTCOMP'17

• Webmaster: COCOON'17

Teaching

• [TA] CS 577 Introduction to Algorithms: Spring 2019

• [TA] CS 240 Introduction to Discrete Mathematics: Fall 2018