I am interested broadly in data management and computer systems and networking, particularly in problems that arise and mechanisms that are effective at massive scales. My research has been bridging data processing systems and computer networks to address emerging challenges in large-scale data processing. Some of the projects I work on:

MGI: A Communication Framework for Data Processing in Massive GPU Infrastructures
Di Wu, Hongshi Tan, Hanzhang Yang, Bingsheng He, Qizhen Zhang
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2026, to appear

dpKernels: Harvesting DPU Compute Resources for Data-path Efficiency in Cloud Data Processing
Jiasheng Hu, Kaiwen Zheng, Anna Li, Sidharth Sankhe, Philip A. Bernstein, Qizhen Zhang
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2026, to appear

GFedCL: Graph-Based Federated Continual Learning with Spatial and Temporal Awareness
Qingyang Yu, Yang Hua, Qizhen Zhang, Hao Wang
International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2026, to appear

PD3: Prefetching Data with DPUs for Disaggregated Memory
Sidharth Sankhe, Felix Zhang, Umayrah Chonee, Sherman Lim, Jiasheng Hu, Jialin Li, Qizhen Zhang
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2026

RidgeWalker: Perfectly Pipelined Graph Random Walks on FPGAs
Hongshi Tan, Yao Chen, Xinyu Chen, Qizhen Zhang, Cheng Chen, Weng-Fai Wong, Bingsheng He
IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, HPCA 2026

Full List

Program Committee
SIGMOD 2027, VLDB 2027, CIDR 2027
SIGMOD 2026, VLDB 2026, SIGCOMM 2026, NSDI 2026, EuroSys 2026, HardBD&Active@ICDE 2026 (Chair)
SIGMOD 2025, VLDB 2025, ICDE 2025, WWW 2025, APSys 2025
SIGMOD 2024, EuroSys 2024, EDBT 2024
SoCC 2023, CIKM 2023, ICDE 2023
SoCC 2022, CIKM 2022

Journal Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Database Systems Review Board 2025 - 2026
ACM Transactions on Database Systems 2024
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2023
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 2023
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2022
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2022
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 2022

Data Processing with DPUs
Seminar talk, Peking University, Beijing, China, July 2025
Plenary talk, International Congress of Basic Science, Beijing, China, July 2025
Seminar talk, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, February 2025

Offloading the Tax of Disaggregation
Seminar talk, National University of Singapore, Singapore, March 2024

Memory-disaggregated Database Systems
SIGMOD 2023, Seattle, Washington, United States, June 2023

Templating Shuffles
Northwest Database Society (NWDS) Annual Meeting 2023, Redmond, Washington, United States, May 2023

Redy: Remote Dynamic Memory Cache
VLDB 2022, Virtual, September 2022

Optimizing Data-intensive Systems in Disaggregated Data Centers with TELEPORT
SIGMOD 2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, June 2022

Hyperscale Data Processing with Network-centric Designs
Job talk, February - April 2022
CMU, HKUST, NUS, Ohio State U., Simon Fraser U., UC Irvine, UIUC, U. Minnesota Twin Cities, U. Toronto, U. Virginia, U. Waterloo

CompuCache: Remote Computable Caching using Spot VMs
CIDR 2022, Virtual, January 2022

MimicNet: Fast Performance Estimates for Data Center Networks with Machine Learning
SIGCOMM 2021, Virtual, August 2021

Understanding the Effect of Data Center Resource Disaggregation on Production DBMSs
VLDB 2020, Virtual, September 2020
Microsoft Research, Virtual, August 2020

Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers
CIDR 2020, Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 2020

Optimizing Declarative Graph Queries at Large Scale
Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States, August 2019
SIGMOD 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2019

Predicting Startup Crowdfunding Success through Longitudinal Social Engagement Analysis
CIKM 2017, Singapore, November 2017

Architectural Implications on the Performance and Cost of Graph Analytics Systems
SoCC 2017, Santa Clara, California, United States, September 2017