Zikai Wang (王子恺)

wang.zikai1 AT northeastern.edu

I’m a PhD student in Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, advised by Prof. Cheng Tan. Before Northeastern, I obtained my M.E and B.E in Renmin University of China (RUC) under the supervision of Prof. Yunpeng Chai. My research interest lies in building verifiable intelligent systems.

Publications


2021

Education


Experience


  • Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia
  • Research Intern, TU Darmstadt
    • Mar. 2023 - May. 2024, Data Management Group, Remote
    • With Prof. Carsten Binnig and Dr. Tobias Ziegler
    • We conducted an extensive performance evaluation of common concurrency control methods within the context of the disaggregated shared-caching system with the support of RDMA, ScaleStore, and analyzed its suitable transaction model.
    • Constructing a scalable transactional database system above ScaleStore.
  • Research Intern, Tencent
    • Sep. 2020 - Sep. 2022, TDSQL3, Beijing
    • Provided heterogeneous multiple replicas supports for TDSQL3, a commercial distributed HTAP database developed by Tencent.
    • Proposed a workload-aware storage model based on the LSM-Tree storage engine of TDSQL3. We decoupled the tuple-level key-value pairs and reorganized the field-level key-value pairs based on the cost model of key-value engines and our evaluation of storage models.
  • VLDB Summer School 2021
    • Jan. 2022, Haikou, Hainan
    • Awards: Outstanding Student
    • Participated in lectures on distributed transactions, concurrency control, transactions on new hardware, etc.
    • Finished the distributed database labs based on TinySQL and TinyKV.
  • Teaching Assistant, Renmin Univ. of China

Honors and Awards


  • First Class Scholarship (2021 - 2022)
  • Outstanding Student in VLDB Summber School (Jan. 2022)
  • Outstanding Graduate (Renmin Univ. of China, Jun. 2021)