Published multiple papers, including those accepted in ACM SIGMOD 2026, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025, and VLDB 2025. Recipient of several honors and funding awards from organizations such as NSF and Google. Received the 2025 Google Systems and ML Junior Faculty Award.
Research Experience
Previously a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Data Systems Group and an NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellow. Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, leading the Next-generation Data-Intensive Systems Group (NexDIG).
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in January 2020. His dissertation received the University-wide Best Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention.
Background
Research interests: Building the next generation of data management, processing, and analysis systems using machine learning and quantum computing. Professional field: Computer Science. Profile: Currently an Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California and by courtesy, in the Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute. Leads the Next-generation Data-Intensive Systems Group (NexDIG).