HUANG, Kaisong
黄铠松

I am a PhD candidate advised by Prof. Tianzheng Wang at Data-Intensive Systems Lab. My research interests are mainly focused on database engines, transaction processing, storage management, and disaggregated systems.

🏅ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award, 2025
🏅ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, 2023
🏅SFU Graduate Fellowship, 2020 - 2024
🏅SFU Computing Science Travel Award, 2022

🎓PhD, Computer Science, Simon Fraser University, Sep 2020 - Present.
🎓MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Sep 2018 - Aug 2020.
🎓BEng, Software Engineering, Nanjing University, Sep 2014 - Jun 2018.

Reviewer

• CIKM, Program Committee, 2023 - 2025
• VLDBJ, Review Board, 2025 - 2026
• Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA)
• IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)

Other

• VLDB Volunteer, 2023
• SIGMOD Availability Committee, 2022

1. Low-Latency Transaction Scheduling via Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt? (A.K.A. PreemptDB)
   Kaisong Huang, Jiatang Zhou, Zhuoyue Zhao, Dong Xie, Tianzheng Wang
   🏅ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award
   SIGMOD ’25 Berlin | Paper (preprint) | Code
   


2. The Art of Latency Hiding in Modern Database Engines. (A.K.A. MosaicDB)
   Kaisong Huang, Tianzheng Wang, Qingqing Zhou, Qingzhong Meng
   VLDB ’24 Guangzhou | Paper | Code
   


3. DEX: Scalable Range Indexing on Disaggregated Memory.
   Baotong Lu, Kaisong Huang, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Tianzheng Wang, Eric Lo
   VLDB ’24 Guangzhou | Paper | arXiv | Code
   


4. Indexing on Non-Volatile Memory: Techniques, Lessons Learned and Outlook.
   Kaisong Huang, Tianzheng Wang
   Springer Book


5. Efficiently Making Cross-Engine Transactions Consistent.
   Jianqiu Zhang, Kaisong Huang, Tianzheng Wang, King Lv
   SIGMOD Record ’23 | Invited Paper | Technical Perspective by Prof. Carsten Binnig


6. The Past, Present and Future of Indexing on Persistent Memory.
   Kaisong Huang, Yuliang He, Tianzheng Wang
   VLDB ’22 Sydney | Tutorial | Slides


7. Evaluating Persistent Memory Range Indexes: Part Two.
   Yuliang He, Duo Lu, Kaisong Huang, Tianzheng Wang
   VLDB ’22 Sydney | Paper | arXiv | Slides | Poster | Code


8. Skeena: Efficient and Consistent Cross-Engine Transactions.
   Jianqiu Zhang, Kaisong Huang, Tianzheng Wang, King Lv
   🏅ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
   SIGMOD ’22 Philadelphia | Paper | Slides | Video | Poster | Code


9. Rethinking the Performance/Cost of Persistent Memory and SSDs.
   Kaisong Huang, Darien Imai, Tianzheng Wang, Dong Xie
   NVMW ’22 San Diego | Abstract | Slides


10. SSDs Striking Back: The Storage Jungle and Its Implications on Persistent Indexes.
    Kaisong Huang, Darien Imai, Tianzheng Wang, Dong Xie
    CIDR ’22 Santa Cruz | Paper | Slides | Video | Code