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HUANG, Kaisong
黄铠松

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary

Email: kaisong.huang@ucalgary.ca
[Google Scholar] [GitHub]


Openings

I plan to recruit one or two thesis-based Master's students for Fall 2026 admission. If your reseach passion aligns with mine, please send me an email with your CV (including GitHub and Google Scholar, if applicable), transcripts, and research statement (no more than 2 pages). Please make sure the subject line starts with [UofC Application].

About Me

My research interests are mainly focused on database engines, transaction processing, data storage management, resource disaggregation, and modern hardware for database systems. Recently, I am also interested in AI/LLM-driven database system research.


Awards

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

Education

🎓PhD, Computer Science, Simon Fraser University, Sep 2020 - May 2025.
🎓MMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Sep 2018 - Aug 2020.
🎓BEng, Software Engineering, Nanjing University, Sep 2014 - Jun 2018.

Service

Reviewer

  • SIGMOD 2026, PC member
  • ICDE 2026, PC member
  • CIKM 2023 - 2025, PC member
  • VLDBJ 2025 - 2026, review board
  • SIGMOD 2022, Availability Committee member
  • 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)

Publications