About

I’m Xiaogang Shi, currently the head of the computing team at Kwaishou. Before that, I used to work as the head of the computing team at Tencent.

I obtained PhD from Peking University 2016, advised by Prof. Bin Cui. I worked with Prof. Beng Chin OOI as a visiting scholar at NUS in 2013.

I have served in the technical program committee of various international conferences, including KDD, SDM, DASFAA and BigData. I am also a committer of the Apache Flink project.

Research Interests

Distributed and Parallel Computing, Databases, Query Optimization, Access Methods, Graph Processing, Stream Processing

Publications

• Xiaogang Shi, Bin Cui, Gill Dobbie, Beng Chin Ooi. A unified ad-hoc data processing system. In ACM Transaction on Database Systems (TODS), vol. 42, issue 1, no. 6.
• Xiaogang Shi, Bin Cui, Yingxia Shao, Yunhai Tong. Tornado: A system for real-time iterative Analysis over evolving data. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2016), pp. 417-430.
• Xiaogang Shi, Bin Cui, Gill Dobbie, Beng Chin Ooi. Towards unified ad-hoc data processing. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2014), pp. 1263-1274.
• Xiaogang Shi, Yanfei Lv, Yingxia Shao, Bin Cui. bCATE: A balanced contention-aware transaction execution model for highly concurrent OLTP systems. In the 14th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2013), pp. 769-780.