Graduate Student
PhD
- Yuhong LIANG, Aug. 2018-Jul. 2022
🎓 Thesis: "On Managing Emerging Storage Devices from Different Layers: Firmware, Middleware, and Application"
💼 First placement afterwards: Senior Engineer at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
💼 Current placement (from 2025): Assistant Professor at School of Computing and Information Technology, Great Bay University
- Tsun-Yu YANG, Aug. 2019-Dec. 2023 (Hong Kong PhD Fellowship)
🎓 Thesis: "Boosting the Processing Efficiency of Out-of-core Graph Systems via I/O Optimizations"
💼 First placement afterwards: Postdoc at Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
💼 Next placement (from Feburary 2025): Postdoc at Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
- Chao WANG, Aug. 2020-present
- Lok Yin CHOW, Aug. 2020-present
- Junliang HU, Aug. 2021-present
- Changji LI, Aug. 2021-present
- Yingjia WANG, Aug. 2022-present
- Xiangjun PENG, Sep. 2022-present
- Yizou CHEN, Aug. 2023-present
- Zhisheng HU, Sep. 2023-present
- Han ZHAO, Aug. 2024-present
- Fan YANG, Aug. 2024-present
- Dawei GUO, Aug. 2025-present
MPhil
- Yifan HOU, Aug. 2018-Jul. 2020
🎓 Thesis: "Measuring and Improving the Use of Graph Information in Graph Neural Network"
🥇 CUHK Faculty Outstanding MPhil Thesis Award 2020
💼 First placement afterwards: PhD Study at ETH Zürich
- Jie LIU, Aug. 2018-Jul. 2020
🎓 Thesis: "Understanding and Improving Proximity Graph based Maximum Inner Product Search"
💼 First placement afterwards: PhD Study at University of Michigan
- Zheng ZHONG, Aug. 2018-Jul. 2020
🎓 Thesis: "Optimizations for Distributed Data Analytics in Cloud Environment"
💼 First placement afterwards: PhD Study at Purdue University
- Changji LI, Aug. 2019-Aug. 2021
🎓 Thesis: "A Study on Graph Database Storage Design"
💼 First placement afterwards: PhD Study at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Guangliang YAO, Aug. 2019-Jul. 2023
🎓 Thesis: "On Suppressing Tail Latency via Synergizing the Erase Duality of Emerging Bit-Alterable NAND Flash"
💼 First placement afterwards: Project Manager at Department of Circuits Design, Chengdu Siliconsea Technology Co., Ltd.
- Xiangjun PENG, Aug. 2020-Jul. 2022
🎓 Thesis: "Efficient Branch Divergence Handling on Bit-serial SIMD Processing-Using-Memory in DRAM"
💼 First placement afterwards: PhD Study at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Chenhan JIN, Aug. 2020-Jul. 2022
🎓 Thesis: "Fundamental Problems in Finite-sum and Private Convex Optimization"
💼 First placement afterwards: PhD Study at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Xirui NIE, Aug. 2021-Nov. 2023
🎓 Thesis: "About Zoned Namespace: What We Know and What We Don't Know"
💼 First placement afterwards: Software Engineer at Tencent
- Zhirui ZHANG, Aug. 2025-present
Research Assistant
- Shuo-Han CHEN, Apr. 2018-Dec. 2018
💼 First placement afterwards: Postdoc at Purdue University
- Jiaying LIN, Feb. 2019-May 2019
💼 First placement afterwards: Microsoft Research Asia
- Chao WANG, Oct. 2019-May 2020
💼 First placement afterwards: PhD Study at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Junliang HU, Feb. 2021-May 2021
💼 First placement afterwards: PhD Study at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Yi LI, Oct. 2021-Jan. 2022
💼 First placement afterwards: PhD Study at Oklahoma State University
- Yizou CHEN, Feb. 2023-May 2023
💼 First placement afterwards: PhD Study at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Student Helper
- Hsin-En SU, July 2019-Aug. 2019 (Summer Intern)
💼 First placement afterwards: Undergradute Study at National Chiao-Tung University
- Lok Yin CHOW, May 2019-May 2020
💼 First placement afterwards: PhD Study at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Tin Fan CHUNG, May 2019-May 2020
💼 First placement afterwards: Software Engineer at Slash Limited, Hong Kong
