Baotong Lu
Senior Researcher at Microsoft
Haidian District, Beijing, China
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Top SchoolBaotong Lu is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia with a decade of experience at the intersection of database management systems and machine learning systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and has augmented his research with multiple visiting positions at Simon Fraser University and sustained collaborations within Microsoft. His work emphasizes practical, high-impact system design—echoing his GitHub credo that "simple systems work and complex don’t"—and focuses on making ML and DB systems efficient and robust in real-world settings. Based in Haidian District, Beijing, he blends academic rigor with industrial-scale problem solving, routinely moving ideas from papers to prototypes. Colleagues know him for pragmatic solutions that favor simplicity and measurable performance gains over theoretical elegance alone.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Shandong UniversityThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Github Skills (36)
vldb10
nvm10
hash10
persistent-memory10
oltp9
database9
data-structures9
btree8
gitbook8
hierarchical8
kd-tree7
frontend6
pattern-recognition6
markdown6
rdma6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
baotonglu/ALEX
Jul 2020 - Nov 2020
A library for building an in-memory, Adaptive Learned indEX
Contributions:1067 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
memoryindexlearnedadaptivein-memory
baotonglu/apex
May 2021 - Oct 2022
[VLDB 2022] High Performance Learned Index on Persistent Memory
Contributions:89 commits, 99 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
persistent-memoryvldbdata-structuresdatabaseindex
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