Huanchen Zhang
Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolHuanchen Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the IIIS (Yao Class) at Tsinghua University with 12 years of experience bridging database research and systems practice. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon under David G. Andersen and focuses on indexing/filtering data structures, data compression, and cloud databases. His trajectory includes a postdoc at Snowflake and industry research internships at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, giving him practical insight into production-scale data platforms. Huanchen’s work blends theoretical rigor with systems-building, often targeting performance and storage-efficiency tradeoffs that matter in cloud deployments. Based in Beijing, he brings an academic mindset to real-world database challenges and a track record of translating ideas into implementable systems. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who balances deep algorithmic thinking with attention to engineering detail.
12 years of coding experience
University of Wisconsin-MadisonPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (19)
filter10
ranking9
science8
persistent8
leveldb7
computer-science7
react7
database6
embeddable6
storage6
beta-release5
rocksdb5
key-value5
key-value-store5
transactional4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
efficient/HOPE
Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:64 commits, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
efficient/rocksdb
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Contributions:27 commits, 21 pushes in 10 months
rocksdbleveldbfast-storagelsm-treedatabase
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