Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Xiangpeng Hao is a PhD-level research engineer based in Madison, Wisconsin, with a decade of experience building reliable storage systems focused on database storage engines, key-value stores, and larger-than-memory indexes. His work spans academia and industry, including research roles at UW–Madison and Simon Fraser, and internships at Google, Microsoft, and InfluxData where he tackled Bigtable behavior modeling, auto-tuning, and contributions to DataFusion/Arrow/Parquet. Xiangpeng combines systems research with practical engineering, shipping prototypes and performance analyses for production-scale storage and auto-tuning features. He favors Rust for safe, high-performance implementations and has a track record of translating theoretical ideas about larger-than-memory systems into dependable software. Notably, his internships reveal a consistent focus on understanding and optimizing real-world database behavior rather than purely theoretical work.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science at 浙江大学
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
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Xiangpeng Hao - Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison