Xilin Tang is a Phd student at Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, primarily based at the NYC campus of Cornell Tech, working with Prof. Alex Conway. He has also closely collaborated with Profs. Huanchen Zhang, Feng Zhang, and Shuhao Zhang.
His research focuses on quantitatively and formally understanding system behaviors and leveraging this understanding to enhance practical efficiency with theoretical assurance.
Succinct and Fast Tiny Pointer Hash Tables
Xilin Tang, Yuqi Mai, William Kuszmaul, Alex Conway
[VLDB’26] [Code]
Enabling Adaptive Sampling for Intra-Window Join: Simultaneously Optimizing Quantity and Quality
Xilin Tang, Feng Zhang, Shuhao Zhang, Yani Liu, Bingsheng He, Xiaoyong Du
[SIGMOD’25] [Code]
Taming the Big Data Monster: Managing Petabytes of Data with Multi-Model Databases
Yang Chen, Feng Zhang, Yinhao Hong, Yunpeng Chai, Wei Lu, Hong Chen, Xiaoyong Du, Peipei Wang, Le Mi, Jintao Li, Xilin Tang, Yanliang Zhou, Wei Zhou, Peng Zhang, Fengyi Chen, Pengfei Li, Yu Li
[SBACPAD’22]
| Artifact Evaluation Committee | MLSys 2026 |
| Availability and Reproducibility Committee | SIGMOD 2025 |
Cornell University
TA CS 5112: Algorithms and Data Structures for Applications (Fall 2025)
TA CS 5112: Algorithms and Data Structures for Applications (Fall 2024)
Renmin University of China
TA Princeples of Compiler Design (Spring 2023)
TA Introduction to Data Science (Spring 2022)
TA Foundations of Computer Systems (Fall 2021)
Sep. 2019 - Jun. 2023 B.Eng. in Computer Science, Renmin University of China
Aug. 2023 - May. 2024 Assistant Researcher, Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute
Jun. 2022 - Jun. 2023 OLAP Database Research and Development Intern, Bytedance