Ling Zhang

Ling Zhang

Ph.D. student

University of Wisconsin–Madison

About Me

Ling Zhang (张岭) is a fourth-year Ph.D student in Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am part of the Database Group and I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jignesh M. Patel and Karu Sankaralingam highlight_name: true. I actively collaborating with Gray Systems Lab - Microsoft Research. My research focuses on log processing and management, structured text search, and database query processing in general.

I received Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University where am a part of the CMU DB Group working with Prof. Andy Pavlo. I did my undergraduate at Purdue University, advised by Prof. Yung-Hsiang Lu and Prof. George K. Thiruvathukal.

Interests
  • Log Processing & Management
  • Structured Text Search
  • Database Query Processing
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, in progress

    University of Wisconsin–Madison

  • M.S. in Computer Science, 2020

    Carnegie Mellon University

  • B.S. in Computer Science, 2019

    Purdue University

Publications

(2023). Exploiting Structure in Regular Expression Queries. In SIGMOD 2023.

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(2020). Everything is a Transaction: Unifying Logical Concurrency Control and Physical Data Structure Maintenance in Database Management Systems. In CIDR 2021.

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