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Dixin Tang

Assistant Professor

Dixin Tang is an Assistant Professor at the UT Austin Department of Computer Science. Before joining UT Austin, he was a postdoc scholar at UC Berkeley working with Prof. Aditya Parameswaran. He earned his Ph.D. from the CS department of UChicago, advised by Prof. Aaron Elmore. He is passionate about building data systems and conducting interdisciplinary research at the intersections of databases with distributed systems, storage systems, machine learning, and programming languages.

Research

Research Areas:
Research Interests:

Cloud Data Systems, Transaction Processing, Large-Scale Data Analysis

Current Research:

My current research focuses on building novel data systems for modern hardware and applications. I also work on optimizing data-intensive applications through program synthesis and verification.

Select Publications

Pasha: An Efficient and Scalable Database Architecture on a CXL Pod
Yibo Huang, Newton Ni, Vijay Chidambaram, Dixin Tang, Emmett Witchel
CIDR 2025

Flexible Rule-Based Decomposition and Metadata Independence in Modin: A Parallel Dataframe System
Devin Petersohn*, Dixin Tang*, Rehan Durrani, Areg Melik-Adamyan, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Anthony D. Joseph, Aditya G. Parameswaran
VLDB 2022 (*Equal contribution)

Resource-Efficient Shared Query Execution via Exploiting Time Slackness
Dixin Tang, Zechao Shang, William Ma, Aaron J. Elmore, Sanjay Krishnan
SIGMOD 2021

Thrifty Query Execution via Incrementability
Dixin Tang, Zechao Shang, Aaron J. Elmore, Sanjay Krishnan, Michael J. Franklin
SIGMOD 2020

Intermittent Query Processing
Dixin Tang, Zechao Shang, Aaron J. Elmore, Sanjay Krishnan, Michael J. Franklin
VLDB 2019

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Contact Info

Dixin Tang
Assistant Professor
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dixin@utexas.edu
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