Scholar
Kexin Rong
Google Scholar ID: C8LDYK0AAAAJ
School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
360
H-index
10
i10-index
11
Publications
20
Co-authors
7
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- [June 2025] Student Peng Li won the SIGMOD 2025 Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
- [June 2024] Received SIGMOD 2024 Distinguished PC Award
- [Apr 2024] Awarded Amazon Research Award for optimizing layout designs in data analytics systems
- [Apr 2024] Received NSF award to reimagine video retrieval with hand-drawn sketches
- [Oct 2023] Received NSF award to build a person-focused open knowledge graph
- [Oct 2023] Student Hantian Zhang won the Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Publication Award
- [Aug 2023] Student Peng Li won Best Research Paper Award at VLDB'23
- [Aug 2023] Recognized as Distinguished Reviewer for PVLDB Vol.16
- [Jun 2022] Honorable Mention for SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
- [Aug 2022] Awarded Catherine M. and James E. Allchin Early Career Professorship
- Published papers at top venues including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SoCC
- Work adopted by industry (e.g., Datadog, TimescaleDB)
Background
- Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech
- Research focuses on systems and algorithms to improve computational and human efficiency in large-scale data analytics
- Member of the Georgia Tech database group
- Affiliated researcher at VMware Research Group
- Broadly interested in democratizing data science by building systems and tools that make data analysis more efficient and accessible to non-experts
