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Zhichao Cao

Google Scholar ID: VI4vH9UAAAAJ

Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

DatabaseKey-value storedata infrastructureStorage systemscloud computing

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2026

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Academic Achievements

Recipient of NSF CAREER Award (2025), ACM HPDC'25 Best Student Paper Award, ACM HotStorage'24 Best Paper Award, and VLDB 2024 Distinguished Reviewer Award; served as a Program Committee member for several top conferences such as USENIX FAST, USENIX ATC, ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, IEEE ICDE, etc.

Research Experience

Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University; leads the Intelligent Data Infrastructure Lab; worked as a Research Scientist at Facebook (Meta) RocksDB Team, contributing to storage and database research.

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities, 2020; Advisor: Prof. David H.C. Du; M.S., Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities, 2019; B.S., Automation, Tsinghua University, China, 2013.

Background

Research interests include data infrastructure, AI/ML for system optimizations, database systems, storage systems, next-generation data infrastructure, and new memory and storage technologies. Focuses on the development of query engines for large-scale scientific computing in HPC.

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