Jianguo Wang

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana

Email: csjgwang@purdue.edu
Office: LWSN 1123H
Phone: (765) 496-0726

Biography

Jianguo Wang is currently a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University.

Before that, he worked at Zilliz on Milvus, a purpose-built vector database system for data science. He also worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Amazon Aurora, a cloud-native database system. Besides that, he interned at Microsoft Research, Oracle, and Samsung.

He obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego.

Research Interests

Generally, he is interested in new database systems for non-traditional architecture and non-traditional data.

Disaggregated Databases
- Memory & Storage Disaggregation
- Distributed Shared-Memory & Shared-Storage Databases
Vector Databases
- Scalable and Cost-Efficient Vector Databases for ML/AI and Data Science
Multi-Model Databases
- Unifying the Management of Relational Data, Vector Data, Spatial Data, Graph Data, JSON Data, Time Series Data...

Working Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University 01/2021 - Present

Milvus Vector Database Team, Zilliz, Remote 07/2020 - 12/2020
- Project: Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Database System

Aurora Cloud Database Team, Amazon AWS, Palo Alto, CA 03/2019 - 07/2020
- Project: Write Forwarding in Amazon Aurora Globally-Distributed Database
- U.S. Patent Filed as Co-Inventor

Recent Publications

Ruihong Wang, Jianguo Wang, Stratos Idreos, M. Tamer Özsu, Walid G. Aref.
The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation.
Proceedings of Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB), pages 15-22, 2023.

Jianguo Wang, Qizhen Zhang.
Disaggregated Database Systems.
Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Tutorial Track, pages 37-44, 2023.