Chunwei Liu
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Chunwei Liu is an Assistant Professor of the Computer Science Department. His research interests span compound AI systems, database systems, cloud/edge computing, and database benchmarking. He focuses on optimizing data systems for both conventional data analytics and emerging AI-powered pipelines. Chunwei develops privacy-preserving workload generation techniques for evaluating cloud database systems, collaborating with major cloud vendors such as Microso… ↓More
Joined department: Fall 2025
Research Areas
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing
- Databases and Data Mining
Chunwei Liu is an Assistant Professor of the Computer Science Department. His research interests span compound AI systems, database systems, cloud/edge computing, and database benchmarking. He focuses on optimizing data systems for both conventional data analytics and emerging AI-powered pipelines. Chunwei develops privacy-preserving workload generation techniques for evaluating cloud database systems, collaborating with major cloud vendors such as Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, Meta, and Google. Additionally, he explores novel data compression methods for data systems and implements adaptive compression selection in both conventional and resource-constrained databases and machine learning systems. Furthermore, he is engaged in high-dimensional data analysis, with a particular emphasis on time series applications. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in DSG at MIT CSAIL. He got his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he worked in the ChiData group.
Selected Publications
Optimizing AI Powered Data Pipelines: Palimpzest, PalimpChat [Project Site]
Benchmarking Data Systems: DeepDive, DataFormats, EBI, PBench
Scheduling and Analysis:Debunk, VAQ, IconqSched, Trail