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NEWS: I will be joining the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as a CS PhD student in Fall 2026, advised by Prof. Nishil Talati.

I’m Zhaoyang (Cyrus) Hong, a senior undergrad at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China. I am currently a member of the SUSTech Database Group under the supervision of Prof. Bo Tang. In addition, I was a research intern at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the supervision of Prof. Lin Ma. I’m grateful to have received guidance from these great professors.

My research interests include machine learning systems (MLSys) and databases, and I’m excited to explore how these fields will shape the future of our world.

Beyond academics, I love breaking and locking street dances, which keep me energized for all aspects of life. I also enjoy connecting with people and collaborating, so feel free to reach out anytime!

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Yangshen Deng, Shiwen Chen, Zhaoyang Hong, Bo Tang.
    How Does Software Prefetching Work on GPU Query Processing?
    20th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN), affiliated with SIGMOD, Santiago, Chile, June 2024.

  2. Yangshen Deng, Zhengxin You, Long Xiang, Qilong Li, Peiqi Yuan, Zhaoyang Hong, Yitao Zheng, Wanting Li, Runzhong Li, Haotian Liu, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Man Lung Yiu, Huan Li, Qiaomu Shen, Rui Mao, Bo Tang.
    AlayaDB: The Data Foundation for Efficient and Effective Long-Context LLM Inference
    Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD, Industry Track), Berlin, Germany, June 2025.

SELECTED AWARDS

SERVICES

  • Lecturer*, Computing Olympiad Course — X-Camp Academy (2024–2025)
  • Teaching Assistant*, CS203 Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis (Fall 2024)
    *Conducted in English
  • Teaching Assistant, CS109 Introduction to Java Programming (Spring 2024)
  • Student Coach, SUSTech Programming Competition Team (2023)
  • Problem Setter and Organizer, SUSTech Programming Competition (On-Site) (2023)
  • Lecturer, Olympiad in Informatics (OI) Course for The High School Affiliated to Southern University of Science and Technology (HSAS) (Summer 2023)