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Lixiao Cui (崔立骁)

Ph.D. Student
Nankai University
cuilx@nbjl.nankai.edu.cn

        

Bio

Lixiao Cui is a Ph.D. student of Nankai-Baidu Joint Lab, College of Computer Science, Nankai University, under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoguang Liu. He received the B.E. degree from Nankai University in 2019. His research interests mainly focus on storage systems, especially leveraging new hardware / algorithms to enhance the performance and cost-effectiveness of storage systems.

I expect to join the job market in 2025. If you have any job opportunities, please feel free to contact me.

Education

Selected Publications

[ Learned Index ]

PIMLex: A High-Performance Learned Index with Processing-in-Memory [pdf]
Lixiao Cui, Kedi Yang, Yusen Li, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu
23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’25), 2025. (CCF-A)

When Learned Indexes Meet Persistent Memory: The Analysis and the Optimization [pdf]
Lixiao Cui, Yijing Luo, Yusen Li, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2024. (CCF-A)

DiffLex: A High-Performance, Memory-Efficient and NUMA-Aware Learned Index using Differentiated Management [pdf]
Lixiao Cui, Kedi Yang, Yusen Li, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu
International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2023. (CCF-B)

[ Key-Value Systems ]

SwapKV: A Hotness Aware In-memory Key-Value Store for Hybrid Memory Systems [pdf]
Lixiao Cui, Kewen He, Yusen Li, Peng Li, Jiachen Zhang, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2021, (CCF-A)

H2KV: A Hotspot Awareness based Hybrid Fault-tolerant In-memory Key-Value Store [pdf]
Lixiao Cui, Yingjie Geng, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu
International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST), 2024, (CCF-B)

A GPU-accelerated Compaction Strategy for LSM-based Key-Value Store System [pdf]
Hao Zhou, Yuanhui Chen, Lixiao Cui, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu
International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST), 2024, (CCF-B)

[ Vector Search ]

ALGAS: A Low-latency GPU-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search System [pdf]
Yuanhui Chen, Lixiao Cui, Zebin Yao, Hao Zhou, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu
39th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium(IPDPS), 2025, (CCF-B)

[ Storage Virtualization ]

Toward Virtual Machine Image Management for Persistent Memory [pdf]
Jiachen Zhang, Lixiao Cui, Peng Li, Xiaoguang Liu, Gang Wang
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2021. (CCF-A)

Internship

  • [2024.5 - 2024.8] Alibaba Group, Beijing, China.
  • [2019.5 - 2019.10] ByteDance, Beijing, China.

Honors & Awards

  • National Scholarship (top 2%), Ministry of Education of China
  • 1st-Class Gongneng Scholarship (top 10%), Nankai University.
  • Excellent Merit Student (top 10%), Nankai University.
  • Excellent Undergraduate Thesis, Nankai University.

Hobby

An amateur of geography and history.