Alvin Cheung

I am a graduate student in the MIT database group, working with Professor Sam Madden. My current research interests include performance monitoring, stream data processing, and building tools to find bugs in distributed systems. I was previously a student in Professor Mark Horowitz's VLSI research group at Stanford.

My interests are program analysis, improving database application performance, and building big systems in general.

Papers

• Automatically Generating Interesting Events with LifeJoin (demo)
  Alvin Cheung, Arvind Thiagarajan, Samuel Madden.
  SenSys 2011
• Partial Replay of Long-Running Applications.
  Alvin Cheung, Armando Solar-Lezama, Samuel Madden.
  (34/203 = 17% acceptance rate)
  FSE 2011
• Performance Profiling with EndoScope, an Acquisitional Software Monitoring Framework.
  Alvin Cheung, Samuel Madden.
  (16.5% acceptance rate)
  VLDB 2008
• Theseos: A Query Engine for Traceability across Sovereign, Distributed RFID Database. (demo)
  Alvin Cheung, Karin Kailing, Stefan Schönauer.
  ICDE 2007
• Ïnfïnïty: a generic platform for application development and information sharing on mobile devices.
  Alvin Cheung, Tyrone Grandison, Christopher M. Johnson, Stefan Schönauer.
  MobiDE 2007
• Towards Traceability across Sovereign, Distributed RFID Databases
  Rakesh Agrawal, Alvin Cheung, Karin Kailing, Stefan Schönauer.
  IDEAS 2006
• A New Method for Design of Robust Digital Circuits
  Dinesh Patil, Sunghee Yun, Seung-Jean Kim, Alvin Cheung, Stephen Boyd, Mark Horowitz.
  ISQED 2005 (best paper award)

Recent Awards

• NSF Graduate Fellowship recipient
• NDSEG Fellowship recipient
• Zipf Fellow, Council on Library and Information Resources

Misc Projects

• Homeprice, a website that provides free property valuation in Hong Kong.