Alvin Cheung

Room 32-G930 Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) 32 Vassar St. Cambridge, MA 02139

I am a graduate student in the MIT database group and the computer-aided programming group, working with Professors Sam Madden and Armando Solar-Lezama. I am currently building tools that make use of programming language techniques to improve application performance (currently working on the StatusQuo project). I was previously a student in Professor Mark Horowitz's VLSI research group at Stanford.

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

Papers

• Speeding up Database Applications with Pyxis (demo)
  Alvin Cheung, Owen Arden, Samuel Madden, Andrew C. Myers
  SIGMOD 2013
• Optimizing Database-Backed Applications with Query Synthesis
  Alvin Cheung, Samuel Madden, Armando Solar-Lezama
  PLDI 2013
• StatusQuo: Making Familiar Abstractions Perform Using Program Analysis
  Alvin Cheung, Owen Arden, Samuel Madden, Armando Solar-Lezama, Andrew C. Myers
  CIDR 2013, best paper award
• Using Program Synthesis for Social Recommendations
  Alvin Cheung, Armando Solar-Lezama, Samuel Madden
  CIKM 2012
• Undefined Behavior: What Happened to My Code?
  Xi Wang, Haogang Chen, Alvin Cheung, Zhihao Jia, Nickolai Zeldovich, M. Frans Kaashoek
  APSys 2012
• Automatic Partitioning of Database Applications
  Alvin Cheung, Owen Arden, Samuel Madden, Andrew C. Myers
  VLDB 2012
• 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.
  FSE 2011
• Performance Profiling with EndoScope, an Acquisitional Software Monitoring Framework.
  Alvin Cheung, Samuel Madden.
  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.