Ziyi Yan

Ziyi Yan

Ziyi Yan is a 4th-year PhD candidate at School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University co-advised by Anders Miltner and Keval Vora. He received a B.Eng. in Electronics and Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2018.

Publications

Names of myself are highlighted with underline

Tabular: Efficiently Building Efficient Indexes. [preprint] [code]
Ziyi Yan, Mohamed Farouk Drira, Tianxun Hu, Tianzheng Wang.
VLDB 2025
OptiQL: Robust Optimistic Locking for Memory-Optimized Indexes. [code]
Ge Shi, Ziyi Yan, Tianzheng Wang.
SIGMOD 2024

Talks & Posters

Talk on "Tabular: Efficiently Building Efficient Indexes" at CMPT 984: Special Topics in Database Systems, Simon Fraser University, Spring 2025.
Poster on "Tabular: Efficiently Building Efficient Indexes" at NWDS 2025.
Poster on "OptiQL: Robust Optimistic Locking for Memory-Optimized Indexes" at NWDS 2024.

Service

Seminar organization at Computer Systems Research Group at Simon Fraser University (Summer 2024).
Student volunteer at VLDB 2023.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, CMPT 454: Database Systems II (Bachelor), Simon Fraser University, Fall 2025.
Teaching Assistant, CMPT 454: Database Systems II (Bachelor), Simon Fraser University, Spring 2025.
Teaching Assistant, CMPT 454: Database Systems II (Bachelor), Simon Fraser University, Summer 2024.
Teaching Assistant, CMPT 740: Database Systems (Master), Simon Fraser University, Fall 2022.