Biography：
I am a full professor at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT, CAS). My research interests are in data management systems, big data processing, and computer architectures. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and my B.E. and M.E. from Tsinghua University. I worked as a researcher, senior researcher, and research manager at Intel Labs, Carnegie Mellon University, and HP Labs before joining ICT CAS. I have won a best paper award at ICDE'04, a runner-up best paper award at SIGMOD'01, and a 2008 Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences award. I have served as Associate Editor/PC Area Chair/Senior PC for PVLDB'26, ICDE'26, PVLDB'25, PVLDB'17, EDBT'24, ICDE'18, ICDCS'16, and CIKM'14, Co-Chair for DAMON'12, HardBD & Active workshops, and PC member for various conferences including SIGMOD, VLDB, ASPLOS, EUROSYS, ICDE, EDBT, and CIDR. I teach the undergrad database system course and the graduate big data system course in University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) .
Research area：
Database management systems; Big data processing; Computer architecture.
Selected papers：
Yifan Yang, Shimin Chen. "LITS: An Optimized Learned Index for Strings". PVLDB 17(11): 3415-3427, 2024 (PVLDB'24).
Yiyuan Chen, Shimin Chen. "Cabin: a Compressed Adaptive Binned Scan Index". Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data 2(1): 57:1-57:26 (SIGMOD'24).
Zehai Yang, Shimin Chen. "MOST: Model-Based Compression with Outlier Storage for Time Series Data". Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data 1(4): 250:1-250:29 (SIGMOD'24).
Zhuoxuan Liu, Shimin Chen. "Pea Hash: A Performant Extendible Adaptive Hashing Index". Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data 1(1): 108:1-108:25 (SIGMOD'23).
Jiacheng Wu, Yong Zhang, Shimin Chen, Yu Chen, Jin Wang, Chunxiao Xing. "Updatable Learned Index with Precise Positions" . PVLDB 14(8): 1276-1288, 2021 (PVLDB'21).
Gang Liu, Leying Chen, Shimin Chen. "Zen: a High-Throughput Log-Free OLTP Engine for Non-Volatile Main Memory". PVLDB, 14(5): 835 - 848, 2021 (PVLDB'21).
Jihang Liu, Shimin Chen, Lujun Wang. "LB+-Trees: Optimizing Persistent Index Performance on 3DXPoint Memory". PVLDB 13(7): 1078-1090 (PVLDB'20).
Shimin Chen, Michael Kozuch, Theodoros Strigkos, Babak Falsafi, Phillip B. Gibbons, Todd C. Mowry, Vijaya Ramachandran, Olatunji Ruwase, Michael Ryan, Evangelos Vlachos. "Flexible Hardware Acceleration for Instruction-Grain Program Monitoring". In proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'08) (Top Picks).
Shimin Chen, Anastasia Ailamaki, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Todd C. Mowry. "Improving Hash Join Performance through Prefetching". In proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering, 2004 (ICDE'04) (Best Paper Award).
Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Todd C. Mowry. "Improving Index Performance through Prefetching". In proceedings of the 2001 SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'01) (Runner-up for Best Paper Award)
