About

Zechao Chen (Thatcher Chen)

📣 What’s up

Looking for potential collaborations on data+ai systems
Please do not hesitate to drop me an email if you would like collaborations.

🌱 Info

PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
CV: Link
Supervisor: Nan Tang

🔭️ Research interest

• Agent-Powered Database Systems
• Agentic AI
• LLM Inference

📚 Publication

• Serf: Streaming Error-Bounded Floating-Point Compression
  Ruiyuan Li, Zechao Chen, Ruyun Lu, Xiaolong Xu, Guangchao Yang, Chao Chen, Jie Bao, Yu Zheng
  ACM SIGMOD 2025
  Paper, Poster, Repo

🛠️ Projects

• Start-DB: An open-source spatio-temporal data management and mining system.
• CUPID-DB: A spatial-temporal data management system, which support a set of executing engines.
• CUPID-DB Frontend & Backend: Subprojects of CUPID-DB.
• UniBase: A RDBMS written in C/C++, which is used as a teaching example.

💬 Contact

📬 Email: zecc [at] acm.org

⚠️ Please do not contact me via this email address: thatcher [at] cqu.edu.cn, because I am not sure whether it will forward messages to my current email mailbox correctly after my graduation.

🐙🐈 GitHub: ThatcherChen