I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Eric Lo, expected to graduate in 2023. My research mainly focuses on transaction processing in distributed databases. In particular, I’m interested in designing efficient and practical protocols including concurrency control, atomic commit, and replication protocols for typical DBs or blockchains.

Publications

• Knock Out 2PC with Practicality Intact: a High-performance and General Distributed Transaction Protocol

  Ziliang Lai, Hua Fan, Wenchao Zhou, Zhanfeng Ma, Xiang Peng, Feifei Li, Eric Lo

• When Private Blockchain Meets Deterministic Database

  Ziliang Lai, Chris Liu, Eric Lo [paper]

• Top-K Deep Video Analytics: A Probabilistic Approach

  Ziliang Lai, Chenxia Han, Chris Liu, Pengfei Zhang, Eric Lo, Ben Kao [paper] [code]

• Everest: A Top-K Deep Video Analytics System

  Ziliang Lai, Chenxia Han, Chris Liu, Pengfei Zhang, Eric Lo, Ben Kao [paper] [video]

• Saguaro: Efficient Processing of Transactions in Wide Area Networks using a Hierarchical Permissioned Blockchain

  Mohammad Javad Amiri, Ziliang Lai, Liana Patel, Boon Thau Loo, Eric Lo, Wenchao Zhou [paper]

Awards & Scholarships

• SIGMOD 2022 Best Demo Runner-up

• ACM Student Research Competition Grand Final 2022 First Place

• SIGMOD Student Research Competition 2021 First Place

• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme

• Kunkle and Pommerenke Scholarship 2018/2019

• China National Scholarship 2017

• China National Scholarship 2016

• International Aerial Robotics Competition 2017 First Place in System Control