Shixuan Sun is currently a Tenure-Track Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is also a member of the EPCC Lab. His research interests are in database systems, graph algorithms, and parallel computing. Current focus is on building high-performance graph data management systems.

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2020, supervised by Prof. Qiong Luo. Prior to that, he got his M.S and B.S. in Computer Sciences from the School of Software Engineering, Tongji University in 2014 and 2011 respectively. From 2020 to 2023, he worked as a research fellow at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, supervised by Prof. Bingsheng He. Additionally, he worked as a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft (Shanghai) from 2014 to 2015.

News

• [2025.2]: GES: High-Performance Graph Processing Engine and Service in Huawei was accepted to SIGMOD’25.
• [2024.11]: Revisiting the Design of In-Memory Dynamic Graph Storage was accepted to SIGMOD’25.

Research

• Database system
• RAG system
• LLM deployment

Contact

Email: [sunshixuan] AT [sjtu] DOT [edu] DOT [cn]

Open Positions

I am looking for self-motivated PhD students, master students and research assistants. Please drop me an email with your CV if you are interested in high-performance and large-scale data processing including high-performance graph database management systems, graph computing frameworks, graph algorithms and parallel computing.

Professional Services

• Web Chair for APSys 2022
• PC Member for VLDB 2025, ICDE 2024, IPDPS 2024, EDBT 2023, CCGrid 2021, HiPC 2021, 2022, 2023
• Invited Reviewer for TODS, VLDBJ, TKDE, ACM Transactions on Storage, ICDCS 2021, ACM Computing Surveys, DMKD

Teaching Experiences

• Lecturer, Shanghai Jiao Tong University CS1501 Programming Concepts and Methods (C++)
• Lecturer, Shanghai Jiao Tong University CS2310 Operating System
• Guest Lecturer, HKUST(GZ) DSAA6000D Graph Processing and Analytics, Accelerating Subgraph Query Processing on a Single Machine (2.5 hours tutorial in Sep 2022) [Slides]
• Teaching Assistant, HKUST COMP5311 Database Architecture and Implementation
• Teaching Assistant, HKUST MSBD5009 Parallel Programming

Honors & Awards

• The Championship of Alibaba POLARDB High Performance Competition (1/1808) [News][Code][Slides]
• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Award 2015-2019
• Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai 2011,2014
• China National Scholarship 2009,2013
• Google Excellent Student Scholarship 2010