Jialin Ding

Jialin

I will start as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University in Fall 2025. I am looking for PhD students to join my group. If interested, please apply through Princeton and mention my name in your statement.

I am currently an applied scientist at AWS, where I work on autonomics in Amazon Redshift. I was previously a CS PhD in the MIT Data Systems Group, where I was advised by Prof. Tim Kraska. My research was partly supported by a Meta PhD Fellowship.

I research machine learning and optimization techniques for data systems, with a focus on instance-optimization, a new design paradigm for building data systems that can automatically self-optimize to achieve the best performance for any specific application or use case. I have leveraged instance-optimization to introduce novel designs for data storage layouts (1, 2, 3, 4), database indexes (5, 6, 7) and end-to-end data systems (8, 9). See here for a more detailed description of my past and future research directions.

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