I am currently a computer science PhD working with Prof. Pandey Prashant at Northeastern University DATA Lab, where I focus on high performance parallel data structures.

Previously I was a computer science BA/MS student at Boston University. I worked as an undergraduate research assistant at CASP Research Lab, where I worked on adaptive streaming systems.

This is a link to my resume.

Publication

1. Jasper: ANNS Quantized for Speed, Built for Change on GPU

   Hunter McCoy, Zikun Wang, Prashant Pandey

   • Pre-print
   • [paper]
2. CAPSys: Contention-aware task placement for data stream processing

   Yuanli Wang, Lei Huang, Zikun Wang, Vasiliki Kalavri, Ibrahim Matta.

   • EuroSys 2025
   • [paper]
   • [poster]

Posters

• Zero-downtime reconfiguration mechanisms for dynamic data stream processing at Boston University's North East Database Day 2025. Jan 9, 2025.
• Effective Workload Scaling in Streaming System at Boston University's The 27th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Oct 18, 2024.
• A Computational Platform for Visuospatial Assessment at Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference 2024. Aug 9, 2024.
• Automatic Task Placement Decisions for High-throughput and Resource-efficient Data Stream Processing at North East Database Day 2024. May 23, 2024.

Teaching Roles

• Teaching Assistant, GRS CS 630 Graduate algorithm, Boston University, Fall 2024.
• Grader, CAS CS 320 Programming Language, Boston University, Fall 2022.

My favorite band is the Mountain Goats.