Biosketch
David Chiu is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Puget Sound. He is the inaugural director of Puget Sound's Students of Color Living-and-Learning Community.
David received a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2010 as a member of the Systems Group. He was advised by Gagan Agrawal (now founding Director of University of Georgia's School of Computing), and worked on problems in the dynamic composition, modeling, and performance optimizations of scientific workflows in distributed cloud systems. Prior to Ohio State, he studied under Paul S. Wang on the web transmission of math education modules. Between 2010 to 2014, he was an Assistant Professor and the Graduate Studies Chair in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University, Vancouver. Since 2014, he has been with the University of Puget Sound as an Assistant, Associate, and now Full Professor. He also served a rotation as department chair from 2019 to 2022.
David has over 20 years of college teaching experience and is heavily engaged in mentoring and research with undergraduate students. He has supervised over 25 research students on topics spanning data management, distributed cloud computing, and green computing. He has published numerous papers in these areas, and he regularly serves on the organizational and technical program committees of international conferences. David is the recipient of multiple teaching and research awards, including the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2022), the Bartanen Research Award (2017) both from the University of Puget Sound, and the Eleanor Quinlan Award for Excellence in Teaching from The Ohio State University. He has (co)authored several publications earning Best Paper Award honors at internationally recognized conferences.
Here’s a link to my curriculum vitae.
Recent Activities
- (12/2023) We have received the Best Paper Award at IEEE/ACM BDCAT 2023 conference for “Workload-Aware Cache Management of Bitmap Indices”!
- (10/2023) Our paper, “Workload-Aware Cache Management of Bitmap Indices” has been accepted for publication at BDCAT 2023. Congratulations to my student co-author Julia Kaeppel!
- (8/2023) Appointed to serve on the Total Compensation and Benefits Project, University of Puget Sound.
- (7/2023) Serving on the PC for BDCAT 2023.
- (4/2023) Congrats to Julia Kaeppel on receiving a McCormick Student Research Award.
- (2/2023) Appointed to serve as the inaugural Advisor to Student of Color Residential Community (SCRC), University of Puget Sound.
- (1/2023) Featured in the “Five Questions Series” in Arches magazine.
- (8/2022) Received an NSF grant to provide travel scholarships to students attending IEEE/ACM UCC 2022 and BDCAT 2022 conferences. I am also chairing the student travel awards committee.
- (8/2022) Received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
- (5/2022) Co-chairing the Poster Program at IEEE/ACM UCC 2022 and BDCAT 2022, both to be held in Portland, Oregon in December.
- (4/2022) Promoted to Full Professor, effective July 2022.
- (4/2022) Serving as a PC member for IDEAS 2022.
- (8/2021) Faculty Panelist (with Monica DeHart and Melvin Rouse) for the “I Am Puget Sound” student orientation program.
- (7/2021) Chairing the Demo/Short Paper Session at SSDBM 2021, and I’m also giving a talk, “Caching Support for Range Query Processing on Bitmap Indices.”
- (5/2021) Our paper on bitmap caching has been accepted to SSDBM 2021 as a long paper. Congrats to Sarah McClain (BS’20), Manya Mutschler-Aldine (BS’21), and Colin Monaghan (BS’22).
- (6/2020) Elevation to IEEE Senior Member grade.
- (4/2020) Congrats to Colin Monaghan on receiving a summer research grant to study replacement policies in bitmap index caching.
- (2/2020) Our paper on optimizing GPU processing of bitmaps has been accepted for publication at DASFAA 2020.
- (10/2019) Our paper on GPU processing of bitmap-range queries has been accepted for publication at BDCAT 2019. It was nominated for the Best Paper award.
- (4/2019) Our paper on geo-diversification has been accepted for publication at IEEE CLOUD 2019 in Milan, Italy. Congrats to Jared Polonitza on his first publication.
- (4/2019) Congrats to Sarah McClain on receiving a summer research grant to work on semantic caching of bitmap indices.
- (3/2019) Serving on the PC for HiPC’19. Please consider submitting a paper.
- (10/2018) Our paper on distributed bitmap indexing has been accepted for publication at BDCAT’18. It was nominated for the Best Paper award.
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