Zhanhao Zhao (赵展浩)

Research Fellow
National University of Singapore
zhzhao AT comp.nus.edu.sg
[C.V.]    [Google Scholar]

I am currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore. I work on Database Systems, advised by Prof Beng Chin Ooi and Prof Xiaokui Xiao.

I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science from Renmin University of China in 2023, under the supervision of Prof Xiaoyong Du and Prof Wei Lu. I was a visiting PhD student in National Univeristy of Singapore, supervised by Prof Beng Chin Ooi. I received my Bachelor’s degree from Zhongnan University of Economic and Law. I also worked in Tencent as a Research Intern from 2017 to 2023.

My current research interests: (1) AI-powered Database Systems; (2) Transaction Processing.

Publications

1. Towards Effective Orchestration of AI x DB Workloads, (to appear) PVLDB 2026,
Naili Xing , Haotian Gao , Zhanhao Zhao* , Shaofeng Cai , Zhaojing Luo , Yuncheng Wu , Zhongle Xie , Meihui Zhang , Beng Chin Ooi
2. TVA: A Version-aware Temporal Graph Storage System for Real-time Analytics, (to appear) PVLDB 2026,
Wenhao Li , Zhanhao Zhao , Jinhao Dong , Jiamin Hou , Wei Lu , Yunhai Wang , Xiaoyong Du
3. On Self-Designing Learned Indexes, SIGMOD 2026,
Baofu Han , Guoyu Hu , Bing Li , Xiaokui Xiao , Zhanhao Zhao* , Beng Chin Ooi
[PDF]
4. NeurBench: A Benchmark Suite for Learned Database Components with Drift Modeling, SIGMOD 2026,
Zhanhao Zhao , Haotian Gao , Naili Xing , Lingze Zeng , Meihui Zhang , Gang Chen , Manuel Rigger , Beng Chin Ooi
[PDF]
5. NeurStore: Efficient In-database Deep Learning Model Management System, SIGMOD 2026,
Siqi Xiang , Sheng Wang , Xiaokui Xiao , Cong Yue , Zhanhao Zhao , Beng Chin Ooi
[PDF] [CODE]
6. An Efficient Two-Round Distributed Transaction Processing Approach over Heterogeneous Networks, VLDB Journal 2025,
Hongyao Zhao , Wei Lu , Zhanhao Zhao , Yinhao Hong , Quanqing Xu , Jinliang Xiao , Fusheng Han , Chuanhui Yang , Xiaoyong Du
[PDF]
7. TxnSails: Achieving Serializable Transaction Scheduling with Self-Adaptive Isolation Level Selection, PVLDB 2025,
Qiyu Zhuang , Wei Lu , Shuang Liu , Yuxing Chen , Xinyue Shi , Zhanhao Zhao , Yipeng Sun , Anqun Pan , Xiaoyong Du
[PDF] [CODE]
8. An Efficient and Scalable Graph Database with Built-in Temporal Support, VLDB Journal 2025,
Jiamin Hou , Zhanhao Zhao* , Wei Lu , Shiming Yang , Shuang Liu , Quanqing Xu , Chuanhui Yang , Xiaoyong Du
[PDF]
9. GeoTP: Latency-aware Geo-Distributed Transaction Processing in Database Middlewares, ICDE 2025,
Qiyu Zhuang , Xinyue Shi , Shuang Liu , Wei Lu , Zhanhao Zhao , Yuxing Chen , Tong Li , Anqun Pan , Xiaoyong Du
[PDF] [CODE]
10. NeurDB: On the Design and Implementation of an AI-powered Autonomous Database, CIDR 2025,
Zhanhao Zhao , Shaofeng Cai , Haotian Gao , Hexiang Pan , Siqi Xiang , Naili Xing , Gang Chen , Beng Chin Ooi , Yanyan Shen , Yuncheng Wu , Meihui Zhang
[PDF] [CODE]
11. NeurDB: An AI-powered Autonomous Data System, Science China Information Sciences (SCIS) 2024,
Beng Chin Ooi , Shaofeng Cai , Gang Chen , Kian-Lee Tan , Yuncheng Wu , Xiaokui Xiao , Naili Xing , Cong Yue , Lingze Zeng , Meihui Zhang , Zhanhao Zhao*
[PDF] [WEBSITE]
12. VeriTxn: Verifiable Transactions for Cloud-Native Databases with Storage Disaggregation, SIGMOD 2024,
Zhanhao Zhao , Hexiang Pan , Gang Cheng , Xiaoyong Du , Wei Lu , Beng Chin Ooi
[PDF] [CODE]
13. AeonG: An Efficient Built-in Temporal Support in Graph Databases, PVLDB 2024,
Jiamin Hou , Zhanhao Zhao , Zhouyu Wang , Wei Lu , Guodong Jin , Dong Wen , Xiaoyong Du
[PDF] [CODE]
14. FC: Adaptive Atomic Commit via Failure Detection, ICDE 2024,
Hexiang Pan , Quang-Trung Ta , Meihui Zhang , Zhanhao Zhao , Yeow Meng Chee , Gang Chen , Beng Chin Ooi
[PDF] [CODE]
15. Lion: Minimizing Distributed Transactions through Adaptive Replica Provision, ICDE 2024,
Qiushi Zheng , Zhanhao Zhao , Wei Lu , Chang Yao , Yuxing Chen , Xiaoyong Du , Anqun Pan
[PDF] [CODE]
16. Efficiently Supporting Multi-Level Serializability in Decentralized Database Systems, TKDE 2023,
Zhanhao Zhao , Hongyao Zhao , Qiyu Zhuang , Wei Lu , Haixiang Li , Meihui Zhang , Anqun Pan , Xiaoyong Du
[PDF] [CODE]
17. Theoretical Study on Multi-level Consistency Modeling in Distributed Databases, Journal of Software (JOS), in Chinese 2023,
Zhiyu Shui , Wei Lu , Zhanhao Zhao , Yueyang He , Xiao Zhang , Xiaoyong Du
[PDF]
18. T-SQL: A Lightweight Implementation to Enable Built-in Temporal Support in RDBMSs, TKDE 2023,
Zhanhao Zhao , Wei Lu , Hongyao Zhao , Zongyan He , Haixiang Li , Anqun Pan , Xiaoyong Du
[PDF] [CODE]
19. Experimental Study on Concurrency Control Algorithms in In-memory Databases, Journal of Software (JOS), in Chinese 2022,
Hongyao Zhao , Zhanhao Zhao , Wanqing Yang , Wei Lu , Haixiang Li , Xiaoyong Du
[PDF]
20. Efficiently Supporting Adaptive Multi-Level Serializability Models in Distributed Database Systems, SIGMOD (SRC) 2021,
Zhanhao Zhao
[PDF]
21. A Lightweight and Efficient Temporal Database Management System in TDSQL, PVLDB 2019,
Wei Lu , Zhanhao Zhao , Xiaoyu Wang , Haixiang Li , Zhenmiao Zhang , Zhiyu Shui , Sheng Ye , Anqun Pan , Xiaoyong Du
[PDF]
22. Efficient Time-interval Data Extraction in MVCC-based RDBMS, World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ) 2019,
Haixiang Li , Zhanhao Zhao , Yijian Cheng , Wei Lu , Xiaoyong Du , Anqun Pan
[PDF]
23. SQL-based Solution for Fast Graph Similarity Search, Journal of Software (JOS), in Chinese 2018,
Zhanhao Zhao , Feiran Huang , Xiaoli Wang , Wei Lu , Xiaoyong Du
[PDF]

Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Renmin University of China, 2024
  • Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, CCF TCDB, 2024
  • Graduates with Honors Award, Beijing Government, 2023
  • First-class Award for Science and Technology Progress, Shenzhen Government, 2022
  • National Scholarship for Ph.D Students, China, 2021

Professional Services

  • Conference PC: ICDE'26, CIKM'26, CIKM'25, VLDB'24 Demo, Dasfaa'24 Demo, Dasfaa'23 Demo
  • Journal Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)