Hanfeng.Chen @ Sable.McGill¶
About Me¶
I'm a last-year Ph.D. candidate supervised by Professor Bettina Kemme and Professor Laurie Hendren at McGill University.
Prior to my Ph.D., I had worked on an array programming language, APL, for five years. Dr. Wai-Mee Ching and I designed and implemented a new programming language, ELI (wiki | home | iBooks), which is a dialect of APL. ELI, as a high-level array programming language, provides a large set of primitives, and it begins to add support for basic database operations within the language.
At beginning of my research at McGill, I worked on automatic vectorization for MATLAB, which is a dynamic language widely used in the field of engineering; Currently, I'm interested in combining array programming and in-memory database system to improve the performance of database query processing. The details of our latest project can be found on GitHub.
Projects¶
- [ Access ] HorsePower, a framework for optimizing database queries
- [ Access ] Mc2Mc, a MATLAB to MATLAB source code translator for MATLAB vectorization
- [ Access ] ELI, a simple system for array programming
- [ Access ] ECC, an ELI to C compiler
Publications¶
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Hanfeng Chen, Joseph Vinish D’silva, Laurie Hendren, Bettina Kemme, HorsePower: Accelerating Database Queries for Advanced Data Analytics, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, (EDBT’21), pp. 361-366, March 2021.
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Hanfeng Chen, Alexander Krolik, Bettina Kemme, Clark Verbrugge, and Laurie Hendren, Improving Database Query Performance with Automatic Fusion, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Compiler Construction, (CC'20), pp. 63-73, February 2020. (Best paper finalist)
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Hanfeng Chen, Joseph Vinish D’silva, Hongji Chen, Bettina Kemme, and Laurie Hendren, HorseIR: Bringing Array Programming Languages together with Database Query Processing, Proceedings of the 14th Symposium on Dynamic Languages, (DLS'18), pp. 37-49, November 2018.
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David Herrera, Hanfeng Chen, Erick Lavoie, and Laurie Hendren, Numerical Computing on the Web - Benchmarking for the Future, Proceedings of the 14th Symposium on Dynamic Languages, (DLS'18), pp. 88-100, November 2018.
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Hanfeng Chen, Wai-Mee Ching, and Laurie Hendren, An ELI-to-C Compiler: Design, Implementation, and Performance, Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop of Libraries, Languages and Compilers for Array Programming (ARRAY'17), pp. 9-16, June 2017.
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Hanfeng Chen, Alexander Krolik, Erick Lavoie, and Laurie Hendren, Automatic vectorization for MATLAB, The 29th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC'16), Rochester, NY, USA, pp. 171-187, September 2016.
Contact¶
Email: firstname.chen [AT] mail.mcgill.ca