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Education

• Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, Arizona State University, 2023 – 2027 (Expected)
  • Advisor: Prof. Zhichao Cao
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 2021 – 2023
  • Advisor: Prof. Faisal Nawab

Work Experience

• Research Intern (Incoming), Microsoft Research, Redmond, US – Summer 2026
• Full-Time Algorithm Engineer, Hikvision, Hangzhou, China – Jul 2020 – Sep 2021

Publications

O3-LSM: Maximizing Disaggregated LSM Write Performance via Three-Layer Offloading

Qi Lin, Gangqi Huang, Te Guo, Chang Guo, Viraj Thakkar, Zichen Zhu, Jianguo Wang, Zhichao Cao. "O3-LSM: Maximizing Disaggregated LSM Write Performance via Three-Layer Offloading." Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2026.

Bit-Flip Error Resilience in LLMs: A Comprehensive Analysis and Defense Framework

Yuhang Chen, Zhen Tan, Ajay Kumar Jaiswal, Huaizhi Qu, Xinyu Zhao, Qi Lin, Yu Cheng, Andrew Kwong, Zhichao Cao, Tianlong Chen. "Bit-Flip Error Resilience in LLMs: A Comprehensive Analysis and Defense Framework." Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025.

RollStore: Hybrid Data Indexing for Decentralized Blockchain Applications

Qi Lin, Binbin Gu, Faisal Nawab. "RollStore: Hybrid Data Indexing for Decentralized Blockchain Applications." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2024.

Serving Deep Learning Model in Relational Databases

Lixi Zhou*, Qi Lin*, Jia Zou. "Serving Deep Learning Model in Relational Databases." Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2024.

Academic Services

• Program Committee Member (Demo Track), ACM SIGSpatial 2025
• Artifact Evaluation Committee Member, FAST 2025; SIGMOD 2025
• Journal Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM); IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)

Grants & Awards

• ASU Fulton Fellowship, Arizona State University (2023–2027)
• Academic Exchange Funding, Southeast University (top 5% selection; 46/1,100+ students), 2019
• National First Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM) (Top 1%; 292/28,665 teams)

Skills

• Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, Java, SQL, MATLAB, Solidity
• Frameworks & Tools: Linux, Docker, Kafka, Flink, RocksDB, Velox, PyTorch, NumPy, pandas, OpenCV, STL, Git, AWS, GCP, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Ethereum, Confluence, Jama, Jira
• Domains: Distributed Systems, Key-Value Stores, Storage Systems, High-Performance Networking (RDMA, CXL), Database Systems, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Data Science, Software Engineering