Dr. Chunxu Tang is a Research Scientist at Alluxio and a committer of PrestoDB. Prior to Alluxio, he served as a Senior Software Engineer in Twitter’s data platform team, where he gained extensive experience with a wide range of data systems, including Presto, Zeppelin, BigQuery, and Druid. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University, where he conducted research on distributed collaboration systems and machine learning applications.