Biosketch
David Chiu is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Puget Sound. He is the inaugural Director and Faculty Advisor of the Students of Color Residential Community.
David holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2010 under the direction of Gagan Agrawal (now Founding Director of UGA's School of Computing). A member of the Systems Group, he worked on problems in the dynamic composition, modeling, and performance optimizations of scientific workflows deployed in distributed cloud systems. Prior to Ohio State, he worked under Paul S. Wang on projects involving 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 Professor (2014 - 2017), Associate Professor (2017 - 2022), and Professor (2022 - ). He also completed a rotation as the Department Chair between 2019 and 2022.
David is heavily engaged in mentoring and research with undergraduate students. He has supervised over 25 research students on topics spanning data management and cloud computing. He regularly serves on the organizational and technical program committees of international conferences in these areas. David is the recipient of several awards, including the Influential Faculty of Color Award (2024), the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2022), the Bartanen Research Award (2017) from the University of Puget Sound, as well as the Eleanor Quinlan Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching (2009) from The Ohio State University. He is a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE.
Recent Activities
- (02/2025) Search Committee, Department of Communications Studies, University of Puget Sound.
- (08/2024) Co-chairing the International Education Committee (IEC), University of Puget Sound.
- (09/2024) Serving on the PC for BDCAT 2024.
- (09/2024) Serving as a New Faculty Mentor for 2024.
- (08/2024) I’m excited to be teaching at the Tunghai University International College, Taiwan, in 2025.
- (08/2024) Led a panel discussion on supporting underrepresented students for Peer Advisor Training, University of Puget Sound.
- (06/2024) I will be giving a talk at the 2024 Puget Sound Alumni College: “Bitmap Indexing for Database Systems”
- (05/2024) I will be serving on the program committee for HiPC 2024.
- (05/2024) I’m honored to receive the 2024 Influential Faculty of Color Award, University of Puget Sound.
- (05/2024) My research student, Julia Kaeppel, has been named the Goman Outstanding Senior in Computer Science.
- (12/2023) We have received the Best Paper Award at IEEE/ACM BDCAT 2023 conference for “Workload-Aware Cache Management of Bitmap Indices.” Here’s a featured story in The Hatchet.
- (10/2023) Our paper, “Workload-Aware Cache Management of Bitmap Indices” has been accepted for publication at BDCAT 2023.
- (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 2022 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.
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