Biosketch
David Chiu is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Puget Sound. He is the inaugural director of Puget Sound's Students of Color Living-and-Learning Community.
David received a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2010 as a member of the Systems Group. He was advised by Gagan Agrawal (now founding Director of University of Georgia's School of Computing), and worked on problems in the dynamic composition, modeling, and performance optimizations of scientific workflows in distributed cloud systems. Prior to Ohio State, he studied 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, Associate, and Full Professor. He also completed a rotation as Department Chair from 2019 to 2022.
David has over 20 years of college teaching experience and is heavily engaged in mentoring and research with undergraduates. He has supervised over 25 research students working on topics spanning data management and cloud computing. He has published numerous papers in these areas, and he regularly serves on the organizational and technical program committees of international conferences in these areas. David has received several teaching and research 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.
Here’s a link to my curriculum vitae.
Recent Activities
- (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 student, Julia Kaeppel, has been named the Goman Outstanding Senior Award 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. Congratulations to my student, Julia Kaeppel!
- (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.
Quick Links
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