Walid G. Aref
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
356
Citations
9,910
Est. group size
~4
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
37
Publishing since 1990
Walid G. Aref works on database systems, focusing on how large volumes of data are stored, indexed, and queried efficiently. Recent work covers new types of data structures (indexes) for multi-dimensional and spatial data, memory management for very large datasets, graph databases, and applying machine learning techniques to improve database performance. This research is relevant to students interested in building faster, more scalable data management systems for modern hardware.
Publication output declined from about 17-19 papers per year in 2017-2019 to a low of around 7-9 papers between 2021-2023, before rising again to roughly 8-13 papers annually in 2024-2026.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- P-MOSS: Scheduling Main-Memory Indexes Over NUMA Servers Using Next Token Prediction
Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data · 2026
- BMTree: Designing, Learning, and Updating Piecewise Space-Filling Curves for Multi-Dimensional Data Indexing
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 2026
- Gen-DBA: Generative Database Agents
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
- Gen-DBA: Generative Database Agents
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
- An Empirical Survey and Benchmark of Learned Distance Indexes for Road Networks
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
- Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management In Tiered Memory
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
- Towards a B+-tree with Fluctuation-Free Performance
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
- Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management In Tiered Memory
2026
- Cache Coherence Over Disaggregated Memory
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2025
- A Survey of Learned Indexes for the Multi-dimensional Space
ACM Computing Surveys · 2025
- The Ubiquitous Skiplist: A Survey of What Cannot be Skipped About the Skiplist and its Applications in Data Systems
ACM Computing Surveys · 2025
- GTX: A Write-Optimized Latch-free Graph Data System with Transactional Support
Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data · 2025
- Learned Indexes From the One-dimensional to the Multi-dimensional Spaces: Challenges, Techniques, and Opportunities
2025
- Tradeoffs in Processing Queries and Supporting Updates over an ML-Enhanced R-tree
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025
- An Adaptive Index for Oscillating Write-Heavy and Read-Heavy Workloads
2025
- arXiv (Cornell University)×34
- ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems×10
- Encyclopedia of Database Systems×8
- Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment×7
- Synthesis lectures on data management×7
- Jianting Zhang
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Yeasir Rayhan
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Arnab Nandi
Computer Science · The Ohio State University
- Ramesh Venkataraman
Computer Science · Indiana University
- Xiaodong Zhang
Computer Science · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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