Publications


Computer Science

2025

Liu, Xiaozhen; Huang, Yicong; Lin, Xinyuan; Kumar, Avinash; Alsudais, Sadeem; Li, Chen

Pasta: A Cost-Based Optimizer for Generating Pipelining Schedules for Dataflow DAGs Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2025, (To appear).

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Ni, Shengquan; Huang, Yicong; Wang, Zuozhi; Li, Chen

IcedTea: Efficient and Responsive Time-Travel Debugging in Dataflow Systems Journal Article

In: Proc. VLDB Endow., 2025, (To appear).

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2024

Wang, Zuozhi; Huang, Yicong; Ni, Shengquan; Kumar, Avinash; Alsudais, Sadeem; Liu, Xiaozhen; Lin, Xinyuan; Ding, Yunyan; Li, Chen

Texera: A System for Collaborative and Interactive Data Analytics Using Workflows Journal Article

In: Proc. VLDB Endow. Scalable Data Science track, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 3580–3588, 2024.

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Huang, Yicong; Wang, Zuozhi; Li, Chen

Demonstration of Udon: Line-by-line Debugging of User-Defined Functions in Data Workflows Honorable Mention Proceedings Article

In: Barceló, Pablo; Sánchez-Pi, Nayat; Meliou, Alexandra; Sudarshan, S. (Ed.): Companion of the 2024 International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD/PODS 2024, Santiago AA, Chile, June 9-15, 2024, pp. 476–479, ACM, 2024, (Best Demo Runner-Up Award).

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Taylor, Alexander K. *; Huang, Yicong*; Hao, Junheng; Lin, Xinyuan; Chen, Xiusi; Wang, Wei; Li, Chen

Data Science Tasks Implemented with Scripts versus GUI-Based Workflows: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Workshop

40th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2024 - Workshops, Utrecht, Netherlands, May 13-16, 2024, IEEE, 2024, (*The first two authors share equal contributions).

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2023

Ni, Shengquan; Huang, Yicong; Ko, Jessie W. Y.; Taylor, Alexander; Chen, Xiusi; Kumar, Avinash; Alsudais, Sadeem; Wang, Zuozhi; Liu, Xiaozhen; Wang, Wei; Hopfer, Suellen; Li, Chen

Using Texera to Characterize Climate Change Discussions on Twitter During Wildfires Presentation

Data Science Day at KDD 2023, 22.08.2023.

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Wang, Zuozhi; Li, Chen

Building a Collaborative Data Analytics System: Opportunities and Challenges Workshop

vol. 16, no. 12, 2023.

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Wang, Zuozhi

Texera: A System for Collaborative and Interactive Data Analytics Using Workflows PhD Thesis

University of California, Irvine, USA, 2023.

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Alsudais, Sadeem; Kumar, Avinash; Li, Chen

Raven: Accelerating Execution of Iterative Data Analytics by Reusing Results of Previous Equivalent Versions Workshop

Proceedings of the Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics, HILDA 2023, Seattle, WA, USA, 18 June 2023, ACM, 2023.

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Alsudais, Sadeem

Improving Iterative Analytics in GUI-Based Data-Processing Systems with Visualization, Version Control, and Result Reuse PhD Thesis

University of California, Irvine, USA, 2023.

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Huang, Yicong; Wang, Zuozhi; Li, Chen

Udon: Efficient Debugging of User-Defined Functions in Big Data Systems with Line-by-Line Control Journal Article

In: Proc. ACM SIGMOD, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 225:1–225:26, 2023.

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2022

Kumar, Avinash; Alsudais, Sadeem; Ni, Shengquan; Wang, Zuozhi; Huang, Yicong; Li, Chen

Reshape: Adaptive Result-aware Skew Handling for Exploratory Analysis on Big Data Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2208.13143, 2022.

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Yang, Zhihui; Huang, Yicong; Wang, Zuozhi; Gao, Feng; Lu, Yao; Li, Chen; Wang, X. Sean

Demonstration of Accelerating Machine Learning Inference Queries with Correlative Proxy Models Journal Article

In: Proc. VLDB Endow., vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 3734–3737, 2022.

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Yang, Zhihui; Wang, Zuozhi; Huang, Yicong; Lu, Yao; Li, Chen; Wang, X. Sean

Optimizing Machine Learning Inference Queries with Correlative Proxy Models Journal Article

In: Proc. VLDB Endow., vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 2032–2044, 2022.

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Liu, Xiaozhen; Wang, Zuozhi; Ni, Shengquan; Alsudais, Sadeem; Huang, Yicong; Kumar, Avinash; Li, Chen

Demonstration of Collaborative and Interactive Workflow-Based Data Analytics in Texera Journal Article

In: Proc. VLDB Endow., vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 3738–3741, 2022.

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Kumar, Avinash

Towards Interactive, Adaptive and Result-aware Big Data Analytics PhD Thesis

University of California, Irvine, USA, 2022.

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Wang, Zuozhi; Ni, Shengquan; Kumar, Avinash; Li, Chen

Fries: Fast and Consistent Runtime Reconfiguration in Dataflow Systems with Transactional Guarantees Journal Article

In: Proc. VLDB Endow., vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 256–268, 2022.

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Alsudais, Sadeem

Drove: Tracking Execution Results of Workflows on Large Datasets Workshop

PhD Workshop at VLDB 2022, 2022.

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2020

Wang, Zuozhi; Kumar, Avinash; Ni, Shengquan; Li, Chen

Demonstration of Interactive Runtime Debugging of Distributed Dataflows in Texera Journal Article

In: Proc. VLDB Endow., vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 2953–2956, 2020.

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Kumar, Avinash; Wang, Zuozhi; Ni, Shengquan; Li, Chen

Amber: A Debuggable Dataflow System Based on the Actor Model Journal Article

In: Proc. VLDB Endow., vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 740–753, 2020.

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2017

Wang, Zuozhi; Bayer, Flavio; Lee, Seungjin; Narendran, Kishore; Pan, Xuxi; Tang, Qing; Wang, Jimmy; Li, Chen

A Demonstration of TextDB: Declarative and Scalable Text Analytics on Large Data Sets Best Paper Proceedings Article

In: 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2017, San Diego, CA, USA, April 19-22, 2017, pp. 1403–1404, IEEE Computer Society, 2017, (TextDB was later renamed to Texera in 2018).

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Interdisciplinary

2025

Bai, Jiadong; Liu, Xiaozhen; Cuturrufo, Anthony; Taylor, Alexander Kundu; Hwang, Jeehyun; Ma, Mingyu Derek; Lin, Xinyuan; Zhu, Yanqiao; Huang, Yicong; Ding, Yunyan; Wang, Wei; Li, Chen

DS4ALL: Teaching High-School Students Data Science and AI/ML Using the Texera Workflow Platform as a Service Proceedings Article

In: Data Science Education K-12: Research to Practice Annual Conference, Data Science for Everyone Initiative San Antonio, Texas, 2025.

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2024

Park, Kunwoo; Bai, Jiadong; Lei, Yutong; Lee, Seul; Leng, Dongliang; Zhang, Jing; Wang, Wei; Chen, Shuibing; Li, Chen

CloudMapper: Accelerating Single-Cell RNA Sequence Alignment with a Scalable and User-Friendly Cloud-Based Platform Presentation

San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, 16.12.2024.

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Ding, Yunyan; Huang, Yicong; Gao, Pan; Thai, Andy; Chilaparasetti, Atchuth Naveen; Gopi, M; Xu, Xiangmin; Li, Chen

Brain image data processing using collaborative data workflows on Texera Journal Article

In: Frontiers in Neural Circuits, vol. 18, pp. 1398884, 2024.

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Ko, Jessie WY; Ni, Shengquan; Taylor, Alexander; Chen, Xiusi; Huang, Yicong; Kumar, Avinash; Alsudais, Sadeem; Wang, Zuozhi; Liu, Xiaozhen; Wang, Wei; others,

How the experience of California wildfires shape Twitter climate change framings Journal Article

In: Climatic Change, vol. 177, no. 1, pp. 1–21, 2024.

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Borghouts, Judith; Huang, Yicong; Hopfer, Suellen; Li, Chen; Mark, Gloria

Wording Matters: the Effect of Linguistic Characteristics and Political Ideology on Resharing of COVID-19 Vaccine Tweets Journal Article

In: Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 2024.

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2023

Rhee, Joshua; Huang, Yicong; Alsudais, Sadeem; Ni, Shengquan; Kumar, Avinash; Li, Chen; Timberlake, David

The marketing and perceptions of non-tobacco blunt wraps on Twitter Journal Article

In: Substance Use and Misuse, 2023.

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Borghouts, Judith; Huang, Yicong; Gibbs, Sydney; Hopfer, Suellen; Li, Chen; Mark, Gloria

Understanding underlying moral values and language use of COVID-19 vaccine attitudes on twitter Journal Article

In: PNAS nexus, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. pgad013, 2023.

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2022

Guo, Yawen; Zhu, Jun; Huang, Yicong; He, Lu; He, Changyang; Li, Chen; Zheng, Kai

Public Opinions toward COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: A Machine Learning-based Analysis of U.S. Tweets Proceedings Article

In: AMIA 2022, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, USA, November 5-9, 2022, AMIA, 2022.

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2021

Hopfer, Suellen; Fields, Emilia J; Lu, Yuwen; Ramakrishnan, Ganesh; Grover, Ted; Bai, Quishi; Huang, Yicong; Li, Chen; Mark, Gloria

The social amplification and attenuation of COVID-19 risk perception shaping mask wearing behavior: a longitudinal twitter analysis Journal Article

In: PloS one, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. e0257428, 2021.

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He, Lu; He, Changyang; Reynolds, Tera L.; Bai, Qiushi; Huang, Yicong; Li, Chen; Zheng, Kai; Chen, Yunan

Why do people oppose mask wearing? A comprehensive analysis of U.S. tweets during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal Article

In: J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 1564–1573, 2021.

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