Dong Xie wins best paper award at data management conference
Aug 1, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Dong Xie, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, and his collaborators received a 2025 Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Management of Data International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD), which took place from June 22–27 in Berlin, Germany.
Considered one of the leading conferences in data management, ACM SIGMOD selected the team’s paper, “Userspace Interrupts: Why Wait or Yield When You Can Preempt?,” as one of the best papers in the highly competitive research track.
The paper proposes a novel approach to reduce latency in transaction scheduling systems. By enabling lightweight preemption mechanisms, the team’s method outperforms traditional wait or yield strategies, offering more efficient transaction handling in high-performance systems.
Xie's broader research focuses on building high-performance and dependable data management systems to support modern applications, including cloud computing, real-time analytics and large-scale distributed services. Through innovative systems-level techniques, his work addresses critical performance bottlenecks and strives to improve the scalability, responsiveness and reliability of data infrastructure, according to Xie.
Xie earned a doctorate in computer science from the University of Utah in 2020 and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2015. He has received several recognitions for his research, including a Google Research Scholar Award in 2020, an ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing Best Paper Runner-Up Award in 2019 and an ACM SIGMOD Student Travel Grant in 2019.