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Dixin Tang

Assistant Professor

Dixin Tang is an Assistant Professor at the UT Austin Department of Computer Science. Before joining UT Austin, he was a postdoc scholar at UC Berkeley working with Prof. Aditya Parameswaran. He earned his Ph.D. from the CS department of UChicago, advised by Prof. Aaron Elmore. He is passionate about building data systems for modern hardware and applications. His current research interests include vector databases, large-scale unstructured data analysis, and data systems on CXL memory.

Research

Research Areas:
Research Interests:

Vector Databases, Large-Scale Unstructured Data Analysis, Data Systems on CXL Memory

Current Research:

My current research interests include vector databases, large-scale unstructured data analysis, and data systems on CXL memory. 

Research Labs & Affiliations:

UT Data Systems

Select Publications

Homomorphism Calculus for User-Defined Aggregations
Ziteng Wang, Ruijie Fang, Linus Zheng, Dixin Tang, Isil Dillig
OOPSLA 2025

Tigon: A Distributed Database for a CXL Pod
Yibo Huang, Haowei Chen, Newton Ni, Vijay Chidambaram, Dixin Tang, Emmett Witchel
OSDI 2025

Pasha: An Efficient and Scalable Database Architecture on a CXL Pod
Yibo Huang, Newton Ni, Vijay Chidambaram, Dixin Tang, Emmett Witchel
CIDR 2025

Contact Info

Dixin Tang
Assistant Professor
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