Haonan Lu

Haonan Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences). His research focuses on distributed systems and databases, with particular emphasis on concurrency control, transaction processing, and database performance optimization. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (2019).

• Education: PhD, Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2019

Dr. Lu's work addresses challenges in distributed database systems, including optimizing skewed workloads, concurrency control mechanisms, and cross-datacenter storage efficiency. His recent projects explore latency-optimal read transactions and natural concurrency control (NCC) frameworks. He actively publishes in top-tier conferences and maintains an open research website and Google Scholar profile.

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