Yizhe Zhang

Yizhe Zhang

PhD Student

University of New South Wales

Research Interests

Compiler(MLIR, JIT Compilation)
Database(Execution Engine, Query Optimization)
Formal Verification(Lean4)

About

I am a PhD student in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), working under the supervision of Professor Jingling Xue.

Prior to this, I obtained a MPhil degree in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), under the supervision of Dr.Zhengyi Yang and Dr.Xin Cao.

Selected Publications

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Polymer: An Explainable Database Execution Engine Based on MLIR

Yizhe Zhang, Bocheng Han, Zhengyi Yang

Presentation at the 10th LLVM Performance Workshop (co-located with CGO 2026)

RISC-V Meets RDBMS: An Experimental Study of Database Performance on an Open Instruction Set Architecture

Yizhe Zhang, Zhengyi Yang, Bocheng Han, Haoran Ning, Xin Cao, John Shepherd, Guanfeng Liu

Proceedings of VLDB 2025 Workshops (ADMS 2025)

News

2026-06

Starting my PhD at the University of New South Wales

2026-05

Finalizing my MPhil at the University of New South Wales 🎉

2024-10

Starting my MPhil at the University of New South Wales