Tarikul Islam Papon

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department
UMass Boston

      

I am Tarikul Islam Papon, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at UMass Boston. I am the Director and Founder of the Computing Hardware & Large Data Lab (CHiLL) @ UMass Boston. My research interests broadly include Data Systems, specifically focusing on hardware-aware data management challenges. I completed my PhD from the Computer Science Department of Boston University advised by Professor Manos Athanassoulis. During my PhD, I also worked as a Research Intern at Intel's Parallel Computing Lab (Summer '22) and at Microsoft Research's Data Systems Group (Summer '21).


Prior to joining Boston University, I was a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) in Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) for 4 years. I completed my MSc and BSc degree from the same department. There I worked on medical informatics using various machine learning and embedded system techniques for health monitoring. Outside of the office I enjoy traveling and playing Pool (mostly 8 Ball and 9 Ball) and Table Tennis. I also love watching movie and tv series.

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, UMass Boston (Sept 2025 - Present)
  • CS Preceptor, Harvard University (Jan 2025 - August 2025)
  • PhD Researcher, Boston University (Sept 2019 - May 2025)
  • Course Instructor, Boston University (Spring 2024)
  • Research Scientist Intern, Intel Corporation (May 2022 - Sept 2022)
  • Research Intern, Microsoft Research (May 2021 - Aug 2021)
  • Lecturer, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Oct 2015 - August 2019)

Recent News

  • Publication
  • Highlight
  • Mar 2026 - "ReStore: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Data Migration in Multi-Tiered Storage" got accepted in SIGMOD 2026!
  • Feb 2026 - I will serve as a Local Arrangements Chair in VLDB 2026.
  • Jan 2026 - I was the Organizer and General Chair of NEDB Day 2026 which held at UMass Boston. My lab presented 3 posters on our work on DB bufferpool, ZNS SSD and LSM compaction. [Poster 1] [Poster 2] [Poster 3]
  • Jan 2026 - Our team will present our work on zone management in ZNS SSD at 2026 New England Systems Day. [Poster]
  • Dec 2025 - I will serve in the program committee of VLDB 2027 and VLDB 2026 Demo.
  • Nov 2025 - I will serve in the program committee of SIGMOD 2027.
  • Sept 2025 - I have joined the CS Department of UMass Boston as an Assistant Professor!
  • July 2025 - I will serve in the program committee of SIGMOD 2026 and SIGMOD 2026 Demo.
  • May 2025 - I am have been awarded this year's BU Computer Science Teaching Excellence Award!
  • Mar 2025 - Our demonstration paper on ACE got accepted in SIGMOD 2025! [Paper]
  • Dec 2024 - I will present a poster on our Reinforcement-learning based data migration policy for tiered storage in NEDB Day, 2025! [Abstract]
  • July 2024 - I will serve in the program committee of SIGMOD 2025 Demo.
  • May 2024 - I received the 2024 SIGMOD Student Scholarship to attend the conference and present our CAVE work in Chile!
  • Apr 2024 - I will give a talk on CAVE and present a poster on design principles of ZNS SSD in NEDB Day, 2024! [Talk Abstract]
  • Mar 2024 - Our invited article on "Effortless Locality on Data Systems using Relational Fabric" got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)! [Official Paper]
  • Feb 2024 - Our work "CAVE: Concurrency-Aware Graph Processing on SSDs" got accepted in SIGMOD 2024! [Local Paper] [Official Paper]
  • Feb 2024 - My research work on SSD-aware data system design has been accepted in IEEE ICDE 2024 Ph.D. Symposium! [Local Paper]
  • Jan 2024 - I will serve as a course instructor for "CS 561: Data Systems Architectures" in Spring 24 at Boston University! [Class Website]
  • Dec 2023 - I have passed my PhD Qualifying Exam! [Thesis Prospectus]
  • Nov 2023 - My internship work at Intel titled "Silhouette: Toward Performance-Conscious and Transferable CPU Embeddings" got accepted in the Workshop on ML for Systems at NeurIPS 2023! [Official Paper]
  • Sept 2023 - "On-the-fly Data Transformation in Action" wins the Best Demo Award at VLDB 2023!
  • June 2023 - Our demonstration "On-the-fly Data Transformation in Action" got accepted in VLDB 2023! [Official Paper]
  • Apr 2023 - Our journal work "Enabling Timely and Persistent Deletion in LSM-Engines" got accepted in ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)! [Official Paper]
  • Mar 2023 - Our work "Software-Shaped Platforms" got accepted in CPS-IoT Week Workshops 2023! [Official Paper]
  • Feb 2023 - Our vision paper "Relational Fabric: Transparent Data Transformation" got accepted in IEEE ICDE 2023! [Official Paper]
  • Nov 2022 - Our work "ACEing the Bufferpool Management Paradigm for Modern Storage Devices" got accepted in IEEE ICDE 2023! [Paper]
  • June 2022 - Our work "Relational Memory: Native In-Memory Accesses on Rows and Columns" got accepted in EDBT 2023! [Official Paper]
  • May 2022 - Really excited to share that I have joined Intel as a Research Scientist Intern for this Summer!
  • May 2022 - I am have been awarded this year's BU Computer Science Research Excellence Award!
  • Mar 2022 - Our invited article on "Building Deletion-Compliant Data Systems" has been accepted in IEEE DEBull. [Official Paper]
  • Jan 2022 - One of my MSc works "UACD: A Local Approach for Identifying the Most Influential Spreaders in Twitter in a Distributed Environment" got accepted in Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)! [Official Paper]
  • June 2021 - Our work "A Parametric I/O Model for Modern Storage Devices" got accepted in DaMoN 2021! [Official Paper] [Video] [Slides]
  • Mar 2021 - Really excited to share that I will be joining Microsoft Research as a Research Intern in Summer 2021!
  • Jan 2021 - Our work "The Need for a New I/O Model" wins honorable mention for Best Gong Show talk at CIDR 2021! [Paper] [Video] [Slides]
  • Mar 2020 - Our work "Lethe: A Tunable Delete-Aware LSM Engine" has been accepted for publication in SIGMOD, 2020! [Paper] [arXiv] [Website] [SIGMOD Presentation Video] [Slides] [Poster]


Contact

t.papon@umb.edu
McCormack Hall, 3rd Floor, M-3-201-28
Department of Computer Science, UMass Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125, USA