Publications

    2026

  • SIGMOD
    ReStore: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Data Migration in Multi-Tiered Storage
    Tianru Zhang, Tarikul Islam Papon, Teona Bagashvili, Salman Toor, Manos Athanassoulis
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Management of Data (PACMMOD), 2026
  • VLDB
    ReStore-in-Action: Adaptive Multi-Tier Storage Management via Intelligent Data Migration Policy
    Shadman Saqib Eusuf, Tianru Zhang, Teona Bagashvili, Manos Athanassoulis, Tarikul Islam Papon
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2026
  • TPCTC
    BufBench: A Benchmarking Framework for Buffer Pool Analysis in PostgreSQL
    Aroma Hoque, Tarikul Islam Papon
    Proceedings of the TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC), 2026
  • DaMoN
    ZARC: Re-inventing Zone Allocation for LSMs on ZNS SSD
    Farhan S. Chowdhury, Shadman Saqib Eusuf, Subhadeep Sarkar, Tarikul Islam Papon
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN), 2026
  • IRAI
    Fast Retrieval, Unequal Exposure: Evaluating Efficiency and Exposure Bias in Vector-Based Recommender Systems
    Enock Ayiku, Jain Navkar, Kenneth Fletcher, Tarikul Islam Papon
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Responsible Artificial Intelligence (IRAI), 2026
  • DSI
    Beyond Instant Answers: Designing a RAG-Based Educational Chatbot to Help Students Ask Questions, Refine Ideas, and Develop Critical Thinking
    Rami Huu Huu Nguyen, Funda Durupinar, Tarikul Islam Papon, Christian Calienes Deza, Sun-young Whang
    Proceedings of the Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), 2026 (Abstract)
  • 2025

  • Thesis
    Ph.D. Thesis
    Exploiting SSD Properties to Enhance Data Systems Performance
    Tarikul Islam Papon
    Ph.D. Dissertation, 2025, Department of Computer Science, Boston University, USA
  • SIGMOD
    ACE-in-Action: A Smart DBMS Bufferpool for SSDs
    Teona Bagashvili, Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Management of Data (PACMMOD), 2025
  • 2024

  • SIGMOD
    CAVE: Concurrency-Aware Graph Processing on SSDs
    Tarikul Islam Papon, Taishan Chen, Shuo Zhang, Manos Athanassoulis
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Management of Data (PACMMOD), 2024
  • TKDE
    Effortless Locality on Data Systems Using Relational Fabric
    Tarikul Islam Papon, Ju Hyoung Mun, Konstantinos Karatsenidis, Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ahmed Sanaullah, Ulrich Drepper, Renato Mancuso, Manos Athanassoulis
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2024.
  • ICDE
    Enhancing Data Systems Performance by Exploiting SSD Concurrency & Asymmetry
    Tarikul Islam Papon
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) PhD Symposium, 2024
  • 2023

  • VLDB
    On-the-fly Data Transformation in Action
    Ju Hyoung Mun, Konstantinos Karatsenidis, Tarikul Islam Papon, Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ulrich Drepper, Ahmed Sanaullah, Renato Mancuso, Manos Athanassoulis
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2023
  • ICDE
    ACEing the Bufferpool Management Paradigm for Modern Storage Devices
    Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2023
  • ICDE
    Relational Fabric: Transparent Data Transformation [Vision]
    Tarikul Islam Papon, Ju Hyoung Mun, Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ahmed Sanaullah, Ulrich Drepper, Renato Mancuso, Manos Athanassoulis
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2023
  • CPS-IoT
    Software-Shaped Platforms
    Renato Mancuso, Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ju Hyoung Mun, Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis
    Proceedings of the Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week (CPS-IoT Week Workshops), 2023
  • EDBT
    Relational Memory: Native In-Memory Accesses on Rows and Columns
    Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ju Hyoung Mun, Tarikul Islam Papon, Ahmed Sanaullah, Ulrich Drepper, Renato Mancuso, Manos Athanassoulis
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2023
  • TODS
    Enabling Timely and Persistent Deletion in LSM-Engines
    Subhadeep Sarkar, Tarikul Islam Papon, Dimitris Staratzis, Zichen Zhu, Manos Athanassoulis
    ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 2023
  • NeurIPS
    Silhouette: Toward Performance-Conscious and Transferable CPU Embeddings
    Tarikul Islam Papon, Abdul Wasay
    Workshop on ML for Systems at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
  • 2022

  • DEBull
    Building Deletion-Compliant Data Systems
    Manos Athanassoulis, Subhadeep Sarkar, Tarikul Islam Papon, Zichen Zhu, Dimitris Staratzis
    IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin (IEEE DEBull), 2022
  • SNAM
    UACD: A Local Approach for Identifying the Most Influential Spreaders in Twitter in a Distributed Environment
    T. M. Tariq Adnan, Md. Saiful Islam, Tarikul Islam Papon, Shourav Nath, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan
    Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), Springer, 2022
  • 2021

  • DaMoN
    A Parametric I/O Model for Modern Storage Devices
    Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN), 2021
  • CIDR
    The Need for a New I/O Model
    Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis
    Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2021 (Abstract)
  • 2020

  • SIGMOD
    Lethe: A Tunable Delete-Aware LSM Engine
    Subhadeep Sarkar, Tarikul Islam Papon, Dimitris Staratzis, Manos Athanassoulis
    Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2020
  • 2019

  • Thesis
    M.Sc. Thesis
    Design And Development Of A Deep Learning Based Application For Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy
    Tarikul Islam Papon
    M.Sc. Engineering Thesis, 2019, Department of CSE, BUET, Bangladesh
  • 2017

  • EnvSci Journal
    Rainwater Harvesting System: An Approach for Optimum Tank Size Design and Assessment of Efficiency
    Sadia Tamanna Khan, Ashef Ainan Baksh, Tarikul Islam Papon, Muhammad Ashraf Ali
    International Journal Of Environmental Science and Development, 8(1), 37-43, 2017
  • 2015

  • NSysS
    Non-invasive Heart Rate Measuring Smartphone Applications using On-board Cameras: A Short Survey
    Tarikul Islam Papon, Ishtiyaque Ahmad, Nazmus Saquib, Ashikur Rahman
    The 1st International Conference on Networking Systems and Security 2015 (NSysS), January 5-7, 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • NSysS
    Measurement of Heart Rate Using Photoplethysmography
    Nazmus Saquib, Tarikul Islam Papon, Ishtiyaque Ahmad, Ashikur Rahman
    The 1st International Conference on Networking Systems and Security (NSysS), January 5-7, 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Thesis
    B.Sc. Thesis
    Photoplethysmographic Analysis of Optical Signals : A Single Device to Measure All the Vital Signs
    Tarikul Islam Papon, Nazmus Saquib, Ishtiyaque Ahmad
    B.Sc. Engineering Thesis, 2015, Department of CSE, BUET, Bangladesh