Hi, I’m Jeff! I’m currently a second-year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania where I’m advised by Professors Andrew Head and Ryan Marcus.
Previously, I was an MS Thesis student at Columbia University where I worked on systems to support data visualization interfaces, advised by Professor Eugene Wu.
In a past life, I worked as a senior full-stack software engineer at MongoDB and Microsoft.
News
- I’m at NEDB Day 2024 presenting our work on Bayesian Query Super-Optimization
Publications
DIG: The Data Interface Grammar
Yiru
Chen, Jeffrey Tao, Eugene Wu
HILDA 2023
Demonstration of PI2: Interactive Visualization Interface Generation for SQL Analysis in Notebook
Jeffrey Tao, Yiru Chen, Eugene Wu
SIGMOD 2022
XRP: In-Kernel Storage Functions with eBPF
Yuhong Zhong, Haoyu Li, Yu Jian Wu, Ioannis Zarkadas, Jeffrey Tao, Evan Mesterhazy, Michael
Makris, Junfeng Yang, Amy Tai, Ryan Stutsman, Asaf Cidon
OSDI 2022
Jay Lepreau Best
Paper Award
Projects
In my spare time, I also maintain some side projects:
- Hodllive [source, writeup]: a self-updating plot of VTuber subscriber and viewership counts over time. To my knowledge, this is also the most complete publicly-accessible dataset of historical VTuber subscriber counts.
- Holocraft [source, writeup]: an interface for discovering and viewing clips of Hololive Minecraft streams
- Purist-Rebel [source]: an interface for making “Purist-Rebel” alignment charts.