Tarikul Islam Papon PhD Researcher@Boston University

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Information Boston University
CDS 925, 665 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Website: https://cs-people.bu.edu/papon

Research Databases, Data Management, Data Systems, Storage Systems, Flash Memory,
Interests Near-Data Processing, Disaggregated Memory and Storage.

Professional • CS Preceptor at SEAS, Harvard University, MA, USA Jan ’25 - Present
Experience • PhD Researcher at Boston University, MA, USA Sept ’19 - Present
• Course Instructor at Boston University, MA, USA Spring 2024
• Research Scientist Intern at Intel Corporation, CA, USA May ’22 - Sept ’22
I worked with the Parallel Computing Lab on creating hardware embedding for
general-purpose CPUs.
• Research Intern at Microsoft Research, WA, USA May ’21 - Aug ’21
I worked with MSR’s Data Systems Group on column-store reclustering.
• Lecturer at CSE, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh Oct ’15 - Aug ’19

Education Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2019 - Present

Boston University, Massachusetts, USA.
Expected Graduation: Mar, 2025
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2016 - 2019
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Thesis: “Design and Development of A Deep Learning Based Application for Detecting
Diabetic Retinopathy”
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2010 - 2015
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Thesis: “Photoplethysmographic Analysis of Optical Signals : A Single Device to
Measure All the Vital Signs”

Scholarships • SIGMOD Travel Scholarship, SIGMOD 2024

and Awards
• Best Demo Award, VLDB 2023
(Selected)
• Travel Award, IEEE ICDE 2023
• Research Excellence Award, Boston University 2022
• Dean’s Fellowship, Boston University Fall 2019
• Dean’s Honor List in all 4 levels of Undergrad 2010-2015
• University Merit Scholarship in all 8 semesters of Undergrad 2010-2015
• Champion of the Intra University Database Project Show, BUET 2013
• Champion of the Intra University Robotics Contest, BUET 2012
• Champion of the Intra University Logic Olympiad, BUET 2012

Publications 1. Tarikul Islam Papon, Teona Bagashbili, Manos Athanassoulis. ACE-in-Action:

A Smart DBMS Bufferpool for SSDs, In Proceedings of the ACM on Management
of Data (SIGMOD), 2025. (Demonstration)
2. Tarikul Islam Papon, Taishan Chen, Shuo Zhang, Manos Athanassoulis. CAVE:
Concurrency-Aware Graph Processing on SSDs, In Proceedings of the ACM on
Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2024.

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 3. Tarikul Islam Papon, Ju Hyoung Mun, Konstantinos Karatsenidis, Shahin
Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ahmed Sanaullah, Ulrich Drepper, Renato Mancuso,
Manos Athanassoulis. Effortless Locality on Data Systems using Relational Fabric,
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2024.
4. Tarikul Islam Papon. Enhancing Data Systems Performance by Exploiting SSD
Concurrency & Asymmetry, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference
on Data Engineering (ICDE) PhD Symposium, 2024.
5. Tarikul Islam Papon, Abdul Wasay. Silhouette: Toward Performance-Conscious
and Transferable CPU Embeddings, Workshop on ML for Systems at the Conference
on Neural Information Processing Systems (ML-for-Systems@NeurIPS), 2023.
6. Subhadeep Sarkar, Tarikul Islam Papon, Dimitris Staratzis, Zichen Zhu, Manos
Athanassoulis. Enabling Timely and Persistent Deletion in LSM-Engines, ACM
Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 2023.
7. Ju Hyoung Mun, Konstantinos Karatsenidis, Tarikul Islam Papon, Shahin
Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ulrich Drepper, Ahmed Sanaullah, Renato Mancuso,
Manos Athanassoulis. On-the-fly Data Transformation in Action, In Proceedings
of the VLDB Endowment, 2023. (Demonstration) [Best Demo Award]
8. Renato Mancuso, Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ju Hyoung Mun, Tarikul
Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis. Software-Shaped Platforms, In Proceedings
of the Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week (CPS-IoT Week
Workshops), 2023.
9. Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis. ACEing the Bufferpool Management
Paradigm for Modern Storage Devices, In Proceedings of the IEEE International
Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2023.
10. Tarikul Islam Papon, Ju Hyoung Mun, Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert,
Ahmed Sanaullah, Ulrich Drepper, Renato Mancuso, Manos Athanassoulis. Relational
Fabric: Transparent Data Transformation [Vision], In Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2023. [Invited for IEEE
TKDE Special Issue for ICDE 2023 Best and Innovation Papers.]
11. Shahin Roozkhosh, Denis Hoornaert, Ju Hyoung Mun, Tarikul Islam Papon,
Ahmed Sanaullah, Ulrich Drepper, Renato Mancuso, Manos Athanassoulis. Relational
Memory: Native In-Memory Accesses on Rows and Columns, In Proceedings of
the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2023.
12. Manos Athanassoulis, Subhadeep Sarkar, Tarikul Islam Papon, Zichen Zhu,
Dimitris Staratzis. Building Deletion-Compliant Data Systems, IEEE Data Engi-
neering Bulletin (IEEE DEBull), 2022.

13. T. M. Tariq Adnan, Md. Saiful Islam, Tarikul Islam Papon, Shourav Nath,
Muhammad Abdullah Adnan. UACD: A Local Approach for Identifying the Most
Influential Spreaders in Twitter in a Distributed Environment, Social Network
Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 12(1), 1-21, Springer, 2022.
14. Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis. A Parametric I/O Model for
Modern Storage Devices, In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data
Management on New Hardware (DaMoN), 2021.
15. Tarikul Islam Papon, Manos Athanassoulis. The Need for a New I/O Model,
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2021. (Abstract)
[Honorable Mention for Best Gong Show Talk]
16. Subhadeep Sarkar, Tarikul Islam Papon, Dimitris Staratzis, Manos Athanassoulis.
Lethe: A Tunable Delete-Aware LSM Engine, In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD
International Conference on Management of Data, 2020.

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 17. Sadia Tamanna Khan, Ashef Ainan Baksh, Tarikul Islam Papon, Muham-
mad Ashraf Ali. Rainwater Harvesting System: An Approach for Optimum Tank
Size Design and Assessment of Efficiency, International Journal of Enviro-
nmental Science and Development (IJESD), 8(1), 37-43, 2017.
18. Tarikul Islam Papon, Ishtiyaque Ahmad, Nazmus Saquib and Ashikur Rahman.
Non-invasive Heart Rate Measuring Smartphone Applications using On-board Cameras:
A Short Survey. The 1st International Conference on Networking Systems and
Security (NSysS), January 5-7, 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
19. Nazmus Saquib, Tarikul Islam Papon, Ishtiyaque Ahmad and Ashikur Rahman.
Measurement of Heart Rate Using Photoplethysmography. The 1st International
Conference on Networking Systems and Security (NSysS), January 5-7, 2015,
Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Research 1. “Optimizing Data Systems for Modern Storage and Memory Technology”, Oct
Talks 2024, Guest Lecture@COSI 127B, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA.
2. “CAVE: Concurrency-Aware Graph Processing System on SSDs”, June 2024,
SIGMOD, Santiago, Chile.
3. “Concurrency-Aware Graph Processing System for SSD”, May 2024, NEDB Day,
Boston, USA.
4. “ACEing the Bufferpool Management Paradigm for Modern Storage Devices”,
Apr 2023, ICDE, Anaheim, USA.
5. “The Parametric I/O Model & its Applicability on DBMS Bufferpool”, Mar 2023,
Guest Lecture@CS 561, Boston University, USA.
6. “Can we make Asymmetry/Concurrency-Aware Bufferpool Manager for SSDs?”,
December 2022, DIAS Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
7. “Asymmetry/Concurrency-Aware Bufferpool Manager for Modern Storage Devices”,
April 2022, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
8. “A Parametric I/O Model for Modern Storage Devices”, June 2021, DaMoN
Workshop, China.
9. “The Case for a Parametric I/O Model”, May 2020, MiDAS Seminar, Boston
University, USA.

Media • “ACEing the Bufferpool Management Paradigm for Modern Storage Devices”,
InterView Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast, June 2023.

Posters and 1. ReStore: RL-Based Data Migration for Multi-Tiered Storage, Poster at North
Presentations East Database (NEDB) Day, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA, 2025.
2. • CAVE: Concurrency-Aware Graph Processing System for SSD, • ZNS SSDs:
Architectural Insights and Performance Analysis, Posters at North East Database
(NEDB) Day, Boston University, Boston, USA, 2024.
3. • ACE Bufferpool Management for SSDs, • Relational Fabric: Effortless Locality
for Data-intensive Systems, • Relational Memory: Native In-Memory Accesses on
Rows and Columns, • Building Robust LSM-based Data Stores, Posters at North
East Database (NEDB) Day, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, 2023.
4. Relational Memory: Native In-Memory Stride Access, Poster & Presentation at
DevConf. US 2022, Boston, USA.
5. Lethe: A Delete-Aware LSM Engine, Poster at North East Database Day 2020.

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Teaching Boston University (Course Instructor)
Experience
• CS 561 (Data Systems Architectures) Spring 2024
(Selected)
Boston University (Teaching Fellow)
• CS 210 (Computer Systems) Fall 2023
• CS 561 (Data Systems Architectures) Spring 2023, Spring 2021
• CS 460 (Introduction to Database Systems) Fall 2021
• CS 460 (Introduction to Database Systems) Fall 2020

Bangladesh University of Engg. and Tech. (Lecturer) 2015 - 2019

Theory Courses
• CSE 453 (High-Performance Database Systems) Jan 2019
• CSE 433 (Digital Image Processing) Jan 2018, Jul 2016
• CSE 317 (Numerical Methods) Jul 2017
• CSE 307 (Software Engineering & Information System Design) Jan 2017
Lab Courses
• CSE 218 (Numerical Methods Lab) Jan 2019
• CSE 410 (Computer Graphics Lab) Jan 2019
• CSE 322 (Computer Networks Lab) Jul 2018, Jan 2016
• CSE 208 (Data Structures & Algorithms II Lab) Jul 2018
• CSE 108 (Object Oriented Programming Lab) Jul 2018, Jul 2017
• CSE 308 (Software Engineering Lab) Jan 2018, Jan 2017
• CSE 206 (Digital Logic Design Lab) Jan 2018, Jan 2016
• CSE 102 (Structured Programming Language Lab) Jan 2018
• CSE 216 (Database Lab) Jul 2017, Jul 2016
• CSE 402 (Artificial Intelligence Lab) Jul 2016
• CSE 404 (Digital System Design Lab) Jul 2016, Jan 2016
• CSE 214 (Assembly Language Lab) Jul 2016

Supervision & • Aditya Chowdhri and Panos Koutsoukos, Undergrad Intern. Fall 24, Spring 25
Mentorship Topic: Benchmarking Large-Scale Graph Processing Systems.
(Selected) • Yiyun Zheng, Undergraduate Visiting Intern. Fall 2024
Topic: Sieve Page Replacement Policy for Database operations.
• Prisha Shah, High-school RISE Intern. Summer 2024
Topic: Evaluation of Sieve Page Replacement Policy.
• Ronin Bae, High-school Research Intern. Spring, Summer 2023
Topic: Visualizing the ACE bufferpool in action.
• Shuo Zhang & Taishan Chen, Undergrad Research Intern Summer, Fall 2022
Topic: Concurrent Graph/Tree Traversal in Modern Storage Devices.
• Subin (Rachael) Kim, High-school Research Intern. Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
Topic: Visualizing the impact of the Parametric I/O Model for different workloads.
• Zheng Hui, Undergrad Research Intern Fall 2020
Topic: Designing a concurrency-aware graph traversal algorithm.

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Professional • PC Member, SIGMOD Demo 2025
Services • Journal Reviewer
– ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
– Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
– Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA)
– Journal of Big Data
– IEEE BigData
• Shadow PC Member, EuroSys 2024
• Society Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM Special
Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineer (IEEE)
• Member, Sponsorship and Finance Committee, International Conference on Net-
working, Systems and Security (NSysS 2016 – 2018)

Consultancy • Testing and Certification of the Flora Bank Core Banking System (2018-2019)
Projects
• Development of Android Based I-Books & Associated Services for Bangladesh
(Selected)
Technical Education Board and Madrasah Education Board (2016-2019)
• Development, Supply & Installation of Multi-Language Training Software titled
“Vashaguru” for Sheikh Russell Digital Labs in Bangladesh (2017-2018)
• XI Class Admission in Bangladesh (Session: 2016-2017, 2017-2018)

Extra- • Runner Up, BU ECE Table Tennis League - Season 1, 2023

Curricular • Student Volunteer in ICDE 2023, VLDB 2020 conference
Activities • Seminar Coordinator of MiDAS Group, Spring 2020
(Selected)
• Convener of BUET CSE Festival 2019
• Runner Up of Intra University Faculty Bridge Competition, BUET, 2017
• Trainer at Bangladesh Bank IT Training on Java Spring, 2016
• Lead Organizer & Treasurer of BUET CSE Festival 2015
• Champion of the Intra BUET Poker Tournament, BUET CSE Festival 2015
• Branch Coordinator & Lecturer at Sunrise Coaching Center, 2010 – 2014
• Semifinalist of annual under 21 Pool (8 ball) Championship, BDC 2012

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