Sen Gao 

Sen Gao (高 森)

Ph.D. Candidate
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
Computing 1, Computing Drive, Singapore 117417
Email: [sen] at [u] dot [nus] dot [edu]

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Biography

Sen Gao is a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. Bingsheng He at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He received his M.S. (2022) and B.S. (2019) from Beijing Institute of Technology.

Research Interests

His research focuses on database systems, graph algorithms, and parallel and distributed computing.

Publications

  1. Yushi Liu, Yikang Ruan, Letian Ruan, Zijun Li, Sen Gao, Weihao Cui, Shixuan Sun, Quan Chen, Shuo Quan, Jie Wu, Bingsheng He, Minyi Guo. FaaSBoard: Efficient Graph Processing with a Disaggregated Architecture on Serverless Services. SIGMOD 2026.

  2. Ziqi Zou, Hao Zhang, Jiaxin Yao, Kangfei Zhao, Zhiwei Zhang, Sen Gao, Jingpeng Hao, Ye Yuan, Guoren Wang. Aquila: A High-Concurrency System for Incremental Graph Query. PVLDB 2026.

  3. Sen Gao, Jianwen Zhao, Hao Zhang, Shixuan Sun, Chen Liang, Gongye Chen, Wenliang Zhang, Bo Ren, Chao Liu, Chenyi Zhang, Quan Chen, Chao Li, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo. GES: High-Performance Graph Processing Engine and Service in Huawei. SIGMOD 2025. [paper][full version]

  4. Sen Gao, Shengliang Lu, Shixuan Sun, Yuchen Li, Bingsheng He. An Efficient Memoization Engine for Concurrent Graph Query Processing. ICDE 2025. [paper][full version][code]

  5. Chiyu Hao, Jixian Su, Shixuan Sun, Hao Zhang, Sen Gao, Jianwen Zhao, Chenyi Zhang, Jieru Zhao, Chen Chen, Minyi Guo. RapidStore: An Efficient Dynamic Graph Storage System for Concurrent Queries. PVLDB 2025. [paper]

  6. Jixian Su, Chiyu Hao, Shixuan Sun, Hao Zhang, Sen Gao, Jiaxin Jiang, Yao Chen, Chenyi Zhang, Bingsheng He, Minyi Guo. Revisiting the Design of In-Memory Dynamic Graph Storage. SIGMOD 2025. [paper]

  7. Hongchao Qin, Sen Gao, Rong-Hua Li, Hongzhi Chen, Ye Yuan, Guoren Wang. Colorful Star Motif Counting: Concepts, Algorithms and Applications. TKDE 2025. [paper]

  8. Yushi Liu, Shixuan Sun, Zijun Li, Quan Chen, Sen Gao, Bingsheng He, Chao Li, Minyi Guo. FaaSGraph. Enabling Scalable, Efficient, and Cost-Effective Graph Processing with Serverless Computing. ASPLOS 2024. [paper]

  9. Sen Gao, Hongchao Qin, Rong-Hua Li, Bingsheng He. Parallel Colorful h-star Core Maintenance in Dynamic Graphs. PVLDB 2023. [paper][full version][code][slides]

  10. Sen Gao, Rong-Hua Li, Hongchao Qin, Hongzhi Chen, Ye Yuan, Guoren Wang. Colorful h-star Core Decomposition. ICDE 2022. [paper][full version][code][slides]

  11. Ronghua Li, Sen Gao, Lu Qin, Guoren Wang, Weihua Yang, Jeffrey Xu Yu. Ordering Heuristics for k-clique Listing. PVLDB 2020. [paper][code][slides]

Awards