I am currently a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the DB4AI group at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) supervised by Professor Lei Chen (ACM Fellow & IEEE Fellow). I am also very fortunate to work with Professor Yanyan Shen and Professor Yingxia Shao during the PhD study. Prior to this, I received my Bachelor’s degree (2017-2021) from the School of Automation Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in machine learning, data management, systems, and their intersections. Currently, my research is centered on optimizing inference serving of large language models (LLMs).

Publications

• Apt-Serve: Adaptive Request Scheduling on Hybrid Cache for Scalable LLM Inference Serving.
  Shihong Gao, Xin Zhang, Yanyan Shen, Lei Chen.
  SIGMOD 2025 (Research Track).
• SIMPLE: Efficient Temporal Graph Neural Network Training at Scale with Dynamic Data Placement.
  Shihong Gao, Yiming Li, Xin Zhang, Yanyan Shen, Yingxia Shao, Lei Chen.
  SIGMOD 2024 (Research Track).
• ETC: Efficient Training of Temporal Graph Neural Networks over Large-scale Dynamic Graphs.
  Shihong Gao, Yiming Li, Yanyan Shen, Yingxia Shao, Lei Chen.
  VLDB 2024 (Research Track).
• Efficient Training of Graph Neural Networks on Large Graphs.
  Yanyan Shen, Lei Chen, Jingzhi Fang, Xin Zhang, Shihong Gao, Hongbo Yin.
  VLDB 2024 (Tutorial Track).
• SpanGNN: Towards Memory-Efficient Graph Neural Networks via Spanning Subgraph Training.
  Xizhi Gu, Hongzheng Li, Shihong Gao, Xinyan Zhang, Lei Chen, Yingxia Shao.
  ECML-PKDD 2024 (Research Track).
• A Discover of Class and Image Level Variance between Different Pruning Methods on Convolutional Neural Networks.
  Shihong Gao.
  IEEE SmartIoT 2020.
• PretiMeth: Precise Prediction Models for DNA Methylation Based on Single Methylation Mark.
  Jianxiong Tang, Jianxiao Zou, Xiaoran Zhang, Mei Fan, Qi Tian, Shuyao Fu, Shihong Gao, Shicai Fan.
  BMC Genomics 2020.

Teaching Experience

• DSAA 5002: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Data Science, Fall 2024, HKUST
  
• DSAA 5020: Foundation of Data Science and Analytics, Fall 2024, HKUST
  
• UFUG 2602: Data Structure and Algorithm Design, Spring 2025, HKUST