# Alvin Cheung

### Research Areas

- Database Management Systems (DBMS)
- Programming Systems (PS)

### Research Centers

- EPIC Data lab (EPIC)
- SpeciaLIzed Computing Ecosystems (SLICE)

## Education

- 2015, Ph.D., Computer Science, MIT

## Selected Publications

- X. Chen, L. Gong, A. Cheung, and D. Song, "PlotCoder: Hierarchical Decoding for Synthesizing Visualization Code in Programmatic Context," in Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), Online: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021, pp. 2169--2181.

## Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

- VLDB Early Career Award, 2023
- Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 2022
- ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award (PLDI), 2022
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, 2021
- ACM SIGCHI Best Paper Award, 2021
- Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, 2020
- IEEE CS TCDE Early Career/Rising Star Award, 2020
- VMware Early Career Faculty Award, 2020
- DOE Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE), 2019
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 2019
- Sloan Research Fellow, 2019
- Google Faculty Research Award, 2018
- ACM SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award, 2017
- DOE Early Career Research Award, 2016
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER), 2016