Associate Research Fellow @ Northeastern University (China)I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Northeastern University (China) in January 2026, advised by Prof. Ge Yu and Prof. Yanfeng Zhang. I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher and Associate Research Fellow at Northeastern University (China).
My research interests include database transaction processing, databases on emerging hardware, blockchain databases, and cloud-native databases.
Education
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Northeastern University (China)School of Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D. in Computer Science and TechnologySep. 2022 - Jan. 2026 -
Northeastern University (China)School of Computer Science and Engineering
M.S. in Computer Science and TechnologySep. 2020 - Jun. 2022 -
Northeastern University (China)School of Computer Science and Engineering
B.S. in Computer Science and TechnologySep. 2016 - Jun. 2020
Experience
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Northeastern University (China)Associate Research Fellow
School of Computer Science and EngineeringJan. 2026 - Present
Honors & Awards
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第41届CCF中国数据库学术会议（CCF NDBC 2024）萨师煊优秀学生论文奖2024
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Liaoning Province Outstanding Master's Thesis Award2022
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Northeastern University Outstanding Master's Thesis Award2022
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CCF-华为胡杨林基金2022年度优秀项目奖2022
Selected Publications (view all )
PAT: Towards Transaction Routing with Page Affinity in Shared-Cache Databases
Zhongqin Tan, Haoyuan Zhang, Yanfeng Zhang#, Zeshun Peng#, Weixing Zhou, Jinyu Zhang, Yang Ren, Guoliang Li, Ge Yu (# corresponding author)
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (CCF-A) 2026
PAT: Towards Transaction Routing with Page Affinity in Shared-Cache Databases
Zhongqin Tan, Haoyuan Zhang, Yanfeng Zhang#, Zeshun Peng#, Weixing Zhou, Jinyu Zhang, Yang Ren, Guoliang Li, Ge Yu (# corresponding author)
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (CCF-A) 2026
面向跨地理区域联盟链的事务处理技术综述
Zeshun Peng, Zhibo Han, Yanfeng Zhang, Xiaohua Li, Minghe Yu, Jili Fan, Ge Yu
软件学报 2026
面向跨地理区域联盟链的事务处理技术综述
Zeshun Peng, Zhibo Han, Yanfeng Zhang, Xiaohua Li, Minghe Yu, Jili Fan, Ge Yu
软件学报 2026
Concurrency Control as a Service
Weixing Zhou, Yanfeng Zhang#, Xinji Zhou, Zhiyou Wang, Zeshun Peng#, Yang Ren, Sihao Li, Huanchen Zhang, Guoliang Li, Ge Yu (# corresponding author)
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) (CCF-A) 2025
Concurrency Control as a Service
Weixing Zhou, Yanfeng Zhang#, Xinji Zhou, Zhiyou Wang, Zeshun Peng#, Yang Ren, Sihao Li, Huanchen Zhang, Guoliang Li, Ge Yu (# corresponding author)
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) (CCF-A) 2025
MassBFT: Fast and Scalable Geo-Distributed Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Consensus
Zeshun Peng, Yanfeng Zhang, Tinghao Feng, Weixing Zhou, Xiaohua Li, Ge Yu
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (CCF-A) 2025
MassBFT: Fast and Scalable Geo-Distributed Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Consensus
Zeshun Peng, Yanfeng Zhang, Tinghao Feng, Weixing Zhou, Xiaohua Li, Ge Yu
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (CCF-A) 2025
HIChain: A Hierarchical IoT Permissioned Blockchain with Edge Cloud Architecture
Tinghao Feng, Zeshun Peng#, Yanfeng Zhang, Xiaohua Li, Xiaomei Dong, Ge Yu (# corresponding author)
International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) (CCF-B) 2024
HIChain: A Hierarchical IoT Permissioned Blockchain with Edge Cloud Architecture
Tinghao Feng, Zeshun Peng#, Yanfeng Zhang, Xiaohua Li, Xiaomei Dong, Ge Yu (# corresponding author)
International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) (CCF-B) 2024
NeuChain: A Fast Permissioned Blockchain System with Deterministic Ordering
Zeshun Peng, Yanfeng Zhang, Qian Xu, Haixu Liu, Yuxiao Gao, Xiaohua Li, Ge Yu
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) (CCF-A) 2022
NeuChain: A Fast Permissioned Blockchain System with Deterministic Ordering
Zeshun Peng, Yanfeng Zhang, Qian Xu, Haixu Liu, Yuxiao Gao, Xiaohua Li, Ge Yu
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) (CCF-A) 2022