About

Hello! I’m Lujing. I currently work as a software engineer at Plaid. I am interested in distributed systems, programming languages, robotics, and reinforcement learning.

Work Experience

Software Engineer at Plaid
August 2021 - Present

Research

Learned Encodings in SageDB. Lujing Cen. Master’s thesis. Received the Charles & Jennifer Johnson Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making MEng Thesis Award. (pdf)

LEA: A Learned Encoding Advisor for Column Stores. Lujing Cen, Andreas Kipf, Ryan Marcus, Tim Kraska. Appeared in aiDM @ SIGMOD 2021. (pdf)

Learned Garbage Collection. Lujing Cen, Ryan Marcus, Hongzi Mao, Justin Gottschlich, Mohammad Alizadeh, Tim Kraska. Appeared in MAPL @ PLDI 2020. (pdf)

Block Affordances for GraphQL In App Inventor. Lujing Cen, Evan Patton. Appeared in CTE 2019. (pdf)

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2020 - 2021

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Computer Science and Computer Engineering
2016 - 2020