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Supawit Chockshowwat

Visiting Faculty Researcher
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Supawit Chockshowwat is a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google, focusing on database efficiency research at scale and in emergent areas. His research interests revolve around data systems at the intersection of database management systems, data mining, probabilistic algorithms, machine learning, and distributed systems.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2025 and his B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020, under the unwavering support of Prof. Yongjoo Park and the CreateLab.

  • S. Chockchowwat, W. Liu, and Y. Park, "AirIndex: Versatile Index Tuning Through Data and Storage," Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (PACMMOD), vol. 1, no. 3, art. 226, pp. 1–26, Nov. 2023. doi: 10.1145/3617308.
  • Z. Li, S. Chockchowwat, R. Sahu, A. Sheth, and Y. Park, "Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational Notebooks," Proceedings of the Very Large Data Base (VLDB) Endowment, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 970–985, Dec. 2024. doi: 10.14778/3717755.3717759.
  • H. Fang, S. Chockchowwat, H. Sundaram, and Y. Park, "Enhancing Computational Notebooks with Code+Data Space Versioning," in Proc. 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), Yokohama, Japan, 2025.
  • N. Sheoran, S. Chockchowwat, A. Chheda, S. Wang, R. Verma, Y. Park. "A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation," Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (PACMMOD), vol.1, no. 2, art. 124, pp. 1–28, Jun. 2023. doi: 10.1145/3589269.
  • C. C. Tutum, S. Chockchowwat, E. Vouga, and R. Miikkulainen, "Functional generative design: an evolutionary approach to 3D-printing," in Proc. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’18), Kyoto, Japan, 2018, pp. 1379–1386. doi: 10.1145/3205455.3205635.
  • Database Efficiency and Tuning
  • Data Systems for Modern AI Workflows
  • Version Control and Data Provenance
  • Interactive Data Analytics
  • 2020 – 2025: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2016 – 2020: Bachelor of Science with Turing Scholars Honors in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin