Conference Publications
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PRISM: Navigating Cost–Accuracy Trade-offs for NL2SQL
Gaurav Tarlok Kakkar, Y. Chung, Fatma Özcan, Stephen Mussmann, and Joy Arulraj
SIGMOD 2026 -
Aero: Adaptive Query Processing of ML Queries
Gaurav Tarlok Kakkar, Jiashen Cao, Aubhro Sengupta, Joy Arulraj, and Hyesoon Kim
SIGMOD 2025 -
SketchQL: Video Moment Querying with a Visual Query Interface
Renzhi Wu, Pramod Chunduri, Ali Payani, Xu Chu, Joy Arulraj, and Kexin Rong
SIGMOD 2024 -
A Framework For Inferring Properties of User-Defined Functions
Xinyu Liu, Joy Arulraj, and Alessandro Orso
ICSE 2024 -
GPU Database Systems Characterization and Optimization
Jiashen Cao, Rathijit Sen, Matteo Interlandi, Joy Arulraj, and Hyesoon Kim
VLDB 2023 -
SEIDEN: Revisiting Query Processing in Video Database Systems
Jaeho Bang, Gaurav Tarlok Kakkar, Pramod Chunduri, Subrata Mitra, and Joy Arulraj
VLDB 2023 -
RAPIDS: Reconciling Availability, Accuracy, and Performance in Managing Geo-Distributed Scientific Data
Lipeng Wan, Jieyang Chen, Xin Liang, Ana Gainaru, Qian Gong, Qing Liu, Ben Whitney, Joy Arulraj, Zhengchun Liu, Ian T. Foster, and Scott Klasky
HPDC 2023 -
EVA: A Symbolic Approach to Accelerating Exploratory Video Analytics with Materialized Views
Zhuangdi Xu, Gaurav Tarlok Kakkar, Joy Arulraj, and Umakishore Ramachandran
SIGMOD 2022 -
FiGO: Fine-Grained Query Optimization in Video Analytics
Jiashen Cao, Karan Sarkar, Ramyad Hadidi, Joy Arulraj, and Hyesoon Kim
SIGMOD 2022 -
Zeus: Efficiently Localizing Actions in Videos using Reinforcement Learning
Pramod Chunduri, Jaeho Bang, Yao Lu, and Joy Arulraj
SIGMOD 2022 -
SPES: A Symbolic Approach to Proving Query Equivalence Under Bag Semantics
Qi Zhou, Joy Arulraj, Shamkant B. Navathe, William Harris, and Jinpeng Wu
ICDE 2022 -
Automatic Detection of Performance Bugs in Database Systems using Equivalent Queries
Xinyu Liu, Qi Zhou, Joy Arulraj, and Alessandro Orso
ICSE 2022 -
SIA: Optimizing Queries using Learned Predicates
Qi Zhou, Joy Arulraj, Shamkant B. Navathe, William Harris, and Jinpeng Wu
SIGMOD 2021 -
Spitfire: A Three-Tier Buffer Manager for Volatile and Non-Volatile Memory
Xinjing Zhou, Joy Arulraj, Andrew Pavlo, and David E. Cohen
SIGMOD 2021 -
ODIN: Automated Drift Detection and Recovery in Video Analytics
Abhijit Suprem, Joy Arulraj, Calton Pu, and João Eduardo Ferreira
VLDB 2020 -
SQLCheck: Automated Detection and Diagnosis of SQL Anti-Patterns
Prashanth Dintyala, Arpit Narechania, and Joy Arulraj
SIGMOD 2020 -
APOLLO: Automatic Detection and Diagnosis of Performance Regressions in Database Systems
Jinho Jung, Hong Hu, Joy Arulraj, Taesoo Kim, and Woon-Hak Kang
VLDB 2019 -
Automated Verification of Query Equivalence Using Satisfiability Modulo Theories
Qi Zhou, Joy Arulraj, Shamkant B. Navathe, William Harris, and Dong Xu
VLDB 2019 -
BzTree: A High-Performance Latch-free Range Index for Non-Volatile Memory
Joy Arulraj, Justin J. Levandoski, Umar Farooq Minhas, and Per-Åke Larson
VLDB 2018
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SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data
Kai Ren, Qing Zheng, Joy Arulraj, and Garth Gibson
VLDB 2017
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Write-Behind Logging
Joy Arulraj, Matthew Perron, and Andrew Pavlo
VLDB 2016
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An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control
Yingjun Wu, Joy Arulraj, Jiexi Lin, Ran Xian, and Andrew Pavlo
VLDB 2017
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Self-Driving Database Management Systems
Andrew Pavlo, Gustavo Angulo, Joy Arulraj, Haibin Lin, Jiexi Lin, Lin Ma, Prashanth Menon, Todd C. Mowry, Matthew Perron, Ian Quah, Siddharth Santurkar, Anthony Tomasic, Skye Toor, Dana Van Aken, Ziqi Wang, Yingjun Wu, Ran Xian, and Tieying Zhang
CIDR 2017
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Bridging the Archipelago between Row-Stores and Column-Stores for Hybrid Workloads
Joy Arulraj, Andrew Pavlo, and Prashanth Menon
SIGMOD 2016
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Let's Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems
Joy Arulraj, Andrew Pavlo, and Subramanya Dulloor
SIGMOD 2015
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Leveraging the Short-Term Memory of Hardware to Diagnose Production-Run Software Failures
Joy Arulraj, Guoliang Jin, and Shan Lu
ASPLOS 2014
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Production-Run Software Failure Diagnosis via Hardware Performance Counters
Joy Arulraj, Po-Chun Chang, Guoliang Jin, and Shan Lu
ASPLOS 2013
[paper] [slides]
Preprints
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Halo: Domain-Aware Query Optimization for Long-Context Question Answering
Pramod Chunduri, Francisco Romero, Ali Payani, Kexin Rong, and Joy Arulraj
CoRR abs/2603.17668, 2026 -
TRACER: Efficient Object Re-Identification in Networked Cameras through Adaptive Query Processing
Pramod Chunduri, Yao Lu, and Joy Arulraj
CoRR abs/2507.09448, 2025 -
Towards a Periodic Table of Computer System Design Principles
Joy Arulraj
CoRR abs/2507.22098, 2025
Workshop Publications
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Buffer Management for Out-of-GPU LLM Execution
Jiashen Cao, Joy Arulraj, and Hyesoon Kim
DEEM 2025 (colocated with SIGMOD 2025) -
EVA: An End-to-End Exploratory Video Analytics System
Gaurav Tarlok Kakkar, Jiashen Cao, Pramod Chunduri, Zhuangdi Xu, Suryatej Reddy Vyalla, Prashanth Dintyala, Anirudh Prabakaran, Jaeho Bang, Aubhro Sengupta, Kaushik Ravichandran, Ishwarya Sivakumar, Aryan Rajoria, Ashmita Raju, Tushar Aggarwal, Abdullah Shah, Sanjana Garg, Shashank Suman, Myna Prasanna Kalluraya, Subrata Mitra, Ali Payani, Yao Lu, Umakishore Ramachandran, and Joy Arulraj
DEEM 2023 (colocated with SIGMOD 2023) -
Larger-than-Memory Data Management on Modern Storage Hardware for In-Memory OLTP Database Systems
Lin Ma, Joy Arulraj, Sam Zhao, Andrew Pavlo, Subramanya R. Dulloor, Michael J. Giardino, Jeff Parkhurst, Jason L. Gardner, Kshitij A. Doshi, and Stanley B. Zdonik
DaMoN 2016 (colocated with SIGMOD 2016)
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A Prolegomenon on OLTP Database Systems for Non-Volatile Memory
Justin A. DeBrabant, Joy Arulraj, Andrew Pavlo, Michael Stonebraker, Stanley B. Zdonik, and Subramanya Dulloor
ADMS 2014 (colocated with VLDB 2014)
[paper] [code] [project]
Demos
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SketchQL Demonstration: Zero-shot Video Moment Querying with Sketches
Renzhi Wu, Pramod Chunduri, Dristi J. Shah, Ashmitha Julius Aravind, Ali Payani, Xu Chu, Joy Arulraj, and Kexin Rong
VLDB 2024 -
Interactive Demonstration of EVA
Gaurav Tarlok Kakkar, Aryan Rajoria, Myna Prasanna Kalluraya, Ashmita Raju, Jiashen Cao, Kexin Rong, and Joy Arulraj
VLDB 2023 -
Interactive Demonstration of SQLCHECK
Arthita Ghosh, Arpit Narechania, Visweswara Sai Prashanth Dintyala, Su Timurturkan, Joy Arulraj, and Deven Bansod
VLDB 2021
Invited Articles
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eCloud: A Vision for the Evolution of the Edge-Cloud Continuum
Joy Arulraj, Abhijit Chatterjee, Alexandros Daglis, Ashutosh Dhekne, and Umakishore Ramachandran
IEEE Computer, Volume: 54, Issue: 5, May 2021 -
Research for Practice: Distributed Consensus and Implications of NVM on Database Management Systems
Peter Bailis, Camille Fournier, Joy Arulraj, and Andrew Pavlo
ACM Queue, July 2016
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Thesis
- The Design and Implementation of a Non-Volatile Memory Database Management System
Joy Arulraj
[thesis] [book]