Mengze Tang

About Me

I am an incoming/returning Computer Sciences Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I recently graduated from UW-Madison with double major in computer sciences and mathematics. My research interests lie at the intersection of computer systems and machine learning. I feel proud and blessed to have worked with Prof. Shivaram Venkataraman and Prof. Juncheng Yang. Feel free to drop a note for anything you’d like to talk!

News

[Apr. 2025] Joining MSRA as a research intern in the Systems Research Group in Beijing.
[Mar. 2025] Boston is shaking. Quake will appear in OSDI 2025!
[Dec. 2024] I graduated from UW-Madison for the first time.
[Apr. 2024] I’m awarded the Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship!

Publications

Quake: Adaptive Indexing for Vector Search

Jason Mohoney, Devesh Sarda, Mengze Tang, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Anil Pacaci, Ihab F. Ilyas, Theodoros Rekatsinas, Shivaram Venkataraman

19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2025)

Code To appear soon

Miscellanies

I watch and play football (soccer if you insist) and I’m a fan of the GOAT Lionel Messi.
I love reading and collecting quotations. Here’s one of my recent favorites: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” - Samuel Beckett