Sep 25
Kicking off my PhD grind. (Update: Why did I want to do it?)
My name is Mengze Tang and I'm a first-year PhD student of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, working with Prof. Aws Albarghouthi. I have also had the pleasure of working with Prof. Shivaram Venkataraman on vector indexing. I interned at Microsoft Research Asia in the summer of 2025.
cv · github · scholar · mengze [at] cs.wisc.edu
News
Apr 25
Joining MSRA as a research intern in the Systems Research Group.
Mar 25
Boston is shaking. Quake will appear in OSDI 2025!
Publications
Nature 26
A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities
Center for AI Safety, Scale AI & HLE Contributors Consortium
OSDI 25
Quake: Adaptive Indexing for Vector Search
Jason Mohoney, Devesh Sarda, Mengze Tang, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Anil Pacaci, Ihab F. Ilyas, Theodoros Rekatsinas, Shivaram Venkataraman
biorxiv 25
Evan Gorstein, Mengze Tang, Hailey Bruzzone, Claudia Solís-Lemus
Miscellaneous
Sports
I enjoy watching and playing football during my free time. Messi is the GOAT.
I also like watching or playing many other sports, including basketball, snooker, and F1. You name it—except for the ones I do not think are sports.
Musics
I like listening to cantonese pop music, especially Eason Chan. I'm also learning to play the guitar right now.
Reference
This page's layout is stolen from Prof. Aws Albarghouthi's page.
"I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And, I was really... I was alive."
– Walter White