I am a final-year Ph.D. student at School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University (ECNU). I am co-advised by Prof. Aoying Zhou and Prof. Chengcheng Yang. Currently, I am a Research intern on the TiDB Optimizer Team at PingCAP. Previously, I worked as a Data Dev intern in Taobao and a Research intern in Alibaba Cloud. I also visited the Database Research Group at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and collaborated with Prof. Jianliang Xu. My current research interests focus on Query Optimization (QO) in relational database systems.

[PVLDB’26] Vodka: Rethink Benchmarking Philosophy in HTAP Systems
Z Hu, S Weng, Z Pan, R Zhang, C Yang, P Cai, X Zhou, Q Xu, C Yang.
[ICDE’25] Hyper: Hybrid Physical Design Advisor with Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Z Pan, Y Zhang, C Yang, A Ghazal, R Zhang, H Hu, X Wu, Y Dong, X Zhou.
[ICDE’25] Rabbit: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Enables Better Automatic Database Knob Tuning
W Sun#, Z Pan#, Z Hu, Y Liu, C Yang, R Zhang, X Zhou.
[ICDE’25] EasyTime: Time Series Forecasting Made Easy
X Qiu#, X Li#, R Pang#, Z Pan#, X Wu#, L Yang#, J Hu, Y Shu, X Lu, C Yang, C Guo, A Zhou, C S. Jensen, B Yang.
[Pattern Recognition’25] SeeD: Online Similarity-Preserving Pattern Discovery for Streaming Trajectories
J Fang, J Li, C Feng, Z Pan, J Xu, P Zhao.
[DASFAA’25] CF-TS: A General Coarse-to-Fine Method for Trajectory Simplification
J Li, J Fang, Z Pan, P Chao, J Xu, P Zhao.
[ECML’24] LATuner: an LLM-enhanced database tuning system based on adaptive surrogate model
C Fan#, Z Pan#, W Sun, C Yang, WN Chen.
[IPM’24] HPS: A novel heuristic hierarchical pruning strategy for dynamic top-k trajectory similarity query
T Gu, J Fang, Z Pan, Y Wu, Y Ban, P Chao, L Zhao.
[PVLDB’23] MagicScaler: Uncertainty-aware, Predictive Autoscaling
Z Pan, Y Wang, Y Zhang, SB Yang, Y Cheng, P Chen, C Guo, Q Wen, X Tian, Y Dou, Z Zhou, C Yang, A Zhou, B Yang.
[KAIS’23] Garden: A Real-time Processing Framework for Continuous Top-k Trajectory Similarity Search
Z Pan, J Fang, P Chao, W Chen, J Xu, L Zhao.
[CIKM’22] Aries: Accurate Metric-based Representation Learning for Fast Top-k Trajectory Similarity Query
C Feng, Z Pan, J Fang, J Xu, P Zhao, L Zhao.
[ICSOC’22] Misty: Microservice-based Streaming Trajectory Similarity Search
J Tao, Z Pan, J Fang, P Chao, P Zhao, J Xu.
[GeoInformatica’21] Cost-effective and adaptive clustering algorithm for stream processing on cloud system
Y Xia, J Fang, P Chao, Z Pan, J S. Shang.
[WISE’20] TraSP: A General Framework for Online Trajectory Similarity Processing
Z Pan, P Chao, J Fang, W Chen, Z Li, A Liu.