Chunwei Liu is a Postdoctoral Associate working with Michael Cafarella. He got his Ph.D. from Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he worked in ChiData group advised by Aaron Elmore. His research primarily focuses on databases and compound AI systems. He is dedicated to integrating AI-powered analytics with database-style optimization and developing privacy-preserving workload generation techniques for benchmarking cloud database systems. Additionally, he is involved in creating novel data compression methods, implementing adaptive compression selection in both resource-constrained databases and machine learning systems, and conducting high-dimensional data analysis for time series.