Hello!

I'm William, a 1st year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Chicago.

I work on systems and machine learning, especially around caching and storage.

I'm fortunate to be advised by Prof. Haryadi S. Gunawi and Prof. Juncheng Yang.

Feel free to reach out via email — always happy to chat!

Publications

• Ray A. Sinurat, William Nixon, Philip Carns, Huihuo Zheng, Sandeep Madireddy, Sam Foreman, Troy Arcomano, Robert Ross, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Hariharan Devarajan. “SysX: Taming I/O Optimization for Deep Learning at Scale.” In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2026.
• Haocheng Xia, William Nixon, Bintang Dwi Marthen, Pranav Bhandari, Juncheng Yang. “Learning-Augmented Heuristics: Simple yet Smart, Robust and Interpretable Cache Eviction.” In Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2026.
• Samuel Cahyawijaya, Holy Lovenia, Joel R. A. Moniz, ... William Nixon, ... Peerat Limkonchotiwat. “Crowdsource, Crawl, or Generate? Creating SEA-VL, a Multicultural Vision-Language Dataset for Southeast Asia.” In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025. Link
• Holy Lovenia, Rahmad Mahendra, Salsabil M. Akbar, ... William Nixon, ... Samuel Cahyawijaya. “SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages.” In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024. Link

Miscellaneous

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