Alvin Cheung | EECS at UC Berkeley

Alvin Cheung

Associate Professor

Contact Information

785 Soda Hall

akcheung@cs.berkeley.edu

Links

Personal Homepage

Research Support

Laman Sadaghiani
633 Davis
lsadaghiani@berkeley.edu

Research Areas

Database Management Systems (DBMS)

Programming Systems (PS)

Research Centers

EPIC Data lab (EPIC)

Sky Computing Lab (Sky)

SpeciaLIzed Computing Ecosystems (SLICE)

Teaching Schedule

CS 186. Introduction to Database Systems, MoWe 10:00-11:29, Soda 306

A. Cheung and S. A. Seshia, "LLM-Based Code Translation Needs Formal Compositional Reasoning," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2025-174, Oct. 2025.
X. Chen, L. Gong, A. Cheung, and D. Song, "PlotCoder: Hierarchical Decoding for Synthesizing Visualization Code in Programmatic Context," in Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), Online: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021, pp. 2169--2181.

ACSIC Rock Star Award, 2025
AITO Dahl Nygaard Junior Prize, 2024
VLDB Early Career Award, 2023
Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 2022
ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award (PLDI), 2022
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, 2021
ACM SIGCHI Best Paper Award, 2021
Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, 2020
IEEE CS TCDE Early Career/Rising Star Award, 2020
VMware Early Career Faculty Award, 2020
DOE Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE), 2019
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 2019
Sloan Research Fellow, 2019
Google Faculty Research Award, 2018
ACM SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award, 2017
DOE Early Career Research Award, 2016
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER), 2016