Stanford University PhD student, Tony Wang, discusses his research focus on time series data management. Topics include challenges in academia and industry, academic lab structure, decision to move from hardware to data research, data modeling in time series, issues and potential solutions for parquet format, and the role of external indices in parquet files.

Tony Wang, an academic researcher at Stanford University, discusses his research in data systems and databases, the connection between academia and industry, and shares insights on data processing systems and future trends with the hosts.