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‘‘Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.’’  —  Vincent van Gogh

  • 03/2024: Lotto accepted to USENIX Security ’24.

  • 02/2024: DTC-SpMM accepted to ACM ASPLOS ’24.

  • 01/2024: Awarded the RGC's Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2023/24 for our project on serverless inference. Thanks RGC!

  • 11/2023: Minchen will be joining the School of Data Science, CUHK-Shenzhen, as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations!

  • 10/2023: Golgi selected as the Best Paper for ACM SoCC ’23. Congratulations to Suyi!

  • 09/2023: Dordis accepted to ACM EuroSys ’24.

  • 09/2023: Golgi accepted to ACM SoCC ’23.

  • 08/2023: Congratulations to Minchen for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

  • 04/2023: FGD accepted to USENIX ATC ’23.

  • 04/2023: DeAR accepted to IEEE ICDCS ’23.

  • 03/2023: Yunchuan successfully defended his MPhil thesis.

  • 01/2023: Work on sparse GPU Kernels for accelerated GNN training accepted to IEEE IPDPS ’23.

  • 01/2023: APF accepted to IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems as an extended version of ICDCS ’21.

  • 01/2023: LB-Chain accepted to IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems.

  • 12/2022: CoChain accepted to IEEE INFOCOM ’23.

  • 12/2022: GIFT accepted to JSAC, special issue on Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning over Networks.

  • 11/2022: Congratulations to Qizhen for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

  • 09/2022: Three papers accepted to ACM SoCC ’22.

  • 09/2022: DP-KFAC accepted to IEEE Trans. Cloud Computing.

  • 07/2022: Congratulations to Huangshi for successfully defending his PhD thesis! He will continue his research in the University of Toronto as a Postdoctoral Fellow, working with Prof. Ding Yuan.

  • 07/2022: Pheromone accepted to USENIX NSDI ’23.

  • 07/2022: Congratulations to Mingzhe for successfully defending his PhD thesis! He will join A*STAR as a Research Scientist.

  • 07/2022: Congratulations to Da for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Among many competitive offers received, he will join Anthropic as a Systems Researcher.

  • 05/2022: A survey paper on Federated Learning systems has been accepted to IEEE Trans. Big Data.

  • 04/2022: Jenga has been accepted to IEEE ICDCS 2022.

  • 02/2022: Named as the Distinguished TPC Member of IEEE INFOCOM 2022.

  • 01/2022: Received the WeBank Scholar Fellowship. Thanks WeBank!

  • 12/2021: Chen Chen (PhD, 2018) will join the John Hopcroft Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as a tenure-track Associate Professor in 2022. Congratulations!

  • 11/2021: Congratulations to Da for landing a job offer of DeepSpeed at Microsoft Research, Bellevue, WA, USA!

  • 10/2021: Congratulations to Qizhen for receiving an Alibaba Star (阿里星) offer!

  • 08/2021: Morphling, Citadel, and George have been accepted to ACM SoCC ’21.

  • 07/2021: Gillis was selected as the Best Paper Runner Up of IEEE ICDCS 2021 (3 out of 489 submissions).

  • 07/2021: Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure!

  • 06/2021: Luping has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats to Dr. Wang!

  • 06/2021: Machine learning workload analysis in Alibaba GPU clusters has been accepted to USENIX NSDI ’22.

  • 04/2021: CrystalPerf has been accepted to USENIX ATC ’21.

  • 03/2021: Chengliang has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats to Dr. Zhang!

  • 03/2021: Gillis and APF have been accepted to IEEE ICDCS ’21.

  • 11/2020: Congratulations to Luping for landing an Alibaba Star (阿里星) offer!

  • 10/2020: A survey paper on communication optimizations in distributed deep learning has been accepted in IEEE Network Magazine.

  • 08/2020: LB-BSP has been accepted to ACM SoCC ’20

  • 06/2020: The extended version of MArk has been accepted to appear in IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput.

  • 06/2020: Metis has been accepted to SC20.

  • 04/2020: BatchCrypt has been accepted to USENIX ATC ’20.

  • 04/2020: Named as a Distinguished TPC Member of IEEE INFOCOM ’20.

  • 04/2020: Invited to serve as an AWS Educate Cloud Ambassador. Thanks AWS Educate!

  • 12/2019: Two papers have been accepted to appear in IEEE IPDPS ’20.

  • 12/2019: RepBun has been accepted to IEEE INFOCOM ’20.

  • 11/2019: One paper has been accepted to ACM PPoPP ’20.

  • 11/2019: We have released a cluster trace generator that synthesizes DAG jobs based on the Alibaba cluster traces. Refer to our SoCC ’19 paper for details.

  • 10/2019: Yinghao joined Alibaba Cloud Container Platform as a Senior Software Engineer (P7) under the Alibaba Star (阿里星) program. Congratulations!

  • 09/2019: The extended version of LRC has been accepted to appear in IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput.

  • 09/2019: Trace analysis on Alibaba's DAG workloads has been accepted to ACM SoCC ’19.

  • 08/2019: Yinghao has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations to Dr. Yu!

  • 07/2019: Yunchuan was selected as the recipient of the Huawei PhD Fellowship. Congratulations!

  • 07/2019: The extended version of SP-Cache has been accepted to appear in IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst.

  • 06/2019: One paper has been accepted to ACM APSys ’19.

  • 04/2019: MArk has been accepted to USENIX ATC ’19.

  • 03/2019: LACS and CMFL have been accepted to IEEE ICDCS ’19.

  • 02/2019: Awarded as one of the Distinguished TPC members of IEEE INFOCOM ’19.

  • 11/2018: R2SP has been accepted to IEEE INFOCOM ’19.

  • 08/2018: Continuum has been accepted to ACM SoCC ’18 (also reported by The Morning Paper).

  • 07/2018: Chen has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations to Dr. Chen!

  • 07/2018: Minchen was selected as the recipient of the newly installed Huawei PhD Fellowship. Congratulations!

  • 06/2018: SP-Cache has been accepted by IEEE/ACM SC18.

  • 03/2018: SpecSync, OpuS, and NC-DRF have been accepted by IEEE ICDCS 2018.

  • 01/2018: Awarded as one of the 100 Distinguished TPC members of IEEE INFOCOM 2018.

  • 11/2017: Utopia and PAF get accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2018.

  • 05/2017: Chen and Yinghao received the INFOCOM’17 Best-In-Session Presentation Award for their talks in the two technical sessions, ‘‘Cloud Computing I’’ and ‘‘Big Data Processing,’’ respectively.

  • 03/2017: Qizhen and Huangshi received the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Award (2017–20). Congratulations!

  • 03/2017: ‘‘Speculative Slot Reservation’’ has been accepted by IEEE ICDCS 2017 (research track).

  • 12/2016: Chengliang received the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Award (2016–19). Congratulations!

  • 11/2016: Coflex, CFQ and LRC have been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2017.

  • 07/2016: HUG+ has been accepted by IEEE ICNP 2016.

  • 06/2016: TSF has been accepted by IEEE/ACM SC16.

  • 02/2016: Our work on multi-resource fairness with placement constraints has been accepted by ACM SIGMETRICS’16 poster session.

  • 09/2015: I joined the CSE department at HKUST as an Assistant Professor.