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Wei Zhang

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I am Wei Zhang, assistant professor at cse department of university of connecticut. Before that, work at Microsft for more than 3 years after graduating from GWU.

From Sep 2008 to Dec 2014, I was a Phd student in computer science at Beihang University advised by Prof. Mingfa Zhu. Meanwhile, I was also a visitng student at Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences (from June 2010 to July 2012) and at the George Washington University (from Nov 2012 to Oct 2014). I had my second phd life from Jan 2015 to Aug 2018 advised by Prof. Timothy Wood.

I am looking for highly-motivated Ph.D. students who have strong interests in cloud computing, distributed system, operating system, resource disaggregation, network system (NFV, SDN), edge computing, micro services, serverless computing, storage system and machine learning system. You are welcome to drop me an email with your materials such as CV and transcripts and mention my name in your application.

Research Interests:

  • Cloud computing and virtualiztion technologies
  • Distributed system
  • Network and storage system
  • Resource disaggregation
  • ML system
  • Edge computing
  • serverless computing
  • Resource management

Publications

Conferences, Workshops and Posters

  • Wei Zhang, Abhigyan Sharma, Timothy Wood. EdgeBalance: Model-Based Load Balancing for Edge Network Data Planes, HotEdge, Boston, July, 2020.
  • Sameer G Kulkarni, Wei Zhang, Jinho Hwang, Shriram rajagopalan, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Timoty Wood, Mayutan Arumaithurai, Xiaoming Fu. NFVnice: Dynamic Backpressure and Scheduling for NFV Service Chains, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume: 28 , Issue: 2, 639 - 652, 2020.
  • Jiaqi Zheng, Chen Tian, Haipeng Dai, Qiufang Ma, Wei Zhang, Guihai Chen, Gong Zhang. Optimizing NFV Chain Deployment in Software-defined Cellular Core. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Volume: 38, Issue: 2, 248 - 262, 2019.
  • Jiaqi Zheng, Qiufang Ma, Chen Tian, Haipeng Dai, Wei Zhang, Guihai Chen, Gong Zhang. Orchestrating Service Chain Deployment with Plutus in Next Generation Cellular Core, IWQOS, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, June 24-25, 2019.
  • Haris Volos, Kimberly Keeton, Yupu Zhang, Milind Chabbi, Sekwon Lee, Mark Lillibridge, Yuvraj Patel, Wei Zhang. Memory-Oriented Distributed Computing at Rack Scale, Submitted.
  • Haris Volos, Kimberly Keeton, Yupu Zhang, Milind Chabbi, Sekwon Lee, Mark Lillibridge, Yuvraj Patel, Wei Zhang. Software challenges for persistent fabric-attached memory, OSDI Poster, 2018.
  • Haris Volos, Kimberly Keeton, Yupu Zhang, Milind Chabbi, Sekwon Lee, Mark Lillibridge, Yuvraj Patel, Wei Zhang. Memory-Oriented Distributed Computing at Rack Scale, SOCC Poster, 2018.
  • Wei Zhang, Abhigyan Sharma and Timothy Wood. Model-Based Load Balancing for High Performance Network Data Planes, NSDI Poster, 2018.
  • Wei Zhang, Timothy Chong, John Byrne, Milind Chabbi, Harumi Kuno, Michael Lough, Nic McDonald, Sriram Narasimnhan, Bill Scherer, Rob Schreiber, Tuan Tran, Lorenzo Martinico, Cindy Orazco, Khemraj Shukla. How to Co-Design Chickens and Eggs: A Simulation Environment for HPE Exascale Hardware, Tech HP Internal Conference, 2018.
  • Wei Zhang, Abhigyan Sharma, Kaustubh Joshi and Timothy Wood. Hardware-assisted Isolation in a Multi-tenant Function-based Dataplane, SOSR, Los Angeles, CA, 2018.
  • Sameer G Kulkarni, Wei Zhang, Jinho Hwang, Shriram Rajagopalan, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Timothy Wood, Mayutan Arumaithurai and Xiaoming Fu. NFVnice: Dynamic Backpressure and Scheduling for NFV Service Chains, SIGCOMM, 2017.
  • Wei Zhang, Abhigyan Sharma, Kaustubh Joshi and Timothy Wood. Towards an OS for the Network Data Plane with FastPaaS, SOSR Poster, 2017.
  • Wei Zhang, Jinho Hwang, Shriram Rajagopalan, K.K. Ramakrishnan and Timothy Wood. Flurries: Countless Fine-Grained NFs for Flexible Per-Flow Customization, Conext, 2016.
  • Wei Zhang, Guyue Liu, Ali Mohammadkhan , Jinho Hwang, K.K. Ramakrishnan and Timothy Wood. SDNFV: Flexible and Dynamic Software Defined Control of an Application-and Flow-Aware Data Plane. Middleware, 2016.
  • Wei Zhang, Guyue Liu, Wenhui Zhang, Neel Shah, Phil Lopreiato, Gregoire Todeschi, K.K. Ramakrishnan and Timothy Wood. OpenNetVM: A Platform for High Performance Network Service Chains, HotMiddlebox, 2016.
  • Wei Zhang, Timothy Wood and Jinho Hwang. NetKV: Scalable, Self-Managing, Load Balancing as a Network Function. The 13th IEEE Conference on Automonic Computing (ICAC, best paper award), 2016.
  • Wei Zhang, Jinho Hwang, Shriram Rajagopalan, K.K. Ramakrishnan and Timothy Wood. Performance Management Challenges for Virtual Network Functions, 2nd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2016.
  • Wei Zhang and Timothy Wood. AutoONVM: Automatic NFV Management for High Performance and Efficient Resource Usage. SOSP Diversity workshop, 2015.
  • Sundaresan Rajasekaran, Shaohua Duan, Wei Zhang and Timothy Wood. Multi-Cache: Dynamic, Efficient Partitioning for Multi-tier Caches in Consolidated VM Environments. SOSP poster, 2015.
  • Sundaresan Rajasekaran, Shaohua Duan, Wei Zhang and Timothy Wood. Multi-Cache: Dynamic, Efficient Partitioning for Multi-tier Caches in Consolidated VM Environments. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IC2E) 2015.
  • Wei Zhang, Guyue Liu, Timothy Wood , K.K. Ramakrishnan and Jinho Hwang. SDNFV:Towards a Flexible and Dynamic Smart Data plane. NSDI poster, 2015.
  • Ali Mohammadkhan, Sheida Ghapani, Guyue Liu, Wei Zhang, K. K. Ramakrishnan and Timothy Wood. Virtual Function Placement and Traffic Steering in Flexible and Dynamic Software Defined Networks. IEEE LANMAN, 2015.
  • Ali Mohammadkhan, Guyue Liu, Wei Zhang, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Timothy Wood. Protocols to Support Autonomy and Control for NFV in Software Defined Networks. IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization & Software Defined Networks (IEEE NFV-SDN), 2015.
  • Wei Zhang, Timothy Wood, K.K. Ramakrishnan and Jinho Hwang. SmartSwitch: Blurring the Line Between Network Infrastructure \& Cloud Applications. Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), 2014.
  • Wei Zhang, Timothy Wood, H. Howie Huang, Jinho Hwang and K.K. Ramakrishnan. Load Balancing of Heterogeneous Workloads in Memcached Clusters. Usenix International Workshop on Feedback Computing, 2014.
  • Wei Zhang, Sundaresan Rajasekaran, Timothy Wood, Mingfa Zhu. MIMP: Deadline and Interference Aware Scheduling of Hadoop Virtual Machines, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2014.
  • Wei Zhang, Sundaresan Rajasekaran and Timothy Wood. Big Data in the Background: Maximizing Productivity while Minimizing Virtual Machine Interference, Workshop on Architectures and Systems for Big Data (ASBD), co-located with ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2013.
  • Jinho Hwang, Wei Zhang, Ron C. Chiang, Timothy Wood, and H. Howie Huang, UniCache: Hypervisor Managed Data Storage in RAM and Flash, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2014.
  • Wei Zhang, Mingfa Zhu, Yiduo Mei, Limin Xiao, Li Ruan, Tao Gong, Tao Li,Yunwei Gao, Yuzhong Sun. LVMCI:Efficient and Effective VM Live Migration Selection Scheme in Virtualized Data Centers, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2012.
  • Wei Zhang, Mingfa Zhu, Tao Gong, Limin Xiao, Li Ruan, Yiduo Mei, Yuzhong Sun. Performance Degradation-aware Virtual Machine Live Migration in Virtualized Servers. The 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT), 2012.
  • Wei Zhang, Mingfa Zhu, Limin Xiao, Ying Song, Yuzhong Sun. Autonomic Resource Allocation in Virtualized Data Centers, the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA), 2012.

Journals

  • Timothy Wood , K.K. Ramakrishnan and Jinho Hwang, Guyue Liu and Wei Zhang. Towards a Software-Based Network: Integrating Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization. IEEE Network, 2015.
  • Wei Zhang, Sundaresan Rajasekaran, Shaohua Duan, Timothy Wood and Mingfa Zhu. Minimizing Interference and Maximizing Progress for Hadoop Virtual Machines, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 2015.
  • Wei Zhang, Mingfa Zhu, Li Ruan, Limin Xiao, Jiajun Liu, Yiduo Mei, Ying Song, Yuzhong Sun. SLA-Driven Adaptive Resource Allocation for Virtualized Servers, IEICE Trans. On Information & Systems, Special Section on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networking, 2012.
  • Wei Zhang, Ying Song, Li Ruan, Mingfa Zhu, Limin Xiao. Resource Management in Internet-Oriented Data Centers, Journal of Software, 23(2):179-199, 2012.
  • Wei Zhang, Jiajun Liu, Ying Song, Mingfa Zhu, Limin Xiao, Yuzhong Sun, Li Ruan. Dynamic resource allocation based on user experience in virtualized servers, Procedia Engineering, vol 15, 3780-3784.
  • Wei Zhang, Huan Wang, Binbin Yu, Wei Xu, Mingfa Zhu, Limin Xiao, Li Ruan. A Request Distribution Algorithm for Web Server Cluster. Journal of Networks. 6(12):1760-1766, 2011.

Services

  • Reviewers: Transactions on Computer Systems, Computer Networks, Transactions on Parallel & Distributed systems, IEEE Network Magazine, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing…
  • PPoPP 18, 19,20 AE Committee member

Internships

  • Research Intern, HP Labs, System Software Group, July 2017 to June 2018
    • Memory disaggregation with fast network through Gen-Z
  • R&D Intern, VMWare/Nicira NSX Edge team, Feb 2017 to April 2017
    • High performance edge platform for NSX
  • Research Intern, Futurewei Research lab, Sep 2016 to Jan 2017
    • High performance and scalable networking platform
  • Research Intern, AT&T Research lab, Cloud Service Group, June 2016 to Aug 2016
    • Towards an OS for the network data plane with FastPaaS
  • R&D Intern, Baidu Infrastructure Group, Nov 2014 to Jan 2015
    • Improve Openstack Neutron networking performance
  • R&D Intern, Oracle Solaris NIC Group, July 2012 to Nov 2012
    • Learn e1000g, S11 NIC PV driver and test scripts, repeat bugs

Honors and Awards

Student Awards

  • Cisco Computer Security and Information Assurance Scholarship, May 2016
  • Second prize in 2015 GENI Networking Competition, March 2015
  • Beihang national scholarship, Sep 2014
  • Beihang outstanding graduate student, June 2015
  • Full tuition scholarship from Beihang University, Sep 2008 to Dec 2014
  • Full tuition scholarship from Yanshan University, Sep 2006 to June 2008
  • Scholarship from Hebei University of Economic and Business, Sep 2002 to Jan 2006

Travel Awards

  • Conext Student Travel Grant, Dec 2016
  • SOSP Diversity Workshop Travel Grant, Oct 2015
  • NSDI Travel Grant, May 2015
  • Usenix FCW Travel Grant, June 2014
  • CCGRID Travel Grant, May 2014