Yongwei Wu Professor, Vice Department Head, IEEE Fellow Department of Computer Science & Technology Tsinghua University Address: FIT 3-110, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China, 100084 Email: wuyw(at)tsinghua.edu.cn [ Education and Career | Professional Services | Awards | Publications | Teaching ]

My research interests mainly focus on Runtime Environment, Data Storage/Management, Virtualization, Resource Management, Distributed Scheduling, Performance Analysis, Reliability/Fault Tolerant in the Parallel and Distributed Systems. I also do some research on Machine Learning and Data Mining.

Education

• Bachelor of Computational Mathematics
  Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, 1996
• Master of Computational Mathematics
  Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, 1999
• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics
  Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2002

Career

• Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at Computer Science
  Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 2002-2005
• Associate Professor at Computer Science
  Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 2005-2010
• Professor at Computer Science
  Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 2010-Present

Selected Professional Services

• Serve as the PC Chair/members for more than 20 international conferences including 19th ACM/IEEE CCGrid 2018, 29th ACM/IEEE SC 2016, 22nd ACM/IEEE HPDC 2013.
• Steering Committee Member of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (2015 - 2019)
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing (2014 - 2019)
• Editorial Board member of IEEE Cloud Computing (2015 - 2018)
• Editorial Board member of Journal of Grid Computing (2013 - now)
• Editorial Board member of Journal of Cluster Computing (2013 - now)

Selected Awards

• IEEE Fellow, 2023
• AAIA Fellow, 2023
• Special Scientific and Technological Progress Award, China Computer Federation, 2021
• World Leading Internet Scientific and Technological Achievement, World Internet Conference, 2021
• HUAWEI Global Olympus Award for Data Storage, Huawei, 2021
• 1st Class of Scientific and Technological Progress Award, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, 2020
• Be Recognised as one of the Leading Talents in Science and Technology (S&T) Innovation of the Ten Thousands Plan, the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, 2019
• Special S&T Progress Award, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, 2017
• ACM SIGSOFT 2014 Distinguished Paper Award (FSE 2014)
• 2nd Class of National Technical Invention Award, China, 2015
• 1st Class of Technical Invention Award, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, 2014
• 1st Class of Ministry of Education of China S&T Progress Awards, China, 2007
• 2nd Class of National S&T Progress Awards, China, 2008
• Okawa Foundation Research Grant, Japan, 2010
• CVIC SE Talent Award, China, 2011
• Shenzhen Outstanding Youth Fund, 2011
• Best Paper Award, IMIS'11, Korea, 2011
• Best Paper Award, ScalCom'09, China, 2009

Selected Publications

2023

• NosWalker: A Decoupled Architecture for Out-of-Core Random Walk Processing
  Shuke Wang, MingXing Zhang, Ke Yang , Kang Chen, Shaonan Ma, Jinlei Jiang, Yongwei Wu 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2023)
• Achieving Sub-second Pairwise Query over Evolving Graphs
  Hongtao Chen*, Mingxing Zhang*, Ke Yang*, Kang Chen, Albert Zomaya, Yongwei Wu, Xuehai Qian (* equally contributed) 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2023)
• TEA: A General-Purpose Temporal Graph Random Walk Engine
  Chengying Huan, Shuaiwen Leon Song, Santosh Pandey, Hang Liu, Yongchao Liu, Baptiste Lepers, Charles He, Kang Chen, Jinlei Jiang, Yongwei Wu, The 18th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2023)
  

2022

• A Survey of Storage Systems in the RDMA Era
  Shaonan Ma, Teng Ma, Kang Chen, Yongwei Wu, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
  
• SeqDLM: a Sequencer-based Distributed Lock Manager for Efficient Shared File Access in a Parallel File System
  Qi Chen, Shaonan Ma, Kang Chen, Teng Ma, Xin Liu, Dexun Chen, Yongwei Wu, Zuoning Chen, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC 2022)
  
• T-GCN: A Sampling Based Streaming Graph Neural Network System With Hybrid Architecture
  Chengying Huan, Shuaiwen Leon Song, Yongchao Liu, Heng Zhang, Hang Liu, Charles He, Kang Chen, Jinlei Jiang, Yongwei Wu, 31st International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2022)
  
• libcrpm: Improving the Checkpoint Performance of NVM
  Feng Ren, Kang Chen, Yongwei Wu, 59th Design Automation Conference (DAC 2022)
  
• TeGraph: A Novel General-Purpose TemporalGraph Computing Engine
  Chengying Huan, Hang Liu, Mengxing Liu, Yongchao Liu, Changhua He, Kang Chen, Jinlei Jiang, Yongwei Wu, Shuaiwen Leon Song, 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2022)
  

2021

• Geometric Partitioning: Explore the Boundary of Optimal Erasure Code Repair
  Yingdi Shan, Kang Chen, Tuoyu Gong, Lidong Zhou, Tai Zhou, Yongwei Wu, 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2021).
  
• Random Walks on Huge Graphs at Cache Efficiency
  Ke Yang, Xiaosong Ma, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Kang Chen, Yongwei Wu, 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2021).
  
• ROART: Range-query Optimized Persistent ART
  Shaonan Ma, Kang Chen, Shimin Chen, Mengxing Liu, Jianglang Zhu, Hongbo Kang, Yongwei Wu, 19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2021).
  

2020

• 3-D Partitioning for Large-scale Graph Processing
  Xue Li, Mingxing Zhang, Kang Chen, Yongwei Wu, Xuehai Qian, Weimin Zheng, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2020.
  
• AsymNVM: AnEfficient Framework for Implementing Persistent Data Structures on Asymmetric NVM Architecture
  Teng Ma, Mingxing Zhang, Kang Chen, Zhuo Song, Yongwei Wu, Xuehai Qian, 24th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2020)
  

2019

• X-RDMA: Effective RDMA Middleware in Large-scale Production Environments
  Teng Ma, Tao Ma, Zhuo Song, Jingxuan Li, Huaixin Chang, Kang Chen, Hai Jiang, Yongwei Wu, 21th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2019)
  
• Building Scalable NVM-based B+tree with HTM
  Mengxing Liu, Jiankai Xin, Kang Chen, Yongwei Wu, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2019
  
• RF-RPC: Remote Fetching RPC Paradigm for RDMA-Enabled Network
  Yongwei Wu, Teng Ma, Maomeng Su, Mingxing Zhang, Kang Chen, Zhenyu Guo, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2019, Vol. 30, Issue 7, pp. 1657-1671
  
• CLIP: A Disk I/O Focused Parallel Out-of-core Graph Processing System
  Zhiyuan Ai, Mingxing Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Xuehai Qian, Kang Chen, Weimin Zheng, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2019, Vol. 30, Issue 1, pp. 45-62
  

2018

• ReGraph: A Graph Processing Framework that Alternately Shrinks and Repartitions the Graph
  Xue Li, Mingxing Zhang, Kang Chen, Yongwei Wu, 32nd ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2018)
  
• Low Latency RNN Inference with Cellular Batching
  Pin Gao, Lingfan Yu, Yongwei Wu, Jinyang Li, 13th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2018)
  
• Wonderland: A Novel Abstraction-Based Out-Of-Core Graph Processing System
  Mingxing Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Youwei Zhuo, Xuehai Qian, Chenyin Huan, Kang Chen, 23rd Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2018)
  
• GraphP: Reducing Communication of PIM-based Graph Processing with Efficient Data Partition
  Mingxing Zhang, Youwei Zhuo, Chao Wang, Mingyu Gao, Yongwei Wu, Kang Chen, Christos Kozyrakis, Xuehai Qian, 24th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2018)
  
• DudeTx: Durable Transactions Made Decoupled
  Mengxing Liu, Mingxing Zhang, Kang Chen, Xuehai Qian, Yongwei Wu, Weimin Zheng, Jinglei Ren, ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 2018, Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 7:1-7:28
  

2017

• Principal Component Analysis based Filtering for Scalable, High Precision k-NN Search
  Huan Feng, David Eyers, Steven Mills, Yongwei Wu, Zhiyi Huang , IEEE Transactions on Computers (ToC), 2018, Vol. 67, Issue 2, pp. 252-267
  
• Squeezing out All the Value of Loaded Data: An Out-of-core Graph Processing System with Reduced Disk I/O
  Zhiyuan Ai, Mingxing Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Xuehai Qian, Kang Chen, Weimin Zheng, 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2017)
  
• RFP: When RPC is Faster than Server-Bypass with RDMA
  Maomeng Su, Mingxing Zhang, Kang Chen, Zhenyu Guo, Yongwei Wu, 12th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2017)
  
• High Performance Graph Processing with Locality Oriented Design
  Pin Gao, Mingxing Zhang, Kang Chen, Yongwei Wu, Weimin Zheng, IEEE Transactions on Computers (ToC), 2017, Vol. 66, Issue 7, pp.1261-1267
  
• DudeTM: Building Durable Transactions with Decoupling for Persistent Memory
  Mengxing Liu, Mingxing Zhang, Kang Chen, Xuehai Qian, Yongwei Wu, Weimin Zheng, Jinglei Ren, 22nd Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2017)
  
• HybridFS — A High Performance and Balanced File System Framework with Multiple Distributed File Systems
  Lidong Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Ruini Xue, Tse-Chuan Hsu, Hongji Yang, Yeh-Ching Chung , 2017 IEEE 41st Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2017)
  
• Evolution of Cloud Operating System: From Technology to Ecosystem
  Zuoning Chen，Kang Chen，Jinlei Jiang，Lufei Zhang，Song Wu，Zhengwei Qi，Chunming Hu，Yongwei Wu，Yuzhong Sun，Hong Tang，Aobing Sun，Zilu Kang , Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2017, Vol. 32, Issue 2, pp. 224–241
  

2016

• Exploring the Hidden Dimension in Graph Processing
  Mingxing Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Kang Chen, Xuehai Qian, Xue Li and Weimin Zheng, 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2016)
  
• Measuring and Optimizing Distributed Array Programs
  Mingxing Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Kang Chen, Teng Ma, Weimin Zheng, 42nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2016)
  
• A Lightweight System for Detecting and Tolerating Concurrency Bugs
  Mingxing Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Shan Lu, Shanxiang Qi, Jinglei Ren, and Weimin Zheng, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016, Vol. 42, Issue 10, pp.899-917
  
• PCAF: Scalable, High Precision k-NN Search using Principal Component Analysis based Filtering
  Huan Feng, David Eyers, Steven Mills, Yongwei Wu, Zhiyi Huang, 45th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2016)
  
• MARS: Mobile Application Relaunching Speed-up through Flash-Aware Page Swapping
  Weichao GUO, Kang CHEN, Huan Feng, Yongwei WU, Rui ZHANG, Weimin ZHENG, IEEE Transactions on Computers (ToC), 2016, Vol. 65, Issue 3, pp.916-928
  
• Systematic Data Placement Optimization in Multi-Cloud Storage for Complex Requirements
  Maomeng Su, Lei Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Kang Chen, Keqin Li, IEEE Transactions on Computers (ToC), 2016, Vol. 65, Issue 6, pp.1964-1977
  
• HEADS-JOIN: Efficient Earth Mover’s Distance Similarity Joins on Hadoop
  Jin Huang, Rui Zhang, Rajkumar Buyya, Jian Chen, Yongwei Wu, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2016, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp.1660-1673
  
• Top-k Spatio-Textual Similarity Join
  Huiqi Hu, Guoliang Li, Zhifeng Bao, Jianhua Feng, Yongwei Wu, Zhiguo Gong, Yaoqiang Xu, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2016, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp.551-565
  
• Cloud Performance Modeling with Benchmark Evaluation of Elastic Scaling Strategies
  Kai Hwang, Xiaoyin Bai, Yue Shi, Muyang Li, Wenguang Chen, Yongwei Wu, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2016, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.130-143
  
• Accelerating MapReduce on Commodity Clusters: An SSD-Empowered Approach
  Bo Wang, Jinlei Jiang, Yongwei Wu, Guangwen Yang, Keqin Li, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2016, pp.1-1
  
• PROAR: A Weak Consistency Model for Ceph
  Jiayuan Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Yeh-Ching Chung , IEEE 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPDS 2016)
  

2015

• ThyNVM: Enabling Software-Transparent Crash Consistency in Persistent Memory Systems
  Jinglei Ren, Jishen Zhao, Samira Khan, Jongmoo Choi, Yongwei Wu, and Onur Mutlu, 48th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2015)
  
• Sliding Mode Congestion Control for Data Center Ethernet Networks
  Wanchun Jiang, Fengyuan Ren, Ran Shu, Yongwei Wu, Chuang Lin, IEEE Transactions on Computers (ToC), 2015, Vol. 64, Issue 9, pp.2675-2690
  
• Associative Big Data Sharing in Community Clouds – The MeePo Approach
  Yongwei Wu, Maomeng Su, Weimin Zheng, Kai Hwang, Albert Y.Zomaya, IEEE Cloud Computing, 2015, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp.64-73
  
• What is Wrong With the Transmission? — A Comprehensive Study on Message Passing Related Bugs
  Mingxing Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Kang Chen, Weimin Zheng, 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2015)
  
• Memory-Centric Data Storage for Mobile Systems
  Jinglei REN, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Yongwei WU, Thomas Moscibroda, 2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2015)
  
• Bidding for Highly Available Services with Low Price in Spot Instance Market
  Weichao GUO, Kang CHEN, Yongwei WU, Weimin ZHENG, 24th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2015)
  

2014

• AI: A Lightweight System for Tolerating Concurrency Bugs(ACM SIGSOFT 2014 Distinguished Paper Award)
  Mingxing ZHANG, Yongwei WU, Shan LU, Shangxiang QI, Jinglei REN, Weimin ZHENG, 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2014)
  
• When Paxos Meets Erasure Code: Reduce Network and Storage Cost in State Machine Replication
  Shuai MU, Kang CHEN, Yongwei WU, Weimin ZHENG, 23rd International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2014)
  
• Analysis of Backward Congestion Notification with Delay for Enhanced Ethernet Networks
  Wanchun Jiang, Fengyuan Ren, Yongwei Wu, Chuang Lin, Stojmenovic Ivan, IEEE Transactions on Computers (ToC), Vol. 63, No. 11, 2014
  
• Modeling of Distributed File Systems for Practical Performance Analysis
  Yongwei WU, Feng YE, Kang CHEN, Weimin ZHENG, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2014, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp.156-166
  
• NO2: Speeding Up Parallel Processing of Massive Compute-Intensive Tasks
  Yongwei WU, Weichao GUO, Jinglei REN, Xun ZHAO, Weimin ZHENG, IEEE Transactions on Computers (ToC), 2014, Vol. 63, Issue 10, pp.2487-2499
  
• Quatrain: Accelerating Data Aggregation between Multiple Layers
  Jinglei REN, Yongwei WU, Meiqi ZHU, Weimin ZHENG, IEEE Transactions on Computers (ToC), 2014, Vol. 63, Issue 5, pp.1207-1219
  
• Guarantee Strict Fairness and Utilize Prediction Better in Parallel Job Scheduling
  Yulai YUAN, Yongwei WU, Weimin ZHENG, Keqin LI, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2014, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp.971-981
  
• Liquid: A Scalable Deduplication File System for Virtual Machine Images
  Xun ZHAO, Yang ZHANG, Yongwei WU, Kang CHEN, Jinlei JIANG, Keqin LI, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2014, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp.1257-1266
  

2013

• Response Time based Optimal Web Service Selection
  Waseem Ahmed, Yongwei WU, Weimin ZHENG, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2013, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp.551-561
  
• Attribute-Aware Data Aggregation Using Potential-Based Dynamic Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Fengyuan REN, Jiao ZHANG, Yongwei WU, Tao HE, Canfeng CHEN, Chuang LIN, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2013, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.881-892
  

2012

• Droplet: a Distributed Solution of Data Deduplication
  Yang ZHANG, Yongwei WU, Guangwen YANG, 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2012)
  

2011

• Location-Aware MapReduce in Virtual Cloud
  Yifeng GENG, Shimin CHEN, Yongwei WU, Ryan WU, Guangwen YANG, Weimin ZHENG, 42nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2011)
  
• Task Optimization Based on CPU Pipeline Technique in Multicore System (Best Paper Award)
  Bo WANG, Yongwei WU, Weimin ZHENG, 5th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS 2011)
  
• Automatically Constructing Trusted Cluster Computing Environment
  Yongwei WU, Gang CHEN, Jia LIU, Rui FANG, Xiaomeng HUANG, Guangwen YANG, Weimin ZHENG, Journal of Supercomputing, 2011, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp.51-68
  
• Optimization of sub-query processing in distributed data integration systems
  Gang CHEN, Yongwei WU, Jia LIU, Guangwen YANG, Weimin ZHENG, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2011, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp.1035-1042
  

2010

• PV-EASY: A Strict Fairness Guaranteed and Prediction Enabled Scheduler in Parallel Job Scheduling
  Yulai YUAN, Guangwen YANG, Yongwei WU, Weimin ZHENG, 19th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2010)
  
• Adaptive workload prediction of grid performance in confidence windows
  Yongwei WU, Kai HWANG, Yulai YUAN, Weimin ZHENG, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2010, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp.925-938
  
• Improving grid performance by dynamically deploying applications
  Yongwei WU, Gang CHEN, Jia LIU, Rui FANG, Guangwen YANG, Weimin ZHENG, Concurrency Computation Practice and Experience (CCPE), 2010, Vol. 22, No. 13, pp.1945-1967
  
• An Adaptive Task-level Fault-tolerant Approach to Grid
  Yongwei WU, Yulai YUAN, Guangwen YANG, Weimin ZHENG, Journal of Supercomputing, 2010, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp.97-114
  
• VDB-MR: MapReduce-Based Distributed Data Integration Using Virtual Database
  Yulai YUAN, Yongwei WU, Xiao FENG, Jing LI, Guangwen YANG, Weimin ZHENG, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 2010, Vol. 26, No. 8, pp.1418-1425
  

2009-

• ALR-MIN: A Replacement Strategy to Reduce Overhead during Dynamic Deployment of Applications in Grid (Best Paper Award)
  Gang CHEN, Yongwei WU, Guangwen YANG, Weimin ZHENG, International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2009)
  
• Service-oriented Execution Model Supporting Data Sharing and Adaptive Query Processing
  Yongwei WU, Jia LIU, Gang CHEN, Qiming FANG, Guangwen YANG, Cluster Computing, 2009, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp.127-140
  
• End-to-End Congestion Control for High Speed Networks Based on Population Ecology Models
  Xiaomeng Huang, Fengyuan Ren, Guangwen Yang, Yongwei Wu, W. Zhen, Chuang Lin, 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008)
  
• Load Prediction Using Hybrid Model for Computational Grid
  Yongwei WU, Yulai YUAN, Guangwen YANG, Weimin ZHENG, 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007)
  

Teaching

• Graduate Lesson: Algorithms and Algorithmic Complexity Theory
• Graduate Lesson: High-Performance Computing Experiment
• Graduate Lesson: Key Technologies of Big Data Platform