ZHANG, Mingxing Assistant Professor @ Tsinghua University zhang_mingxing(at)mail.tsinghua.edu.cn [ Experience | Honors | Publications ]

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Tsinghua University.
My research interests lie primarily in designing novel data processing systems that provide/implement just-right abstraction layers in novel ways.

Experience

• 2017 ~ 2022 Chief Algorithm Expert, Head of Sangfor Innovation Institute @ Sangfor Innovation Institute
• 2017 Tsinghua University Computer Science & Technology Ph.D.
• 2008 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Computer Science & Technology B.S.

Honors

• SIG member of the openGauss community
• VirusTotal += Sangfor Engine Zero
• IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Award for Excellence (Outstanding Ph.D Thesis) 2018.
• 2018 ACM China Council SIGOPS Chapter Doctoral Dissertation Award
• Supported by Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61802219).
• Supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2018M630162).

Selected Publications

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)
  27th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2023)

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

• Research on Efficient Large-scale Graph Data Processing Technologies
  Mingxing Zhang
  Thesis and published by Tsinghua University Press
• GraphQ: Scalable PIM-Based Graph Processing
  Youwei Zhuo, Chao Wang, Mingxing Zhang, Rui Wang, Dimin Niu, Yanzhi Wang, Xuehai Qian
  52nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2019)
• KnightKing: A Fast Distributed Graph Random Walk Engine
  Ke Yang, MingXing Zhang, Kang Chen, Xiaosong Ma, Yang Bai, Yong Jiang
  27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 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 (* equally contributed)
  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 (* equally contributed),
  32nd ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 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 (* equally contributed),
  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, (* equally contributed)
  ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 2018, Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 7:1-7:28
  

2017

• 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 (* co-first author) ,
  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 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 (* equally contributed),
  22nd Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2017)
  

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
  

2015

• 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)
  

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)