Conference and Colloquium Presentations

  1. "A Dual-Agent Scheduler for Distributed Deep Learning Jobs on Public Cloud via Reinforcement Learning", Proc. of 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2023), Long Beach, CA, USA, August 2023.

  2. "A Data Flow Framework with High Throughput and Low Latency for Permissioned Blockchains", Proc. of 43rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2023), Hong Kong, China, July 2023.

  3. "AGAIN: Adversarial Training with Attribution Span Enlargement and Hybrid Feature Fusion", Proc. of The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023), Vancouver, Canada, June 2023.

  4. "Optimizing Communication in Deep Reinforcement Learning with XingTian", Proc. of the International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2022), Québec City, Québec, Canada, November 2022.

  5. "Fast and Fine-grained Autoscaler for Streaming Jobs with Reinforcement Learning", 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria, July 2022.

  6. "Stabilizer: Geo-Replication with User-defined Consistency", 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Bologna, Italy, July 2022.

  7. "Dino: A Block Transmission Protocol with Low Bandwidth Consumption and Propagation Latency", Proc. of IEEE Infocom, May 2022.

  8. "Learning Reliable User Representations from Volatile and Sparse Data to Accurately Predict Customer Lifetime Value", ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Virtual, August 2021.

  9. "Neighborhood Cognition Consistent Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning", Proc. of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), New York, USA, February 2020.

  10. "Learning Agent Communication under Limited Bandwidth by Message Pruning", Proc. of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), New York, USA, February 2020.

  11. "Modelling the Dynamic Joint Policy of Teammates with Attention Multi-agent DDPG", Proc. of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019), Montreal, Canada, May 2019.

  12. "Topic-specific Retweet Count Ranking for Weibo", Proc. of the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2018), Melbourne, Australia, June 2018.

  13. "Identifying Influential Users’ Professions via the Microblogs They Forward", Proc. of the SocInf Workshop on IJCAI 2017, Melbourne, Australia, August 2017.

  14. "Predicting Restaurant Consumption Level through Social Media Footprints", Proc. of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016), Osaka, Japan, December 2016.

  15. "Improving Users’ Demographic Prediction via the Videos They Talk about", Proc. of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’16), Austin, Texas, November 2016.

  16. "Samsara: Efficient Deterministic Replay in Multiprocessor Environments with Hardware Virtualization Extensions", Proc. of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2016), Denver, Colorado, June 2016.

  17. "Samsara: Efficient Deterministic Replay with Hardware Virtualization Extensions", Proc. of the ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2015), Tokyo, Japan, July 2015.

  18. "Spartan: A Distributed Array Programming Framework with Automatic Tiling", Proc. of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2015), San Jose, California, July 2015.

  19. "LIBRA: Lightweight Data Skew Mitigation in MapReduce", ChinaSys Workshop, Shenzhen, China, November 2014.

  20. "Knowledge Sharing via Social Login: Exploiting Microblogging Service for Warming up Social Question Answering Websites", the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014), Dublin, Ireland, August 2014.

  21. "Building a Scalable Multimedia Search Engine Using Infiniband", USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2014), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2014.

  22. "Improving MapReduce Performance Using Smart Speculative Execution Strategy", ChinaSys Workshop, Suzhou, China, October 2013.

  23. "Automatic Scaling of Internet Applications for Cloud Computing Services", ChinaSys Workshop, Beijing, China, May 2013.

  24. "A Personal Perspective on Cloud Computing", Seminar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Dec 2012.

  25. "Dynamic Resource Allocation Using Virtual Machines for Cloud Computing Environment", ChinaSys Workshop, Wuhan, China, October 2012.

  26. “Understanding the benefit and limitation of cloud computing: what can virtualization buy us", System Research Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Madrid, Spain, Feb 2012.

  27. Twinkle: A Fast Resource Provisioning Mechanism for Internet Services. IEEE Infocom, Shanghai, China, April 2011.

  28. Improving the Performance of Hypervisor-Based Fault Tolerance. The 27th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010), Boston, Massachusetts, April 2010.

  29. "Gone with the cloud: Adaptive Resource Virtualization for Amazon EC2-like Environment", System Research Seminar, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, November 2009.

  30. "Cloud Computing and Virtualization", CCF Young Computer Scientists & Engineers Forum (YOCSEF), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Mar 2009. "云计算与虚拟化", 中国计算机学会青年计算机科技论坛, 清华大学, 2009年3月27日

  31. Understanding Instant Messaging Traffic Characteristics. The 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'07), Toronto, Canada, June 2007.

  32. Delving into Internet Streaming Media Delivery: A Quality and Resource Utilization Perspective. Invited Talk, AT&T Labs -- Research, Feb 2007.

  33. "Understanding Web content delivery performance: Why is the Web still slow and what can we do about it?" Invited Talk, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, October 2005.

  34. "Optimizing Internet Content Delivery Systems -- A View from the Inside". Invited Talk, Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan, May 2005.

  35. Analysis of Multimedia Workloads with Implications for Internet Streaming. The 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'05), Chiba, Japan, May 2005.

  36. An Automated Approach to Software Reliability and Security. Invited Talk, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, June 2003.

  37. "HEALERS: A Toolkit for Enhancing the Robustness and Security of Existing Applications". IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, San Francisco, California, June 2003.

  38. Moving Edge Side Includes to the Real Edge -- the Clients. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, Seattle, Washington, March 2003.

  39. Client-Side Includes: Faster Access to Dynamic Web Content. AT&T Innovation Forum, Middletown, New Jersey, October 2002.
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  40. Optimizing Buffer Management for Reliable Multicast. IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Bethesda, Maryland, June 2002.

  41. ACDN: A Content Delivery Network for Applications. ACM SIGMOD, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2002.

  42. A Randomized Error Recovery Algorithm for Reliable Multicast. IEEE Infocom, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001.

  43. "Providing Efficient, Robust Error Recovery Through Randomization". IEEE International Workshop on Applied Reliable Group Communication, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2001.