• Yongwei WU

• Professor，Vice Head

• Department of Computer Science and Technology

• Joined Department: 2002

• Email: wuyw @ tsinghua.edu.cn

• URL: http://madsys.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/~yongweiwu/

• Phone: +86-10-62796341

• Fax: +86-10-62771138

Education background

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.

Social service

Serve as the PC members for more then 20 international conference including 29th IEEE/ACM SC 2016, 22nd IEEE/ACM HPDC 2013, 39th ICPP 2010.；

Steering Committee Member of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (2015 - now)；

Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing (2014 - now)；

Editorial Board member of IEEE Cloud Computing (2015 - now)；

Editorial Board member of Journal of Grid Computing (2013 - now)；

Editorial Board member of Journal of Cluster Computing (2013 - now).

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

Areas of Research Interests：

Parallel and Distributed Processing, Cloud Computing, Storage System

Main Research Projects：

Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of China: High Efficiency Storage and Management for Big Data (2015-2019);

Ministry of Science and Technology of China: Distributed Storage Systems and Cooperative Services for Cloud Computing (2016-2019);

Natural Science Foundation of China: Key Techniques for Cloud Storage Security from the Perspective of System Research (2014-2017);

Tsinghua Tongfang Co., Ltd.: Tsinghua University – Tsinghua Tongfang Co., Ltd. Joint Research Center for Computer Architecture (2016-2020);

Yonyou Network Co., Ltd. ( formerly known as ‘UFIDA’): Resource Virtulization, Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing (2014-2017).

Research Status

I am doing cutting-edge system research,especially focus on the design, implementation, evaluation and application of the parallel and distributed systems. My research interests include Runtime Environment, Data Storage/Management, Virtualization, Resource Management,Distributed Scheduling, Performance Analysis, Reliability/Fault Tolerant and other related topics.

Honors And Awards

National Award for Technological Invention, Second Class: Community Sharing Oriented Highly Available Cloud Storage System (2015);

National Award for Science and Technology Progress, Second Class: China Education and Research Grid (2008);

Tsinghua Science and Technology 2015: Best Paper Award (2015);

FSE 2014: ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (2014);

IMIS 2011: Best Paper Award (2011);

ScalCom 2009: Best Paper Award (2009);

CVIC Software Talent Award (2011);

Academic Achievement

[1] 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).

[2] RFP: When RPC is Faster than Server-Bypass with RDMA. Maomeng Su, Mingxing Zhang, Kang Chen, ZhenyuGuo, Yongwei Wu, 12th European Conference on Computer Systems Systems (EuroSys 2017).

[3] High Performance Graph Processing with Locality Oriented Design. Pin Gao, Mingxing Zhang, Kang Chen, Yongwei Wu, Weimin Zheng, IEEE Transactions on Computers (ToC), 2017.

[4] 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).

[5] 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).

[6] 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).

[7] 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.

[8] 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).

[9] 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.

[10] 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.

[11] HEADS-JOIN: Efficient Earth Mover’s Distance Similarity Joins on Hadoop. Jin Huang, Rui Zhang, RajkumarBuyya, Jian Chen, Yongwei Wu, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2016, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp.1660-1673.

[12] Top-k Spatio-Textual Similarity Join. Huiqi Hu, Guoliang Li, ZhifengBao, Jianhua Feng, Yongwei Wu, Zhiguo Gong, Yaoqiang Xu, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2016, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp.551-565.

[13] 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.

[14] 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.

[15] ThyNVM: Enabling Software-Transparent Crash Consistency in Persistent Memory Systems. Jinglei Ren, Jishen Zhao, Samira Khan, Jongmoo Choi, Yongwei Wu, and OnurMutlu, 48th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2015).

[16] 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.

[17] 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.

[18] 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).

[19] Memory-Centric Data Storage for Mobile Systems. Jinglei REN, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Yongwei WU, Thomas Moscibroda, 2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2015).

[20] 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).

[21] 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).

[22] 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).

[23] 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.

[24] 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.

[25] 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.

[26] 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.

[27] 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.

[28] 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.

[29] 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.

[30] 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.

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

[32] 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).

[33] 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).

[34] 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.

[35] 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.

[36] 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).

[37] 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.

[38] 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.

[39] 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.