dcslijl at nus.edu.sg
COM3 #02-54
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Singapore 119391
I am the Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. Before joining NUS, I received my PhD from the University of Washington, advised by Dan Ports. Before that, I received my bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. My research has received the 2026 ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame award, and Best Paper Awards at NSDI '26, NSDI '15, and OSDI '14.
I am broadly interested in distributed systems and operating systems research. More recently, I have worked on the following research topics: co-designing distributed systems and networks, OS and compiler support for heterogeneous hardware, and distributed AI/ML systems.
Hold On Loosely: Fast, Fault-Tolerant, and Cost-Efficient Reinforcement Learning over
Decentralized Network
Chaoyi Ruan, Geng Luo, Xinyi Wan, Long Zhao, Qinghe Wang, Jiaan Zhu, Duling Xu, Guanbin Xu,
Dehui Wei, Xiang Liu, Cheng Li, Haifeng Sun, Liang Luo, Congcong Miao, and Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 24th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '27)
Breaking Fault Lines: Unifying TEE-Assisted BFT Consensus in Partially Trusted Worlds
Xiaoqing Wen, Tong Liu, Jianyu Niu, Jialin Li, Cong Wang, Yinqian Zhang, and Chen Feng
Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '27)
Patronus: Real-Time Authentication of Industrial Control Systems Communication via Process-Aware
Certificates
Yining Qi, Yunfan Li, Tong Wu, Zhenyong Zhang, Zeyu Yang, Xin Che, Jialin Li, Jiming Chen, Peng
Cheng
Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses
(RAID '26)
BigBFT: Scaling BFT without Compromising Fault Tolerance via State Sharding
Guangda Sun and Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys '26)
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Ossim: OS-Driven Live Simulation for Cluster-Scale Full-Stack Evaluation
Yiliang Wan, Haifeng Sun, Yihan Yang, Jonas Kaufmann, Antoine Kaufmann, and Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys '26)
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HyStream: A Hybrid System for Application Streaming via Predictive Delivery and
Sequence-Linearized Caching
Jun Lu, Sheng Yue, Xiang Liu, Jinrui Zhang, Yongjian Fu, Jialin Li
IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN '26)
Capybara: Dynamic Load Balancing with Microsecond-Scale TCP Migration
Inho Choi, Nimish Wadekar, Guangda Sun, Raj Joshi, Joshua Fried, Omar S. Navarro Leija, Dan
Ports, Irene Zhang, Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM '26)
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Turbo: Efficiently Serving Long-Context Large Language Models with In-Network Aggregation
Ying Wan, Yuchen Xu, Chuwen Zhang, Yingsheng Huang, Yong Feng, Wenquan Xu, Jialin Li, Mingwei
Xu, Wenfei Wu, Congcong Miao
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM '26)
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Horizon: A Hyper-Edge Observability Engine for Live Streaming Networks
Ziqian Liu, Daqian Ding, Rui Han, Zhendong Xie, Aifang Xu, Changqian Wang, Kefei Liu, Jialin Li,
Yunming Xiao, Heming Cui, Yiming Qiu
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM '26)
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Concurrency Fuzzing of the Linux Kernel with eBPF
Jiacheng Xu, Dylan Wolff, Xing Yi Han, Jialin Li, and Abhik Roychoudhury
Proceedings of the 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '26)
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NutCracker: A Compilation Framework for Hybrid DPU Architectures
Yihan Yang, Haifeng Sun, Antoine Kaufmann, Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '26)
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HyperEdge: An Edge CDN Infrastructure for Cost Efficient Video Streaming
Dehui Wei, Haozhe Li, Rui Han, Jiao Zhang, Ma Yan, Xiaofei Pang, Yajie Peng, Zhichen Xue, Jialin
Li
Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26)
Best Paper Award π
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Lemonshark: Asynchronous DAG-BFT With Early Finality
Michael Yiqing Hu, Hong Yao Alvin Yan, Yihan Yang, Xiang Liu, Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26)
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Cortex: Achieving Low-Latency, Cost-Efficient Remote Data Access For LLM via Semantic-Aware
Knowledge Caching
Chaoyi Ruan, Chao Bi, Kaiwen Zheng, Ziji Shi, Xinyi Wan, Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26)
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Libra: Flexible Request Partitioning and Scheduling for Serving Unbalanced and Dynamic LLM
Workloads
Chaoyi Ruan, Yinhe Chen, Dongqi Tian, Yandong Shi, Yongji Wu, Jialin Li, Cheng Li
Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26)
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PD3: Prefetching Data with DPUs for Disaggregated Memory
Sidharth Sankhe, Felix Zhang, Umayrah Chonee, Sherman Lim, Jason Hu, Jialin Li, Qizhen
Zhang
Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26)
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Bridging Storage and Execution: A Semantic Virtual Bus for On-Demand Application Streaming
Jun Lu, Jialin Li, Yaoxue Zhang, Ju Ren
Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26)
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MirrorNet: High-fidelity and Scalable Network Emulation for Software-defined WAN
Congcong Miao, Yuejie Wang, Jianming Wang, Xuefeng Ji, Guozhi Shan, Pan Fang, Yanke Zhang,
Jialin Li, Xianneng Zou, Guyue Liu
Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26)
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Revisiting Parameter Server in LLM Post-Training
Xinyi Wan, Penghui Qi, Guangxing Huang, Chaoyi Ruan, Min Lin, Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR '26)
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SplitSim: Towards Practical Large-Scale Full-System Simulation for Systems Research
Hejing Li, Marvin Meiers, Jialin Li, Antoine Kaufmann
Proceedings of the ACM on Networking, Volume 3, Issue CoNEXT4 (CoNEXT '25)
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ML-native Dataplane Operating Systems
Inho Choi, Anand Bonde, Jing Liu, Joshua Fried, Irene Zhang, and Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys '25)
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Efficient Partitioning Vision Transformer on Edge Devices for Distributed Inference
Xiang Liu, Yijun Song, Xia Li, Yifei Sun, Huiying Lan, Zemin Liu, Linshan Jiang, and Jialin
Li
Proceedings of the 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '25)
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TAPAS: Fast and Automatic Derivation of Tensor Parallel Strategies for Large Neural Networks
Ziji Shi, Le Jiang, Ang Wang, Jie Zhang, Chencan Wu, Yong Li, Xiaokui Xiao, Wei Lin, Jialin
Li
Proceedings of the 54th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '25)
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PipeOffload: Improving Scalability of Pipeline Parallelism with Memory Optimization
Xinyi Wan, Penghui Qi, Guangxing Huang, Min Lin, and Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML '25)
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One-shot Federated Learning Methods: A Practical Guide
Xiang Liu, Zhenheng Tang, Xia Li, Yijun Song, Sijie Ji, Zemin Liu, Bo Han, Linshan Jiang, and
Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '25)
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Hare: A Systematic Framework for Efficient and Generally Automatic Hotspot Offloading on
Programmable Switches
Xueying Zhu, Yingtao Li, Xiang Li, Jialin Li, and Zeke Wang
IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN '25)
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QoE-Optimized MultiPath Scheduling for Video Services in Large-Scale Peer-To-Peer CDNs
Dehui Wei, Jiao Zhang, Xiang Liu, Haozhe Li, Zhichen Xue, Tao Huang, Linshan Jiang, and Jialin
Li
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC '25)
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DPDPU: Data Processing with DPUs
Jiagsheng Hu, Philip Bernstein, Jialin Li, and Qizhen Zhang
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR '25)
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FedLPA: One-shot Federated Learning with Layer-Wise Posterior Aggregation
Xiang Liu, Liangxi Liu, Feiyang Ye, Yunheng Shen, Xia Li, Linshan Jiang, and Jialin Li
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS '24)
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ParaGAN: A Scalable Distributed Training Framework for Generative Adversarial Networks
Ziji Shi, Jialin Li, and Yang You
2024 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC '24)
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Pscheduler: QoE-Enhanced MultiPath Scheduler for Video Services in Large-scale Peer-to-Peer
CDNs
Dehui Wei, Jiao Zhang, Haozhe Li, Zhichen Xue, Yajie Peng, Xiaofei Pang, Yuanjie Liu, Rui Han,
and Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM '24)
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TEE-based General-purpose Computational Backend for Secure Delegated Data Processing
Mo Sha, Jialin Li, Sheng Wang, Feifei Li, and Tan Kian-Lee
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD β24)
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P4SGD: Programmable Switch Enhanced Model-Parallel Training on Generalized Linear Models on
Distributed FPGAs
Hongjing Huang, Yingtao Li, Jie Sun, Xueying Zhu, Jie Zhang, Liang Luo, Jialin Li, and Zeke
Wang
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS '23)
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NeoBFT: Accelerating Byzantine Fault Tolerance Using Authenticated In-Network Ordering
Guangda Sun, Mingliang Jiang, Xin Zhe Khooi, Yunfan Li, and Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM '23)
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Network Load Balancing with In-network Reordering Support for RDMA
Cha Hwan Song, Xin Zhe Khooi, Raj Joshi, Inho Choi, Jialin Li, and Mun Choon Chan
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM '23)
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Capybara: ΞΌSecond-Scale Live TCP Migration
Inho Choi, Nimish Wadekar, Raj Joshi, Joshua Fried, Dan Ports, Irene Zhang, and Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys '23)
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Hydra: Serialization-Free Network Ordering for Strongly Consistent Distributed Applications
Inho Choi, Ellis Michael, Yunfan Li, Dan Ports, and Jialin Li
Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Conference on Network Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '23)
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iPET: Privacy Enhancing Traffic Perturbations for Secure IoT Communications
Akshaye Shenoi, Prasanna Karthik Vairam, Kanav Sabharwal, Jialin Li, and Dinil Mon Divakaran
Proceedings of the 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS '23)
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SimBricks: End-to-End Network System Evaluation with Modular Simulation
Hejing Li, Jialin Li, and Antoine Kaufmann
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM '22)
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Linear-Time Temporal Logic Guided Greybox Fuzzing
Ruijie Meng, Zhen Dong, Jialin Li, Ivan Beschastnikh, Abhik Roychoudhury
Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '22)
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Revisiting Heavy-Hitter Detection on Commodity Programmable Switches
Xin Zhe Khooi, Levente Csikor, Jialin Li, Min Suk Kang, and Dinil Mon Divakaran
Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft '21)
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In-Network Applications: Beyond Single Switch Pipelines
Xin Zhe Khooi, Levente Csikor, Jialin Li, and Dinil Mon Divakaran
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Theory and Practice of Programmable Forwarding (TaPoPF β21)
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Pegasus: Tolerating Skewed Workloads in Distributed Storage with In-Network Coherence
Directories
Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Ellis Michael, Xin Jin, and Dan R. K. Ports
Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '20)
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Meerkat: Scalable Replicated Transactions Following the Zero-Coordination Principle
Adriana Szekeres, Michael Whittaker, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Jialin Li, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Irene
Zhang, and Dan R. K. Ports
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGOPS EuroSys (EuroSys '20), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, April 2020
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Harmonia: Near-Linear Scalability for Replicated Storage with In-Network Conflict Detection
Hang Zhu, Zhihao Bai, Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Ion Stoica, and Xin Jin
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment vol. 13 (3) , November 2019 (pp. 376--389)
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Eris: Coordination-Free Consistent Transactions Using In-Network Concurrency Control
Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, and Dan R. K. Ports
Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '17)
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Just Say NO to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus Overhead with Network Ordering
Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres, and Dan R. K. Ports
Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '16)
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Specifying and Checking File System Crash-consistency Models
James Bornholt, Antoine Kaufmann, Jialin Li, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Emina Torlak, and Xi Wang
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages
and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'16)
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Arrakis: The Operating System Is the Control Plane
Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas
Anderson, and Timothy Roscoe
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems vol. 33 (4)
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Designing Distributed Systems Using Approximate Synchrony in Data Center Networks
Dan R. K. Ports, Jialin Li, Vincent Liu, Naveen Kr. Sharma, and Arvind Krishnamurthy
Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '15)
Best Paper Award π
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Tales of the Tail: Hardware, OS, and Application-level Sources of Tail Latency
Jialin Li, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Dan R. K. Ports, and Steven D. Gribble
Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC '14)
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Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane
Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas
Anderson, and Timothy Roscoe
Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '14)
Best Paper Award π
ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award ποΈ
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Towards High-Performance Application-Level Storage Management
Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Doug Woos, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Thomas Anderson, Arvind
Krishnamurthy, and Mark Zbikowski
Proceedings of the 5th Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '14)
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Bridging Pre- and Post-silicon Debugging with BiPeD
Andrew DeOrio, Jialin Li, and Valeria Bertacco
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD '12)
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