Yiming Zhang Professor at Xiamen University (XMU), China, Director of NICEX Lab (Networked Intelligent Computing at EXascale), Xiamen, Fujian, China E-mail address: zhangyiming at xmu dot edu dot cn

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Dr. Yiming Zhang is a full professor at School of Informatics, Xiamen University, China. His research is focused on operating/networking/storage/AI systems and services computing. As the first/corresponding author, he has published many highly-influential papers in top conferences like NSDI, FAST, EuroSys, ATC, VLDB, and famous Journals like TOCS, TON, TOS, JSAC, TPDS. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, and a member of 2022 EuroSys Roger Needham Award Committee. He has received the National Science and Technology Award (2nd prize), the Natural Science Award of Hunan province (1st prize), and the (top 10) Outstanding Dissertation Award. His research (TianheGraph) is ranked No. 1 in the latest Graph500 on Tianhe supercomputer. As the Project Leader, he won the CCF Award of Science and Technology (1st prize) in 2021.

Here is the CV.

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Selected Publications:

Recent Conference Papers

• Bandle: Asynchronous State Machine Replication Made Efficient.
  Bo Wang, Shengyun Liu, He Dong, Xiangzhe Wang, Wenbo Xu, Jingjing Zhang, Ping Zhong, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding).
  ACM EuroSys 2024.


• Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems.
  Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Fengyi Zhu, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu.
  USENIX FAST 2023 (Best Paper Award!)


• vGRAPH: Memory-Efficient Multicore Graph Processing for Traversal-Centric Algorithms.
  Menghan Jia*, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Xinbiao Gan, Dongsheng Li, Ruibo Wang, Kai Lu.
  ACM SC 2022. *Co-primary authors


• NVMe SSD Failures in the Field: the Fail-Stop and the Fail-Slow.
  Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu.
  USENIX ATC 2022.


• InfiniFS: An Efficient Metadata Service for Large-Scale Distributed Filesystems.
  Wenhao Lv, Youyou Lu, Yiming Zhang, Peile Duan, Jiwu Shu.
  USENIX FAST 2022.


• XTree: Traversal-Based Partitioning for Extreme-Scale Graph Processing on Supercomputers.
  Xinbiao Gan, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Ruigeng Zeng, Jie Liu, Ruibo Wang, Tiejun Li, Li Chen, Kai Lu.
  IEEE ICDE 2022.


• MapperX: Adaptive Metadata Maintenance for Fast Crash Recovery of DM-Cache Based Hybrid Storage Devices.
  Lujia Yin, Li Wang, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Yuxing Peng.
  USENIX ATC 2021.


• ParaX: Boosting Deep Learning for Big Data Analytics on Many-Core CPUs.
  Lujia Yin*, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Zhaoning Zhang, Yuxing Peng, Peng Zhao.
  VLDB 2021. *Co-primary authors


• MapX: Controlled Data Migration in the Expansion of Decentralized Object-Based Storage Systems.
  Li Wang, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Jiawei Xu, Guangtao Xue.
  USENIX FAST 2020. *Co-primary authors


• UrsaL: Ultra-Efficient, Reliable, Scalable, and Available Block Storage at Low Cost.
  Huiba Li*, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Haonan Wang, Ping Zhong.
  IEEE INFOCOM 2020. *Co-primary authors


• TopoX: Topology Refactorization for Efficient Graph Partitioning and Processing.
  Dongsheng Li*, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Jinyan Wang, Kian-Lee Tan.
  VLDB 2019. *Co-primary authors


• URSA: Hybrid Block Storage for Cloud-Scale Virtual Disks.
  Huiba Li*, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Dongsheng Li, Zhiming Zhang, Shengyun Liu, Peng (Ryan) Huang, Zheng Qin, Kai Chen, Yongqiang Xiong.
  ACM EuroSys 2019. *Co-primary authors


• KylinX: A Dynamic Library Operating System for Simplified and Efficient Cloud Virtualization.
  Yiming Zhang, Jon Crowcroft, Dongsheng Li, Chengfei Zhang, Huiba Li, Yaozheng Wang, Kai Yu, Yongqiang Xiong, Guihai Chen.
  USENIX ATC 2018.


• The Fusion of VMs and Processes: A System Perspective of cKernel.
  Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Qiao Zhou, Feng Huang, Feng Huang, Yang Hu, Ping Zhong, Yongqiang Xiong, Huaimin Wang.
  IEEE ICDCS 2018 (Invited Paper).


• PCatch: Automatically Detecting Performance Cascading Bugs in Cloud Systems.
  Jiaxin Li, Yuxi Chen, Haopeng Liu, Shan Lu, Yiming Zhang, Haryadi Gunawi, Xiaohui Gu, Xicheng Lu, Dongsheng Li.
  ACM EuroSys 2018.


• PariX: Speculative Partial Writes in Erasure-Coded Systems.
  Huiba Li, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Zhiming Zhang, Shengyun Liu, Dongsheng Li, Xiaohui Liu, Yuxing Peng.
  USENIX ATC 2017.


• CubeX: Leveraging Glocality of Cube-Based Networks for RAM-Based Key-Value Store.
  Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Tian Tian, Ping Zhong.
  IEEE INFOCOM 2017.


• OPTAS: Decentralized Flow Monitoring and Scheduling for Tiny Tasks.
  Ziyang Li, Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Kai Chen, Yuxing Peng.
  IEEE INFOCOM 2016.


• CubicRing: Enabling One-Hop Failure Detection and Recovery for Distributed In-Memory Storage Systems.
  Yiming Zhang, Chuanxiong Guo, Dongsheng Li, Rui Chu, Haitao Wu, Yongqiang Xiong.
  USENIX NSDI 2015.

Journal Papers

• Ziyang Li, Dongsheng Li, Yingwen Chen, Kai Chen, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding). Decentralized Scheduling for Data-Parallel Tasks in the Cloud. ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC), accepted, 1-23, 2024.
• Huiba Li, Zhihao Zhang, Yifan Yuan, Rui Du, Kai Ma, Lanzhen Liu, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Windorsor Hsu. Block-Level Image Service for the Cloud. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 2024, 20(1): 1-28.
• Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Huiba Li, Shengyun Liu, Peng Huang. Hybrid Block Storage for Efficient Cloud Volume Service. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 2023, 19(4): 1-25.
• Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Fengyi Zhu, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu. From Missteps to Milestones: A Journey to Practical Fail-Slow Detection. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 2023, 19(4): 1-28.
• Jiaxin Li, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Haryadi S. Gunawi, Xiaohui Gu, Feng Huang, Dongsheng Li. Performance Bug Analysis and Detection for Distributed Storage and Computing Systems. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 2023, 19(3): 1-33. Doi: 10.1145/3580281.
• Yiming Zhang, Li Wang, Shun Gai, Qiwen Ke, Wenhao Li, Zhenlong Song, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu. Oasis: Controlling Data Migration in Expansion of Object-Based Storage Systems. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 19(1): 1-22, 2023.
• Yiming Zhang, Lujia Yin, Dongsheng Li, Yuxing Peng, Kai Lu. ParaX: Bandwidth-Efficient Instance Assignment for DL on Multi-NUMA Many-Core CPUs. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). Published online. Doi: 10.1109/TC.2022.3145164.
• Shun Gai, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Xuchao Xie, Haowen Chen, Xi Zhao, Yong Dong, Zhenlong Song. UrsaX: Integrating Block I/O and Message Transfer for Ultra-Fast Block Storage on Supercomputers. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Published online. Doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2023.3237983. 2023.
• Yiming Zhang, Kai Lu, Wenguang Chen. Processing Extreme-Scale Graphs on China's Supercomputers. Communications of the ACM (CACM), 64(11): 60-63, 2021.
• Xinbiao Gan, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Ruibo Wang, Chunye Gong, Tiaojie Xiao, Ruigeng Zeng, Jie Liu, Kai Lu. TianheGraph: Customizing Graph Search for Graph500 on Tianhe Supercomputer. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). Published online. Doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2021.3100785.
• Yiming Zhang, Chengfei Zhang, Yaozheng Wang, Kai Yu, Jon Crowcroft. KylinX: Simplified Virtualization Architecture for Specialized Virtual Appliances. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 37(1-4): 1-27, 2021.
• Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, et al. GraphA: Efficient Partitioning and Storage for Distributed Graph Computation. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 14(1): 155-166, 2021.
• Zhiyao Hu, Dongsheng Li, Dongxiang Zhang, Yiming Zhang, Baoyun Peng. Optimizing Resource Allocation for Data-Parallel Jobs Via GCN-Based Prediction. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 32(9): 2188-2201, 2021.
• Yiming Zhang, Haonan Wang, Menghan Jia, Jinyan Wang, Dongsheng Li, Guangtao Xue, Kian-Lee Tan. TopoX: Topology Refactorization for Minimizing Network Communication in Graph Computations. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 28(6): 2768-2782, 2020. Doi: 10.1109/TNET.2020.3020813.
• Yiming Zhang, Huiba Li, Shengyun Liu, Jiawei Xu, Guangtao Xue. PBS: An Efficient Erasure-Coded Block Storage System Based on Speculative Partial Writes. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 16(1): 1-25, 2020.
• Dongsheng Li, Zhiyao Hu, Zhiquan Lai, Yiming Zhang, Kai Lu. Coordinative Scheduling of Computation and Communication in Data-parallel Systems. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). Doi: 10.1109/TC.2020.3039238.
• Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Ling Liu. Leveraging Glocality for Fast Failure Recovery in Distributed RAM Storage. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 15(1): 1-24, 2019.
• Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, et al. CubicRing: Exploiting Network Proximity for Distributed In-Memory Key-Value Store. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 25(4): 2040-2053, 2017.
• Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Zhigang Sun, Feng Zhao, Jinshu Su, Xicheng Lu. CSR: Classified Source Routing in Distributed Networks. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 6(2): 464-477, 2018.
• Yiming Zhang, Rong Chang, Paul Townend. Special Section on Virtualization and Services for Cloud-Based Application Systems. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). 12(1), 2019
• Feng Huang, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Dongsheng Li, et al. meGautz: A High Capacity, Fault-tolerant and Traffic Isolated Modular Datacenter Network. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 11(1): 117-130, 2018.
• Ting Li, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Hao Liu, et al. Fast Compressive Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Sparse Graph. IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD). Doi: 10.1109/TBDATA.2019.2931532.
• Yiming Zhang, Ling Liu. Distributed Line Graphs: A Universal Technique for Designing DHTs Based on Arbitrary Regular Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 24(9): 1556-1569, 2012.
• Yiming Zhang, Lei Chen, Xicheng Lu, Dongsheng Li. Enabling Routing Control in a DHT. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC), 28(1): 28-38, 2010.

Selected Awards:

• Science & Technology Award, First Class, granted by China Computer Federation (CCF), Dec. 2021
• No. 1 in the Graph500 List (TianheGraph), ranked by Graph500 Steering Committee, June 2021
• Outstanding Dissertation Award, awarded by China Computer Federation (CCF) to the top 10 dissertations chosen nationally, Jan. 2011
• Distinguished Chinese Student Scholarship, granted by the Chinese Ministry of Education and HP to the top 12 PhD students chosen nationally, Jul. 2008
• Ciyungui Scholarship, awarded by NUDT to the top 1% PhD students, Dec. 2008
• Found of Innovation, awarded by Hunan Province for excellent research, Sep. 2008

History:

• 2021.01 ~ Now: Professor, Shanghai Zhiyuan Academy of Artificial Intelligence. Working on Secure storage in the cloud.
• 2013.12 ~ 2020.12: Associate Professor, School of Computer at NUDT. Working on cloud computing and large-scale machine learning.
• 2012.06 ~ 2013.06: Visiting Researcher, System Research Group, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge. Studying Exokernel and virtual machines.
• 2011.04 ~ 2011.11: Visiting Researcher, Wireless & DCN group at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). Studying RAM-based key-value store and cloud failure modeling.
• 2008.12 ~ 2013.12: Assistant Professor, School of Computer at NUDT. Working on datacenter network topology design.
• 2006.05 ~ 2008.12: Worked for PhD thesis on P2P networking.

Professional Service:

• Member of 2022 EuroSys Roger Needham Award Committee
• Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers
• Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
• PC Chair of IEEE Conference on BigData Processing Systems (2018), JointCloud Computing (2017), Large-Scale Clustering Algrithms (2016)
• PC member of IEEE AAAI (2020), ICWS (2017 ~ 2022), ICDCS (2017, 2011), P2P (2010)
• Corresponding editor of Special Issue "Virtualization and Services for Cloud-Based Application Systems" of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Projects:

• Efficient Storage and Complex Queries for OLDI Applications (National Science Foundation of China, NSFC)
• Efficient P2P Networks Based on Directed Line Graphs (Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education)

Last modified: March 20, 2023