Yifan Dai

6th Year Graduate Student
yifann@cs.wisc.edu

Biography

I am a 6th year graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison under the instruction of Professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Professor Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. I am generally interested in filesystems and memory systems and their interaction with applications.

Publication

Celsius: A Zero-Copy Data Pipeline Engine
In Submission.

Fast, Transparent Filesystem Microkernel Recovery with Ananke [Best Paper]
Jing Liu, Yifan Dai, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
FAST '25
Available as: PDF

Symbiosis: The Art of Application and Kernel Cache Coordination
Yifan Dai, Jing Liu, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
FAST '24
Available as: PDF, PDFSlides, PPTSlides, SourceCode

Scale and Performance in a Filesystem Semi-Microkernel
Jing Liu, Anthony Rebello, Yifan Dai, Chenhao Ye, Sudarsun Kannan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
SOSP '21
Available as: PDF

From WiscKey to Bourbon: A Learned Index for Log-Structured Merge Trees
Yifan Dai, Yien Xu, Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Brian Kroth, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
OSDI '20
Available as: PDF, PDFSlides(Short, Long), PPTSlides(Short, Long), Videos(Short, Long), SourceCode

Experience

Ph.D. Engineering Intern, Seagate Technology, May 2023 - Aug. 2023

Research Assistant, Microsoft Gray System Lab, Feb. 2020 - Nov. 2022