Ming Liu

I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2021. I’m a member of the NetLab and madNets groups. I study networking and systems, with a focus on building efficient and practical networked systems. My work is driven by emerging hardware, including customized interconnects, programmable network adapters/switches, and specialized endpoint computing/storage devices.

I am actively looking for students. If you are interested, feel free to email me.

 

Research

Recently, we build systems/protocols/interfaces/utilities for composable rack-scale infrastructures.

• Memory Fabrics (CXL|Routable PCIe|ExpEther)
  • rPCIeBench develops a benchmarking framework to characterize Routable PCIe (NSDI’24).
  • FCC proposes a new computing paradigm for composable infrastructure (HotOS’23).
• Programmable Disaggregated Storage
  • LEED develops a low-power and fast key-value store over SmartNIC JBOFs (SIGCOMM’23).
  • eZNS provides an elastic and predictable zoned interface for small-zone ZNS SSDs (OSDI’23).
  • Dremel configures the RocksDB adaptively over disaggregated storage (SIGMETRICS’22).
  • Gimbal enables efficient multi-tenancy on NVMe-oF targets for SmartNIC JBOFs (SIGCOMM’21).
• Smart-(NIC|Switch) Assisted Computing
  • LogNIC develops a high-level performance model for SmartNICs (MICRO’23).
  • ASK provides generic in-network aggregation for key-value streams (ASPLOS’23).
  • Xenic accelerates distributed transaction processing using an on-path SmartNIC (SOSP’21).

Students

Zerui Guo, Wentao Hou, Xincheng Xie

Service

• Organizing Committee Member: SmartNICs Summit (2021-2023)
• Program Committee Member: OSDI 2024, NSDI 2024, SmartNICs Summit 2023, APNET 2023, SYSTOR 2023, SIGCOMM 2022, SmartNICs Summit 2022, SYSTOR 2021