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 infrastructures, such as load-store interconnects, disaggregated storage, and programmable networks.

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

 

Research

Recently, we build applications, systems, protocols, and utilities for composable rack-scale infrastructures.

• Load-Store Interconnect
  • PathFinder tracks and analyzes CXL.mem using Intel PMUs (SIGCOMM’25).
  • MegaStation realizes the MIMO baseband processing on a single-node supercomputer (NSDI’25).
  • rPCIeBench develops a benchmarking framework to characterize Routable PCIe (NSDI’24).
• Disaggregated Storage
  • ntprof is a profiling utility for characterizing and analyzing the NVMe-over-TCP protocol (NSDI’25).
  • Flint builds an elastic block storage over EBOFs using shadow views (NSDI’25).
  • LEED develops a low-power and fast key-value store over SmartNIC JBOFs (SIGCOMM’23).
• Programmable Network
  • SCR provides a framework enabling packet-granular software control over the harware transport (NSDI’25).
  • RpcNIC is a software-hardware co-designed SmartNIC-native accelerator for the RPC stack (HPCA’25).
  • LogNIC develops a high-level performance model for SmartNICs (MICRO’23).

Students

Zerui Guo, Wentao Hou, Yuyuan Kang, Joontaek Oh (postdoc)

Service

Program Committee Member: NSDI 2026, ASPLOS 2026, APNet 2025, SOSP 2024, HotInfra 2024, APNET 2024, OSDI 2024, NSDI 2024, HotInfra 2023, APNET 2023, SYSTOR 2023, SIGCOMM 2022, SYSTOR 2021