Applied Distributed Systems Lab (ADSLab)

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
 

People

Graduate Students

  1. Cao, Zhang, PhD 2025 - now (Graduated from Xidian)

  2. Zhang, Juncheng, PhD 2025 - now (Graduated from USTC)

  3. Cai, Jiazhen, PhD 2024 - now (Graduated from CMUT)

  4. Ren, Yuanming, PhD 2023 - now (Graduated from TJU)

  5. Liu, Qingxiu, PhD 2023 - now (Graduated from CAS)

  6. Puyang, Huancheng, PhD 2022 - now (Graduated from HKUST)

  7. Ren, Yanjing, PhD 2022 - now (Graduated from UESTC)

  8. Zhao, Jia, PhD 2022 - now (Graduated from CUHK)

Alumni

Graduated Students

  1. Sheng, Siyuan, PhD 2025
    • Thesis: "Efficient and Reliable Data Center Management with Programmable Switches."
    • First employment: Huawei Technologies.

  2. Cheng, Keyun, PhD 2025
    • Thesis: "Toward Efficient and Dependable Erasure-Coded Storage through Load-balanced Redundancy Transitioning and Harmonization of Repair and Maintenance."
    • First employment: Research and Development Engineer, Huawei Technologies.

  3. Li, Jinhong, PhD 2024
    • Thesis: "On the Workload Characterization and Read-Modify-Write Optimization for SSD-Based Cloud Data Centers."
    • First employment: Senior Software Engineer, Tencent.

  4. Tang, Kaicheng, MPhil 2022
    • Thesis: "Balancing Repair Bandwidth and Sub-packetization in Erasure-Coded Storage via Elastic Transformation."
    • First employment: Alibaba Group.

  5. Wang, Qiuping, PhD 2022
    • Thesis: "Enabling High Performance in Large-Scale Block Storage Systems through New Caching and Garbage Collection Algorithms."
    • First employment: Software engineer, Alibaba Group.

  6. Yang, Zuoru, PhD 2022
    • Thesis: "Enhancing Secure Deduplication with Tunability and Shielded Execution for Outsourced Storage."
    • First employment: Senior research engineer, Huawei Technologies.

  7. Ma, Pengcheng, MPhil 2022
    • Thesis: "A Performance Evaluation Study of Triple-Fault-Tolerant Erasure Codes."
    • First employment: Huawei Technologies.

  8. Cheng, Zhinan, PhD 2022
    • Thesis: "Fault-tolerant Designs for Distributed Stream Processing."
    • First employment: Senior Software Engineer, Tencent.

  9. Han, Shujie, PhD 2021
    • Thesis: "Characterization and Prediction of Disk Drive Failures at Scale."
    • First employment: Boya Postdoc Fellow, Peking University.

  10. Wong, Tsz Fung (Ivan), MPhil 2021
    • Thesis: "Enabling Heterogeneity-Aware Raft Consensus for Distributed Key-Value Storage."
    • First employment: Software Analyst, Ahsay Backup, Hong Kong.

  11. Tang, Lu, PhD 2020
    • Thesis: "Invertible Sketches for Network Measurement at Scale."
    • First employment: Postdoc, CUHK.
    • Next (from March 2021): Assistant Professor, Xiamen University.

  12. Li, Xiaolu, PhD 2020
    • Thesis: "Enabling Optimal Repair and Unified Management of Erasure Coding in Distributed Storage Systems."
    • First employment: Postdoc, CUHK
    • Next (from February 2022): Lecturer, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

  13. Zhang, Mi, PhD 2019
    • Thesis: "On the Reliability Analysis and Robust Straggler Tolerance of Data-Center Storage with Erasure Coding."
    • First employment: Postdoc, CUHK.
    • Next (from September 2021): Assistant Researcher, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  14. Chan, Hoi Wan (Helen), PhD 2018
    • Thesis: "Log-structured Flash-based Storage with Endurance, Reliability, and Performance Guarantees."
    • First employment: R&D engineer, Unissoft Inc., Hong Kong.
    • Current (from September 2019): Postdoc, CUHK.

  15. Qin, Chuan, PhD 2016
    • Thesis: "Unifying Security and Deduplication in Cloud Storage."
    • First employment: Researcher, Rakuten Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

  16. Yiu, Man Tung (Matt), MPhil 2016
    • Thesis: "Erasure Coding in In-Memory Key-Value Storage."
    • First employment: Stepcase, Hong Kong. (Stepcase is the company that built Lifehack)

  17. Li, Runhui, PhD 2015
    • Thesis: "Enabling Efficient and Dependable Clustered File Systems through New Erasure Coding Techniques."
    • First employment: Postdoc at CUHK.
    • Current (from 2018): Storage expert, Sangfor Technologies, China.

  18. Huang, Qun, PhD 2015
    • Thesis: "Efficient Algorithms and Systems for High-Speed Network Traffic Analytics"
    • First employment: Researcher, Future Network Theory Lab, Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong.
    • Current (from June 2020): Assistant Professor, Peking University, China.

  19. Xu, Min, MPhil 2015
    • Thesis: "Even Data Placement for Load Balance in Reliable Distributed Deduplication Storage."
    • First employment: PhD student in Computer Science at University of Chicago.

  20. Chan, Chun Wing (Jeremy), MPhil 2014
    • Thesis: "Enabling High-Performance Erasure-Coded Storage Systems via Workload-Aware Designs."
    • First employment: Analyst, Barclays Investment Bank, Hong Kong.

  21. Ding, Qian, MPhil 2014
    • Thesis: "TWEEN: Toward Write Efficiency and Endurance in SSD RAID using Non-volatile Cache."
    • First employment: Software Engineer, Google, Mountain View, US.

  22. Li, Yan Kit (Wilson), MPhil 2014
    • Thesis: "Performance and Security of Deduplication Storage Systems"
    • First employment: Research assistant at CUHK.
    • Next (from March 2015): Researcher, Rakuten Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

  23. Lin, Jian, MPhil 2013
    • Thesis: "Augmenting Cloud File Systems with Erasure Coding: A Practical Perspective."
    • First employment: Epic, Wisconsin, US.

  24. Tang, Chung Pan, MPhil 2013
    • Thesis: "A Tunable Version Control System for Virtual Machines in an Open-Source Cloud."
    • First employment: Harmonic Inc., Hong Kong.

  25. Chen, Chuk Hin (Henry), MPhil 2012
    • Thesis: "Practical Data Integrity Protection in Network-coded Cloud Storage."
    • First employment: Research assistant at CUHK.
    • Next (from September 2013): Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UT Austin.

  26. Ng, Chun Ho, MPhil 2012
    • Thesis: "Live Deduplication Storage of Virtual Machine Images in an Open-Source Cloud."
    • First employment: Research assistant at CUHK.
    • Next (from November 2013): Epic, Wisconsin, US.

  27. Ma, Mingcao, MPhil 2012
    • Thesis: "Kernel-Space Inline Deduplication File Systems for Virtual Machine Image Storage."
    • First employment: NetDimensions, Hong Kong.

  28. Rahumed, Arthur, MPhil 2012
    • Thesis: "Data Security and Reliability in Cloud Backup Systems with Deduplication."
    • First employment: Harmonic Inc., Hong Kong.

  29. Choi, Fu Wing (Harry), MPhil 2011
    • Thesis: "An Extensible Design of a Load-Aware Virtual Router Monitor in User Space."
    • First employment: Harmonic Inc., Hong Kong.

  30. Fung, Siu Yuen (Ben), MPhil 2011
    • Thesis: "DeRef: A Privacy-Preserving Defense Mechanism Against Request Forgery Attacks."
    • First employment: Management Trainee at Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong.

  31. Tang, Yang, MPhil 2011
    • Thesis: "FADE: Secure Overlay Cloud Storage with Access Control and File Assured Deletion."
    • First employment: Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Columbia University.

Post-doc Alumni

  1. Wu, Si, Postdoc, January 2019 - July 2020
    • First employment: Associate Researcher, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China

  2. Shen, Zhirong, Postdoc, September 2017 - August 2019
    • First employment: Associate Professor, Xiamen University, China

  3. Li, Jingwei, Postdoc, January 2015 - February 2016
    • First employment: Assistant Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China

  4. Li, Mingqiang, Postdoc, March 2013 - February 2015
    • First employment: Advisory Researcher, Lenovo Group Limited

  5. Hu, Yuchong, Postdoc, December 2013 - January 2015
    • First employment: Associate professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

  6. Li, Yongkun, Postdoc (affiliated with Institute of Network Coding), September 2012 - December 2013
    • First employment: Associate researcher, University of Science and Technology of China