Statements and Vita

• Research Scholarship Statement
• Teaching Statement
• Service Statement
• Examples of Collaboration Statement
• Curriculum Vitae

Supporting Materials

Evidentiary Materials for Research, Scholarship

• Selected recent publications (Complete list of publications)

  • SFS: Smart OS Scheduling for Serverless Functions
    Yuqi Fu, Li Liu, Haoliang Wang, Yue Cheng, Songqing Chen
    The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis 2022 (SC’22)
    Best Student Paper Award Finalist

  • FaaSNet: Scalable and Fast Provisioning of Custom Serverless Container Runtimes at Alibaba Cloud Function Compute
    Ao Wang, Shuai Chang, Huangshi Tian, Hongqi Wang, Haoran Yang, Huiba Li, Rui Du, Yue Cheng
    USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2021 (USENIX ATC’21) [Acceptance rate = 18.8%]

  • FedAT: A High-Performance and Communication-Efficient Federated Learning System with Asynchronous Tiers
    Zheng Chai, Yujing Chen, Ali Anwar, Liang Zhao, Yue Cheng, Huzefa Rangwala
    The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC’21) [Acceptance rate = 23.6%]

  • Wukong: A Scalable and Locality-Enhanced Framework for Serverless Parallel Computing
    Benjamin Carver, Jingyuan Zhang, Ao Wang, Ali Anwar, Panruo Wu, Yue Cheng
    ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2020 (ACM SoCC’20) [Acceptance rate = 24.5%]

  • TiFL: A Tier-based Federated Learning System
    Zheng Chai, Ahsan Ali, Syed Zawad, Stacey Truex, Ali Anwar, Nathalie Baracaldo, Yi Zhou, Heiko Ludwig, Feng Yan, Yue Cheng
    ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing 2020 (ACM HPDC’20) [Acceptance rate = 22.5%]

  • InfiniCache: Exploiting Ephemeral Serverless Functions to Build a Cost-Effective Memory Cache
    Ao Wang, Jingyuan Zhang, Xiaolong Ma, Ali Anwar, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Vasily Tarasov, Feng Yan, Yue Cheng
    USENIX Conference on File and Storage Techniques 2020 (USENIX FAST’20) [Acceptance rate = 16.7%]

  • BESPOKV: Application Tailored Scale-Out Key-Value Stores
    Ali Anwar, Yue Cheng, Hai Huang, Jingoo Han, Hyogi Sim, Dongyoon Lee, Fred Douglis, Ali R. Butt
    The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC’18) [Acceptance rate = 23.6%]

  • Improving Docker Registry Design based on Production Workload Analysis
    Ali Anwar, Mohamed Mohamed, Vasily Tarasov, Michael Littley, Lukas Rupprecht, Yue Cheng, Nannan Zhao, Dimitrios Skourtis, Amit S. Warke, Heiko Ludwig, Dean Hildebrand, Ali R. Butt
    USENIX Conference on File and Storage Techniques 2018 (USENIX FAST’18) [Acceptance rate = 16.4%]

  • Erasing Belady’s Limitations: In Search of Flash Cache Offline Optimality
    Yue Cheng, Fred Douglis, Philip Shilane, Michael Trachtman, Grant Wallace, Peter Desnoyers, Kai Li
    USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2016 (USENIX ATC’16) [Acceptance rate = 17.7%]

• Relevant research products

  • Smart Function Scheduler (SFS): project

  • InfiniCache: project

  • Wukong: project

  • FaaSNet: project and datasets

  • Docker registry workload datasets: dataset

• Google Scholar Profile (publications sorted by citations)
• Google Scholar Profile (publications in reverse chronological order)

Evidentiary Materials for Teaching Effectiveness

• Student course evaluation summaries

• Curriculum development and course syllabi
  • CS 795: Distributed Systems & Cloud Computing [Fall’18]
  • CS 675: Distributed Systems [Spring’20]
  • CS 571: Operating Systems [Spring’22] [Spring’21] [Spring’20]
  • CS 475: Concurrent and Distributed Systems [Fall’21]
  • CS 471: Operating Systems [Fall’19] [Spring’19] [Fall’17]
• Course evaluation (Note that prior to Fall 2020, all GMU teaching evaluation reports were in archived paper format; since Spring 2021, all teaching evaluation forms are in E form.)
  • CS 571: Operating Systems [Spring’22]: evaluation form
  • CS 475: Concurrent and Distributed Systems [Fall’21]: evaluation form
  • CS 571: Operating Systems [Spring’21]: evaluation form
  • CS 571: Operating Systems [Spring’20]: evaluation form [formal course evaluation cancelled university-wide due to COVID]
  • CS 675: Distributed Systems [Spring’20]: evaluation form [formal course evaluation cancelled university-wide due to COVID]
  • CS 471: Operating Systems [Fall’19]: evaluation form
  • CS 471: Operating Systems [Spring’19]: evaluation form
  • CS 795: Cloud Computing [Fall’18]: evaluation form
  • CS 471: Operating Systems [Fall’17]: evaluation form

• List of students advised