Wei Wang
Scholar

Wei Wang

Google Scholar ID: FeJrzPMAAAAJ
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Cloud ComputingMachine Learning SystemsBig Data SystemsComputer Networking
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
5,941
 
H-index
34
 
i10-index
73
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
17
list available
Contact
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Paper 'SpInfer' received Best Paper Award at ACM EuroSys ’25
  • Multiple papers accepted to top venues: ACM SoCC ’25, NeurIPS ’25, ACM EuroSys ’26 (2 papers), NSDI ’26, COLT 2025, USENIX ATC ’25 (4 papers), USENIX NSDI ’25, IEEE INFOCOM ’25, IEEE TDSC
  • Released ROLL, Alibaba’s optimized framework for large-scale reinforcement learning
  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • TPC member for IEEE ICNP 2025 and IEEE HiPC 2025
Background
  • Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Associate Director, HKUST Big Data Institute
  • Associate Director, HKUST-Alibaba Joint Lab on Big Data and AI
  • Research interests span networking and distributed systems, with a special focus on distributed machine learning systems (MLSys) and AI cloud infrastructure
  • Focuses on identifying fundamental system design issues and optimization opportunities for emerging AI workloads (e.g., LLM pre-training, reinforcement learning, generative inference) on large-scale cloud infrastructure, seeking generally applicable, efficient, and easily implementable solutions