Kai Chen
Scholar

Kai Chen

Google Scholar ID: tnRV5QYAAAAJ
Professor, HKUST
Data Center NetworkingAI-Centric NetworkingMachine Learning Systems
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
6,943
 
H-index
45
 
i10-index
124
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
33
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Selected Publications:
  • - "MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training", ACM SIGCOMM 2025
  • - "CEIO: A Cache-Efficient Network I/O Architecture for NIC-CPU Data Paths", ACM SIGCOMM 2025
  • - "Revisiting RDMA Reliability for Lossy Fabrics", ACM SIGCOMM 2025 (Best student paper honorable mention)
  • - "Enabling Efficient GPU Communication over Multiple NICs with FuseLink", USENIX OSDI 2025
  • - "GREEN: Carbon-efficient Resource Scheduling for Machine Learning Clusters", USENIX NSDI 2025
  • Awards:
  • - DCP received Best Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at SIGCOMM'25
Research Experience
  • Joined HKUST in July 2012, where he directs the intelligent System & networkING (iSING) Lab and the WeChat-HKUST Joint Lab on Artificial Intelligence Technology (WHAT Lab).
Education
  • Received BS/MS in 2004/2007 from USTC and PhD in 2012 from Northwestern, all in Computer Science.
Background
  • Professor (currently on Sabbatical Leave)
  • Department of Computer Science & Engineering
  • Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
  • Research Interests: Data Center Networks, AI-centric Networking, High-performance Networking, Machine Learning Systems, Hardware Acceleration, Privacy-preserving Computing
Miscellany
  • Contact Information:
  • - Office: CYT-3005 (via lift 35/36)
  • - Phone: (852) 2358-7028
  • - Fax: (852) 2358-1477
  • - Email: kaichen (at) cse.ust.hk