Yuqing Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Computing Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Tsinghua University. Her research interests include databases, distributed systems, and large scale analytics.

Research Projects

  • RecodStore: Highly Available Datastore with On-Demand Trade-off between Replica Consistency and Response Time
  • Pronto (previously SHAFT): Highly Available Large-Scale Transactional Datastore
  • gShepherd: Big Data Store over Heterogeneous CPU Architecture

Selected Publications

  • Yuqing Zhu, Yilei Wang. Improving Transaction Processing Performance By Consensus Reduction[PDF]. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE BigData, 2015.

  • Yuqing Zhu. Non-Blocking One-Phase Commit Made Possible for Distributed Transactions over Replicated Data (poster description). 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE BigData, 2015.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Yilei Wang. SHAFT: Serializable, Highly Available and Fault Tolerant Concurrency Control For Large-Scale Datastores (PDF). The 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS, 2015.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Jianfeng Zhan, Chuliang Weng, Raghunath Nambiar, Jinchao Zhang, Xingzhen Chen, Lei Wang. BigOP: Generating Comprehensive Big Data Workloads as a Benchmarking Framework[PDF]. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA, 2014.

  • Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Chunjie Luo, Yuqing Zhu, Qiang Yang, Yongqiang He, Wanling Gao, Zhen Jia, Yingjie Shi, Shujie Zhang, Cheng Zhen, Gang Lu, Kent Zhan, Xiaona Li, Bizhu Qiu. BigDataBench: a Big Data Benchmark Suite from Internet Services[PDF]. IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture, HPCA, 2014.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Philip S. Yu, Jianmin WANG. RECODS: Replica Consistency-On-Demand Store (demo). IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE, 2013.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Philip S. Yu, Jianmin Wang. Malleable Flow for Time-Bounded Replica Consistency Control (poster, poster description). USENIX Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation, OSDI, 2012.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Jianmin Wang, Chaokun Wang. Ripple: A publish/subscribe service for multidata item updates propagation in the cloud (link). J. Network and Computer Applications, JNCA, 2011.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Jianmin Wang. Client-centric consistency formalization and verification for system with large-scale distributed data storage (link). Future Generation Comp. Syst., FGCS, 2010.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Naiqiao Du, Hao Tian, Jianmin Wang. laUD-MS: An Extensible System for Unstructured Data Management. IEEE Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb, 2010.

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Technical Reports

  • Yuqing Zhu. SHAFT: Serializable, Highly Available and Fault Tolerant Concurrency Control in the Cloud[PDF]. July, 2013.

  • Yuqing Zhu. 10 Observations on Google Cluster Trace + 2 Measures for Cluster Utilization Enhancement[PDF]. May, 2015

Research Grants

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61******)
    State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant No. 2014********)

Professional Services

  • Review for: Eurosys'15 (shadow PC); Computer; Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing; Journal of Network and Computer Applications; Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International; International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing; BPOE-2015, etc.

  • Session Chair, The 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2015), December 15, 2015, Melbourne, Australia

  • Publicity Chair, The Fourth Workshop of Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware (BPOE-4), In conjunction with ASPLOS 2014, March 1, 2014, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

  • PC Co-chair, The Second Workshop of Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware of Big Data Systems and Application (BPOE-2), In conjunction with CCF HPC China 2013, October 31, 2013, Guilin, Guangxi, China

  • Publicity Chair, The First Workshop of Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware of Big Data Systems and Applications (BPOE 2013), In conjunction with IEEE Big Data Conference 2013, October 8, 2013, Silicon Valley, CA, USA

  • Session Chair, HPCA 2013 Tutorial of High Volume Computing: The Motivations, Metrics, and Benchmarks Suites for Data Center Computer Systems, Shenzhen, 2013.