Research
Principal Researcher
Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Jianqin Zhang, Guohong Lai, Liang Gao, Na Wang, Zongying He, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Lihua Yuan, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong
ACM SoCC 2026
Yuhong Zhong, Daniel S. Berger, Pantea Zardoshti, Enrique Saurez, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Antonis Psistakis, Joshua Fried, Asaf Cidon
The 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'25) | October 2025
Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong
2025 Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems | March 2025
Liangcheng Yu, Xiao Zhang, Haoran Zhang, John Sonchack, Dan R. K. Ports, Vincent Liu
OSDI 2024 | July 2024
Inho Choi, Nimesh Wadekar, Raj Joshi, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Jialin Li
Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems | August 2023
Alberto Lerner, Carsten Binnig, Phillipe Cudré-Mauroux, Rana Hussein, Matthias Jasny, Theo Jepsen, Dan R. K. Ports, Lasse Thorup, Tobias Ziegler
Very Large Data Bases | August 2023
Tutorial
Yifan Yuan, Jinghan Huang, Yan Sun, Tianchen Wang, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Yipeng Wang, Ren Wang, Charlie Tai, Nam Sung Kim
International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA '23) | February 2023
Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Wenxue Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports
6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet '22) | July 2022
Hang Zhu, Tao Wang, Yi Hong, Dan R. K. Ports, Anirudh Sivaraman, Xin Yang
USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
Yifan Yuan, Omar Alama, Jiawei Fei, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Nam Sung Kim
USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
Sowmya Dharanipragada, Shannon Joyner, Matthew Burke, Adriana Szekeres, Jacob Nelson, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports
SOSP 2021 | October 2021
Daehyeok Kim, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan
ACM SIGCOMM 2021 | August 2021
Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
NSDI 2021 | April 2021
Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Ellis Michael, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
OSDI '20 | November 2020
Lior Zeno, Dan R. K. Ports, Jacob Nelson, Mark Silberstein
HotNets '20 | November 2020
Tao Wang, Hang Zhu, Fabian Ruffy, Xin Jin, Anirudh Sivaraman, Dan R. K. Ports, Aurojit Panda
HotCloud 2020 | July 2020
Adriana Szekeres, Michael Whittaker, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Jialin Li, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang
Eurosys 2020 | April 2020
Huaicheng Li, Mingzhe Hao, Stanko Novakovic (stnovako), Vaibhav Gogte, Sriram Govindan, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang, Ricardo Bianchini, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Anirudh Badam
Proceedings on the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | March 2020
Hang Zhu, Zhihao Bai, Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Ion Stoica, Xin Jin
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment | November 2019, Vol 13(3): pp. 376-389
17th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2019
Amadeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
MSR-TR-2019-9 | February 2019
Published by KAUST
Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
UW-CSE-18-12-01 | December 2018
Published by University of Washington
Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC '18) | April 2018
Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '17) | October 2017
Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017
XMLSEC '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM workshop on XML security
Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '17) | October 2017
Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017
Xiaoxin Chen, Tal Garfinkel, E. Christopher Lewis, Pratap Subrahmanyam, Carl A. Waldspurger, Dan Boneh, Jeffrey Dwoskin, Dan R. K. Ports
Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems | March 2008
Most Influential Paper Award (2026)
Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Jianqin Zhang, Guohong Lai, Liang Gao, Na Wang, Zongying He, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Lihua Yuan, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong
ACM SoCC 2026
Yuhong Zhong, Daniel S. Berger, Pantea Zardoshti, Enrique Saurez, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Antonis Psistakis, Joshua Fried, Asaf Cidon
The 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'25) | October 2025
Liangcheng Yu, Xiao Zhang, Haoran Zhang, John Sonchack, Dan R. K. Ports, Vincent Liu
OSDI 2024 | July 2024
Inho Choi, Nimesh Wadekar, Raj Joshi, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Jialin Li
Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems | August 2023
Alberto Lerner, Carsten Binnig, Phillipe Cudré-Mauroux, Rana Hussein, Matthias Jasny, Theo Jepsen, Dan R. K. Ports, Lasse Thorup, Tobias Ziegler
Very Large Data Bases | August 2023
Tutorial
Yifan Yuan, Jinghan Huang, Yan Sun, Tianchen Wang, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Yipeng Wang, Ren Wang, Charlie Tai, Nam Sung Kim
International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA '23) | February 2023
Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Wenxue Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports
6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet '22) | July 2022
Yifan Yuan, Omar Alama, Jiawei Fei, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Nam Sung Kim
USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
Hang Zhu, Tao Wang, Yi Hong, Dan R. K. Ports, Anirudh Sivaraman, Xin Yang
USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
Sowmya Dharanipragada, Shannon Joyner, Matthew Burke, Adriana Szekeres, Jacob Nelson, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports
SOSP 2021 | October 2021
Daehyeok Kim, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan
ACM SIGCOMM 2021 | August 2021
Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
NSDI 2021 | April 2021
Lior Zeno, Dan R. K. Ports, Jacob Nelson, Mark Silberstein
HotNets '20 | November 2020
Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Ellis Michael, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
OSDI '20 | November 2020
Tao Wang, Hang Zhu, Fabian Ruffy, Xin Jin, Anirudh Sivaraman, Dan R. K. Ports, Aurojit Panda
HotCloud 2020 | July 2020
Adriana Szekeres, Michael Whittaker, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Jialin Li, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang
Eurosys 2020 | April 2020
Huaicheng Li, Mingzhe Hao, Stanko Novakovic (stnovako), Vaibhav Gogte, Sriram Govindan, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang, Ricardo Bianchini, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Anirudh Badam
Proceedings on the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | March 2020
Hang Zhu, Zhihao Bai, Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Ion Stoica, Xin Jin
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment | November 2019, Vol 13(3): pp. 376-389
17th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2019
Amadeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
MSR-TR-2019-9 | February 2019
Published by KAUST
Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
UW-CSE-18-12-01 | December 2018
Published by University of Washington
Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC '18) | April 2018
Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017
XMLSEC '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM workshop on XML security
Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '17) | October 2017
Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017
Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '17) | October 2017
Xiaoxin Chen, Tal Garfinkel, E. Christopher Lewis, Pratap Subrahmanyam, Carl A. Waldspurger, Dan Boneh, Jeffrey Dwoskin, Dan R. K. Ports
Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems | March 2008
Most Influential Paper Award (2026)
Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong
2025 Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems | March 2025
Alberto Lerner, Carsten Binnig, Phillipe Cudré-Mauroux, Rana Hussein, Matthias Jasny, Theo Jepsen, Dan R. K. Ports, Lasse Thorup, Tobias Ziegler
Very Large Data Bases | August 2023
Tutorial
Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Jianqin Zhang, Guohong Lai, Liang Gao, Na Wang, Zongying He, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Lihua Yuan, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong
ACM SoCC 2026
Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Wenxue Cheng, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong
2025 Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems | March 2025
Liangcheng Yu, Xiao Zhang, Haoran Zhang, John Sonchack, Dan R. K. Ports, Vincent Liu
OSDI 2024 | July 2024
Inho Choi, Nimesh Wadekar, Raj Joshi, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Jialin Li
Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems | August 2023
Alberto Lerner, Carsten Binnig, Phillipe Cudré-Mauroux, Rana Hussein, Matthias Jasny, Theo Jepsen, Dan R. K. Ports, Lasse Thorup, Tobias Ziegler
Very Large Data Bases | August 2023
Tutorial
Yifan Yuan, Jinghan Huang, Yan Sun, Tianchen Wang, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Yipeng Wang, Ren Wang, Charlie Tai, Nam Sung Kim
International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA '23) | February 2023
Ziyuan Liu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Wenxue Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Lihua Yuan, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports
6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet '22) | July 2022
Yifan Yuan, Omar Alama, Jiawei Fei, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Nam Sung Kim
USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
Hang Zhu, Tao Wang, Yi Hong, Dan R. K. Ports, Anirudh Sivaraman, Xin Yang
USENIX NSDI 2022 | April 2022
Sowmya Dharanipragada, Shannon Joyner, Matthew Burke, Adriana Szekeres, Jacob Nelson, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports
SOSP 2021 | October 2021
Daehyeok Kim, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Vyas Sekar, Srinivasan Seshan
ACM SIGCOMM 2021 | August 2021
Amedeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
NSDI 2021 | April 2021
Lior Zeno, Dan R. K. Ports, Jacob Nelson, Mark Silberstein
HotNets '20 | November 2020
Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Ellis Michael, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
OSDI '20 | November 2020
Tao Wang, Hang Zhu, Fabian Ruffy, Xin Jin, Anirudh Sivaraman, Dan R. K. Ports, Aurojit Panda
HotCloud 2020 | July 2020
Adriana Szekeres, Michael Whittaker, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Jialin Li, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang
Eurosys 2020 | April 2020
Huaicheng Li, Mingzhe Hao, Stanko Novakovic (stnovako), Vaibhav Gogte, Sriram Govindan, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang, Ricardo Bianchini, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Anirudh Badam
Proceedings on the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | March 2020
17th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2019
Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (PaPoC '18) | April 2018
Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '17) | October 2017
Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '17) | October 2017
Xiaoxin Chen, Tal Garfinkel, E. Christopher Lewis, Pratap Subrahmanyam, Carl A. Waldspurger, Dan Boneh, Jeffrey Dwoskin, Dan R. K. Ports
Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems | March 2008
Most Influential Paper Award (2026)
Yuhong Zhong, Daniel S. Berger, Pantea Zardoshti, Enrique Saurez, Jacob Nelson, Dan R. K. Ports, Antonis Psistakis, Joshua Fried, Asaf Cidon
The 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'25) | October 2025
Hang Zhu, Zhihao Bai, Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Ion Stoica, Xin Jin
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment | November 2019, Vol 13(3): pp. 376-389
Amadeo Sapio, Marco Canini, Chen-Yu Ho, Jacob Nelson, Panos Kalnis, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Masoud Moshref, Dan R. K. Ports, Peter Richtarik
MSR-TR-2019-9 | February 2019
Published by KAUST
Jialin Li, Jacob Nelson, Xin Jin, Dan R. K. Ports
UW-CSE-18-12-01 | December 2018
Published by University of Washington
Jialin Li, Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports
UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017
XMLSEC '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM workshop on XML security
Ellis Michael, Dan R. K. Ports, Naveen Kr. Sharma, Adriana Szekeres
UW-CSE-TR-17-10-01 | October 2017