Kai Zhang (张凯)
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science
Fudan University
Email: zhangk [AT] fudan [DOT] edu [DOT] cn
Address: 108 Software Building, Fudan University
825 Zhangheng Rd., Shanghai 201203, China
About Me
Dr. Kai Zhang is an Associate Professor at Fudan University. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2016. Before joining Fudan in Oct. 2017, he was a Research Fellow at National University of Singapore from Oct. 2016 to Oct. 2017. He was a Visiting Scholar at The Ohio State University from Sep. 2013 to Sep. 2015.
His research areas include Database Systems, Networked Systems, Parallel and Distributed Computing.
News and Events
- I am looking for Highly Self-Motivated Students with a strong interest in System Research. If you are interested in working with me, please send me an email with your CV and transcript.
Teaching
- COMP130110 Operating System (Fall 2021, 2022)
- COMP130201 Introduction to Computer Systems (Fall 2022)
- COMP130156 Introduction to Computer Systems (I) (Fall 2019, 2020)
- COMP130157 Introduction to Computer Systems (II) (Spring 2019, 2020, 2021)
Selected Publications
- Qixiang Chen, Zhijun Chen, Kai Zhang and X. Sean Wang. CLIC: An Extensible and Efficient Cross-Platform Data Analytics System . IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems(TPDS), 2023.
- Yimeng Qiao, Yinan Jing, Hanbing Zhang, Zhenying He, Kai Zhang and X. Sean Wang. BlinkViz: Fast and Scalable Approximate Visualization on Very Large Datasets using Neural-Enhanced Mixed Sum-Product Networks . The Web Conference(WWW), April 30 - May 4, 2023.
- Liangchen Guo, Kai Zhang, X. Sean Wang. Gaviss: Boosting the Performance of GPU-Accelerated NFV Systems via Data Sharing . IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems(TPDS), 2022.
- Ming Xu, Chuanwang Wang, Jitao Yu, Junjie Zhang, Kai Zhang, Weili Han. Chunk-Level Password Guessing: Towards Modeling Refined Password Composition Representations. Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security(CCS), November 15-19, 2021.
- Weili Han, Ming Xu, Junjie Zhang, Chuanwang Wang, Kai Zhang, X. Sean Wang. TransPCFG:Transferring the Grammars From Short Passwords to Guess Long Passwords Effectively. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 16: 451-465, 2021.
- Linwei Li, Kai Zhang, Jiading Guo, Wen He, Zhenying He, Yinan Jing, Weili Han, X. Sean Wang. BinDex: A Two-Layered Index for Fast and Robust Scans. Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Portland OR, USA, June 14-19, 2020.
- Hanbing Zhang, Yazhong Zhang, Zhenying He, Yinan Jing, Kai Zhang, X. Sean Wang. An Agile Sample Maintenance Approach for Agile Analytics. Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Dallas TX, USA, April 20-24, 2020.
- Zeke Wang, Xue Liu, Kai Zhang, Haihang Zhou, Bingsheng He. Understanding and Optimizing Conjunctive Predicates under Memory-Efficient Storage Layouts. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
- Kai Zhang, Bingsheng He, Jiayu Hu, Zeke Wang, Bei Hua, Jiayi Meng, Lishan Yang. G-NET: Effective GPU Sharing in NFV Systems. Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Renton WA, USA, April 9-11, 2018.
- Zeke Wang, Kai Zhang, Haihang Zhou, Xue Liu, Bingsheng He. Hebe: An Order-obliviousness and High-performance Execution Scheme for Conjunctive Predicates. Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE short paper), Paris, France, April 16-20, 2018.
- Kai Zhang, Kaibo Wang, Yuan Yuan, Lei Guo, Rubao Li, Xiaodong Zhang, Bingsheng He, Jiayu Hu, Bei Hua. A Distributed In-Memory Key-Value Store System on Heterogeneous CPU–GPU Cluster. The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB Journal), Volume 26 Number 5, Pages 729-750, October 2017.
- Kai Zhang, Jiayu Hu, Bingsheng He, Bei Hua. DIDO: Dynamic Pipelines for In-Memory Key-Value Stores on Coupled CPU-GPU Architectures. Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), San Diego, California, USA, April 19-22, 2017.
- Kai Zhang, Kaibo Wang, Yuan Yuan, Lei Guo, Rubao Lee, and Xiaodong Zhang. Mega-KV: A Case for GPUs to Maximize the Throughput of In-Memory Key-Value Stores, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 8, Issue. 11. July 2015. (presented in the 41th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Hawaii, USA, August 31 - September 4, 2015)
- Kai Zhang, Feng Chen, Xiaoning Ding, Yin Huai, Rubao Lee, Tian Luo, Kaibo Wang, Yuan Yuan, and Xiaodong Zhang. Hetero-DB: The Next Generation High-Performance Database System on Heterogeneous Computing and Storage Hardware, Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Volume 30, Issue 4, pages 657-678, July 2015.
- Kai Zhang, Jiayu Hu, Bei Hua. A Holistic Approach to Build Real-time Stream Processing System with GPU. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems (JPDC), Volume 83 Issue C, Pages 44-57, September 2015.
- Kaibo Wang, Kai Zhang, Yuan Yuan, Siyuan Ma, Rubao Lee, Xiaoning Ding, and Xiaodong Zhang. Concurrent analytical query processing with GPUs, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 7, Issue. 11. July 2014. (presented in the 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Hangzhou, China, September 1-5, 2014.)