CV

Contact Information

Name Chihan Cui
Email chihan.cui@wisc.edu

Experience

  • 2025 - 2025

    Portable expert-parallel communication library for MoE models (1200+ stars)
    UCCL-EP
    Supervisor: Yang Zhou
    • Achieved 2.1x throughput improvement on AWS EFA and 45% higher training throughput for DeepSeek-V3 on AMD clusters. Integrated into vLLM and Megatron-LM.
  • 2024 - 2024

    Benchmarking framework for SmartNICs and DPUs
    dpBento
    Supervisor: Qizhen Zhang & Philip A. Bernstein
    • Designed and implemented a flexible benchmarking framework for evaluating DPU performance in disaggregated environments.
  • 2024 - 2025

    Retry policy analysis in Lotus framework
    Distributed Transaction Protocols
    Supervisor: Dixin Tang
    • Developed multiple retry policies and conducted empirical comparisons across various transaction protocols.
  • 2025 - present

    GPU-accelerated SQL engine (800+ stars)
    Sirius
    • Built hybrid Top-N execution engine, achieving up to 6.12x end-to-end speedup on ClickBench.
  • 2025 - 2026

    Madison, WI

    TA, Intro to Big Data Systems
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Fall 2025 & Spring 2026

Education

  • 2025 - present

    Madison, WI

    Ph.D.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Computer Science
    • Advisor: Ming Liu
  • 2021 - 2025

    Ontario, Canada

    B.S.
    University of Toronto (St. George Campus)
    Computer Science
    • Advisors: Qizhen Zhang and Phil Bernstein

Publications