CV
Contact Information
| Name | Chihan Cui |
| chihan.cui@wisc.edu |
Experience
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2025 - 2026 Madison, WI
TA, Intro to Big Data Systems
University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Fall 2025 & Spring 2026
Education
Publications
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2026 -
2025 dpBento: Benchmarking DPUs for Data Processing
arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.05536