Yiting Xia

Dr. Yiting Xia

Address: Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Saarland Informatics Campus
Campus E1 4
66123 Saarbrücken
Location: E1 4 - 526
Phone: +49 681 9325 3901
Fax: +49 681 9325 5719
E-mail: Get email via email

Personal Information

I am a tenure-track faculty at Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), where I lead the network and cloud systems research group.

Before joining MPI, I was a research scientist at Facebook. I received my PhD degree in Computer Science from Rice University in 2018. I got my Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering with First Class Honors from a joint program between Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in 2011.

For more information, please visit my personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/yitingxia

Publications

2022

Li, J., Lei, Y., De Marchi, F., Joshi, R., Chandrasekaran, B., & Xia, Y. (2022). Hop-On Hop-Off Routing: A Fast Tour across the Optical Data Center Network for Latency-Sensitive Flow. In 6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet 2022). Fuzhou, China: ACM. doi:10.1145/3542637.3542647

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@inproceedings{Li_APNet2022, TITLE = {{Hop-On Hop-Off} Routing: {A} Fast Tour across the Optical Data Center Network for Latency-Sensitive Flow}, AUTHOR = {Li, Jialong and Lei, Yiming and De Marchi, Federico and Joshi, Raj and Chandrasekaran, Balakrishnan and Xia, Yiting}, LANGUAGE = {eng}, DOI = {10.1145/3542637.3542647}, PUBLISHER = {ACM}, YEAR = {2022}, MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$}, BOOKTITLE = {6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet 2022)}, ADDRESS = {Fuzhou, China}, }

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%0 Conference Proceedings %A Li, Jialong %A Lei, Yiming %A De Marchi, Federico %A Joshi, Raj %A Chandrasekaran, Balakrishnan %A Xia, Yiting %+ Networks and Cloud Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society Networks and Cloud Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations Networks and Cloud Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society %T Hop-On Hop-Off Routing: A Fast Tour across the Optical Data Center Network for Latency-Sensitive Flow : %G eng %U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-7CD6-8 %R 10.1145/3542637.3542647 %D 2022 %B 6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking %Z date of event: 2022-07-01 - 2022-07-02 %C Fuzhou, China %B 6th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking %I ACM

Lin, G. C., Schoenfeld, I., Thompson, M., Xia, Y., Uz-Bilgin, C., & Leech, K. (2022). ”What Color Are the Fish’s Scales?” Exploring Parents’ and Children’s Natural Interactions with a Child-Friendly Virtual Agent during Storybook Reading. In Proceedings of IDC ’22. Braga, Portugal: ACM. doi:10.1145/3501712.3529734

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@inproceedings{Lin_IDC22, TITLE = {{\textquotedblright}What Color Are the Fish{\textquoteright}s Scales?{\textquotedblright} Exploring Parents{\textquoteright} and Children{\textquoteright}s Natural Interactions with a Child-Friendly Virtual Agent during Storybook Reading}, AUTHOR = {Lin, Grace C. and Schoenfeld, Ilana and Thompson, Meredith and Xia, Yiting and Uz-Bilgin, Cigdem and Leech, Kathryn}, LANGUAGE = {eng}, ISBN = {978-1-4503-9197-9}, DOI = {10.1145/3501712.3529734}, PUBLISHER = {ACM}, YEAR = {2022}, MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of IDC '22}, PAGES = {185--195}, ADDRESS = {Braga, Portugal}, }

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%0 Conference Proceedings %A Lin, Grace C. %A Schoenfeld, Ilana %A Thompson, Meredith %A Xia, Yiting %A Uz-Bilgin, Cigdem %A Leech, Kathryn %+ External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations %T ”What Color Are the Fish’s Scales?” Exploring Parents’ and Children’s Natural Interactions with a Child-Friendly Virtual Agent during Storybook Reading : %G eng %U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-181B-C %R 10.1145/3501712.3529734 %D 2022 %B 21st ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference %Z date of event: 2022-06-27 - 2022-06-30 %C Braga, Portugal %B Proceedings of IDC '22 %P 185 - 195 %I ACM %@ 978-1-4503-9197-9

Pan, R., Lei, Y., Li, J., Xie, Z., Yuan, B., & Xia, Y. (2022). Efficient Flow Scheduling in Distributed Deep Learning Training with Echelon Formation. In HotNets ’22, 21st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks. Austin, TX, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/3563766.3564096

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@inproceedings{echelon, TITLE = {Efficient Flow Scheduling in Distributed Deep Learning Training with Echelon Formation}, AUTHOR = {Pan, Rui and Lei, Yiming and Li, Jialong and Xie, Zhiqiang and Yuan, Binhang and Xia, Yiting}, LANGUAGE = {eng}, ISBN = {978-1-4503-9899-2}, DOI = {10.1145/3563766.3564096}, PUBLISHER = {ACM}, YEAR = {2022}, MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$}, BOOKTITLE = {HotNets '22, 21st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks}, PAGES = {93--100}, ADDRESS = {Austin, TX, USA}, }

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%0 Conference Proceedings %A Pan, Rui %A Lei, Yiming %A Li, Jialong %A Xie, Zhiqiang %A Yuan, Binhang %A Xia, Yiting %+ External Organizations Networks and Cloud Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society Networks and Cloud Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society External Organizations External Organizations Networks and Cloud Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society %T Efficient Flow Scheduling in Distributed Deep Learning Training with Echelon Formation : %G eng %U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-1822-3 %R 10.1145/3563766.3564096 %D 2022 %B 21st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks %Z date of event: 2022-11-14 - 2022-11-15 %C Austin, TX, USA %B HotNets '22 %P 93 - 100 %I ACM %@ 978-1-4503-9899-2

2021

Ahuja, S. S., Gupta, V., Dangui, V., Bali, S., Gopalan, A., Zhong, H., … Zhang, Y. (2021). Capacity-efficient and Uncertainty-resilient Backbone Network Planning with Hose. In SIGCOMM ’21. Virtual Event, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/3452296.3472918

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@inproceedings{Ahuja_SIGCOMM21, TITLE = {Capacity-efficient and Uncertainty-resilient Backbone Network Planning with Hose}, AUTHOR = {Ahuja, Satyajeet Singh and Gupta, Varun and Dangui, Vinayak and Bali, Soshant and Gopalan, Abishek and Zhong, Hao and Lapukhov, Petr and Xia, Yiting and Zhang, Ying}, LANGUAGE = {eng}, ISBN = {978-1-4503-8383-7}, DOI = {10.1145/3452296.3472918}, PUBLISHER = {ACM}, YEAR = {2021}, MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$}, BOOKTITLE = {SIGCOMM '21}, EDITOR = {Kuipers, Fernando and Caesar, Matthew}, PAGES = {547--559}, ADDRESS = {Virtual Event, USA}, }

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%0 Conference Proceedings %A Ahuja, Satyajeet Singh %A Gupta, Varun %A Dangui, Vinayak %A Bali, Soshant %A Gopalan, Abishek %A Zhong, Hao %A Lapukhov, Petr %A Xia, Yiting %A Zhang, Ying %+ External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations Networks and Cloud Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society External Organizations %T Capacity-efficient and Uncertainty-resilient Backbone Network Planning with Hose : %G eng %U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-74AF-0 %R 10.1145/3452296.3472918 %D 2021 %B ACM SIGCOMM Conference %Z date of event: 2021-08-23 - 2021-08-27 %C Virtual Event, USA %B SIGCOMM '21 %E Kuipers, Fernando; Caesar, Matthew %P 547 - 559 %I ACM %@ 978-1-4503-8383-7

Xia, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhong, Z., Yan, G., Lim, C., Ahuja, S. S., … Ghobadi, M. (2021). A Social Network Under Social Distancing: Risk-Driven Backbone Management During COVID-19 and Beyond. In Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. Virtual Event: USENIX Association.

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@inproceedings{Xia_NSDI21, TITLE = {A Social Network Under Social Distancing: {R}isk-Driven Backbone Management During {COVID}-19 and Beyond}, AUTHOR = {Xia, Yiting and Zhang, Ying and Zhong, Zhizhen and Yan, Guanqing and Lim, Chiunlin and Ahuja, Satyajeet Singh and Bali, Soshant and Nikolaidis, Alexander and Ghobadi, Kimia and Ghobadi, Manya}, LANGUAGE = {eng}, ISBN = {978-1-939133-21-2}, PUBLISHER = {USENIX Association}, YEAR = {2021}, MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation}, PAGES = {217--231}, ADDRESS = {Virtual Event}, }

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%0 Conference Proceedings %A Xia, Yiting %A Zhang, Ying %A Zhong, Zhizhen %A Yan, Guanqing %A Lim, Chiunlin %A Ahuja, Satyajeet Singh %A Bali, Soshant %A Nikolaidis, Alexander %A Ghobadi, Kimia %A Ghobadi, Manya %+ Networks and Cloud Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations %T A Social Network Under Social Distancing: Risk-Driven Backbone Management During COVID-19 and Beyond : %G eng %U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-74AB-4 %D 2021 %B 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation %Z date of event: 2021-04-12 - 2021-04-14 %C Virtual Event %B Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation %P 217 - 231 %I USENIX Association %@ 978-1-939133-21-2

Zhong, Z., Ghobadi, M., Khaddaj, A., Leach, J., Xia, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2021). ARROW: Restoration-Aware Traffic Engineering. In SIGCOMM ’21. Virtual Event, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/3452296.3472921

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@inproceedings{Zhong_SIGCOMM21, TITLE = {{ARROW}: {R}estoration-Aware Traffic Engineering}, AUTHOR = {Zhong, Zhizhen and Ghobadi, Manya and Khaddaj, Alaa and Leach, Jonathan and Xia, Yiting and Zhang, Ying}, LANGUAGE = {eng}, ISBN = {978-1-4503-8383-7}, DOI = {10.1145/3452296.3472921}, PUBLISHER = {ACM}, YEAR = {2021}, MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$}, BOOKTITLE = {SIGCOMM '21}, EDITOR = {Kuipers, Fernando and Caesar, Matthew}, PAGES = {560--579}, ADDRESS = {Virtual Event, USA}, }

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%0 Conference Proceedings %A Zhong, Zhizhen %A Ghobadi, Manya %A Khaddaj, Alaa %A Leach, Jonathan %A Xia, Yiting %A Zhang, Ying %+ External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations External Organizations Networks and Cloud Systems, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society External Organizations %T ARROW: Restoration-Aware Traffic Engineering : %G eng %U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-7533-A %R 10.1145/3452296.3472921 %D 2021 %B ACM SIGCOMM Conference %Z date of event: 2021-08-23 - 2021-08-27 %C Virtual Event, USA %B SIGCOMM '21 %E Kuipers, Fernando; Caesar, Matthew %P 560 - 579 %I ACM %@ 978-1-4503-8383-7

Previous publications

Xin Huang, Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng, Weaver: Efficient Coflow Scheduling in Heterogeneous Parallel Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing(IPDPS 2020).

Yiting Xia*,Dingming Wu, Xiaoye Steven Sun, Xin Sunny Huang, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, T. S. Eugene Ng, Masking Failures from Application Performance in Data Center Networks with Shareable Backup, 2018 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2018).

Xiaoye Steven Sun, Yiting Xia, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, Xin Sunny Huang, Dingming Wu, T. S. Eugene Ng, Republic: Data Multicast Meets Hybrid Rack-Level Interconnections in Data Centers, IEEE 26th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2018).

Yiting Xia, On Designing Convertible Data Center Network Architectures, PhD thesis, Rice University, February 2018.

Yiting Xia, Xin Sunny Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng, Stop Rerouting! Enabling ShareBackup for Failure Recovery in Data Center Networks, 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2017).

Yiting Xia, Xiaoye Steven Sun, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, Dingming Wu, Xin Sunny Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng, A Tale of Two Topologies: Exploring Convertible Data Center Network Architectures with Flat-tree, 2017 ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM 2017).

Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng, Flat-tree: A Convertible Data Center Network Architecture from Clos to Random Graph, 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2016).

Dingming Wu, Xiaoye Sun, Yiting Xia, Xin Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng, HyperOptics: A High Throughput and Low Latency Multicast Architecture for Datacenters, 8th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2016).

Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng, Xiaoye Steven Sun, Blast: Accelerating High-Performance Data Analytics Applications by Optical Multicast, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2015).

Yiting Xia, Mike Schlansker, T. S. Eugene Ng, Jean Tourrilhes, Enabling Topological Flexibility for Data Centers Using OmniSwitch, 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2015).

Howard Wang, Yiting Xia, Keren Bergman, T. S. Eugene Ng, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, λ^group: Using Optics to Take Group Data Delivery in the Datacenter to the Next Degree, Rice University Technical Report TR14-01, February 2014.

Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng, A Cross-Layer SDN Control Plane for Optical Multicast-Featured Datacenters,2014 ACM Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN 2014).

Payman Samadi, Howard Wang, David Calhoun, Yiting Xia, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, T. S. Eugene Ng, Keren Bergman, An Optical Programmable Network Architecture Supporting Iterative Multicast for Data-intensive Applications, IEEE 3rd Optical Interconnects Conference (OIC 2014).

Yiting Xia, Control Plane Design and Performance Analysis for Optical Multicast-Capable Datacenter Networks, Master’s Thesis, Rice University, April 2014.

Howard Wang, Yiting Xia, Keren Bergman, T. S. Eugene Ng, Sambit Sahu, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Rethinking the Physical Layer of Data Center Networks of the Next Decade: Using Optics to Enable Efficient *-Cast Connectivity, ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR), July 2013.

Howard Wang, Yiting Xia, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Sambit Sahu, T. S. Eugene Ng, Keren Bergman, End-to-End Demonstration of Optical Multicasting Over a Dynamically-Reconfigurable Hybrid Data Center Network Architecture, 2013 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series.

Wei Liang, Jingping Bi, Yiting Xia, Chengchen Hu, RPIM: Inferring BGP Routing Policies in ISP Networks, 2011 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011).

Wei Liang, Jingping Bi, Wenzhong Li, Yiting Xia, Towards Inferring Inter-Domain Routing Policies in ISP Networks, in IEICE Transactions on Communications, November 2011.

Research Interests

Data center network
Wide area network
Optical network
Software-defined network
Network measurement
Network management
Cloud computing
Data parallel systems

Honours and Awards

Ken Kennedy-Cray Fellowship
Pollard Fellowship
N2Women Rising Star Award in 2021

Invited Talks & Key Notes

Towards High-Performance and Power-Effcient Network Infrastructure for Cloud Computing, 8th Winter Seminar Series at Sharif University of Technology, April 2023
Towards High-Performance and Power-Effcient Network Infrastructure for Cloud Computing, Peking University, March 2023
Towards High-Performance and Power-Effcient Network Infrastructure for Cloud Computing, Tsinghua University, March 2023
Towards Deployable Optical Data Center Networks with Unified Routing, MPI-SWS Lightning Tutorials Series, July 2022
Towards Deployable Optical Data Center Networks with Unified Routing, Huawei InnovWave HCIO2022, June 2022
A Social Network under Social Distancing – Experience and Insights during COVID-19 on Risk-Driven Backbone Management, Saarland Informatics Campus Lecture Series, February 2021
A Social Network under Social Distancing – Experience and Insights during COVID-19 on Risk-Driven Backbone Management, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, October 2020

Reviewing Activity & Workshop / Conference positions

Co-chair N2Women Workshop 2022
TPC member of SOSR'21
TPC member of ICNP'21
TPC member of SOSR’19 Demo and Poster session
Reviewer of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC’19)
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 2019
TPC member of IEEE Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics (EECSI’18)
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Communications 2018
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 2018
TPC member of IEEE IC on Computer Intelligent Systems and Networking (ICCISN’17)
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2017
TPC member of IEEE Global Summit on Computer and Information
Technology (GSCIT’16)
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 2016
Reviewer of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD’16)
TPC member of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Cryptography (ICCCC’15)
TPC member of IEEE Global Summit on Computer and Information Technology (GSCIT’15)
Reviewer of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD’15)
External reviewer of OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking 2013

Teachings

At Saarland University and MPI:

Summer 2023: Distributed Systems; Co-lecturer
Summer 2022: Data Networks; Co-lecturer
Summer 2021: Distributed Systems; Co-lecturer
Winter 2021: Advanced Topics in Data Networks; Co-lecturer
Fall 2020: Hot Topics in Data Networks Seminar; Lecturer

At Rice University:

Spring 2014, Guest Lecturer, COMP429 Introduction to Computer Networks
Fall 2014, Guest Lecturer, COMP526 Big Data Systems
Fall 2014, Teaching Assistant, COMP425 Computer Systems Architecture
Spring 2014, Teaching Assistant, COMP429 Introduction to Computer Networks
Fall 2013, Teaching Assistant, COMP221 Introduction to Computer Systems
Spring 2013, Teaching Assistant, COMP429 Introduction to Computer Networks
Fall 2012, Teaching Assistant, COMP221 Introduction to Computer Systems

Recent Positions

September 2020 - present:
Tenure-track faculty, MPI-INF, Saarbrücken, Germany

April 2018 - September 2020:
Research Scientist, Facebook, Menlo Park, USA

Education

April 2014 - February 2018:
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rice University

August 2011 - April 2014:
M.S. in Computer Science, Rice University

September 2007 - June 2011:
B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Queen Mary University of London