Yuqing Zhu is working as an assistant research professor in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Before, she worked at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Tsinghua University. Her research interests include databases, distributed systems, and large scale analytics.

Research Projects

  • IGinX: Intelligent enGINe X, SQL-based multistore supporting in-process integrated Python function computation.
  • BestConfig: Automatically finding better configuration settings for a specific large-scale system under a given application workload.
  • ACIA Transactions (previously SHAFT): Transactions with Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Availability properties.

Selected Publications

  • Lingzhe Zhang, Yuqing Zhu, Yanzhe An, Yuan Zi, Jianmin Wang. The optimization problem of system load balancing and its solution for industrial Internet-of-Things data management.. SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis, 2024, 54(10): 2343–2367. DOI: 10.1360/SSI-2023-0211.

  • Yanzhe An, Yue Su, Yuqing Zhu, Jianmin Wang. TVStore: automatically bounding time series storage via Time-Varying compression.. In 20th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 22), pp. 83-100. 2022.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Philip S. Yu, Guolei Yi, Mengying Guo, Wenlong Ma, Jianxun Liu, Yungang Bao. Logless One-Phase Commit Made Possible for Highly-Available Datastores[PDF]. Distributed and Parallel Databases 38 (2020): 101-126.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Jianxun Liu. ClassyTune: A Performance Auto-Tuner for Systems in the Cloud.[PDF]. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 10, no. 1 (2019): 234-246. doi: 10.1109/TCC.2019.2936567.

  • Wenlong Ma, Yuqing Zhu, Cheng Li, Mengying Guo, Yungang Bao. BiloKey : A Scalable Bi-Index Locality-Aware In-Memory Key-Value Store[PDF]. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 1528-1540, 1 July 2019.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Jianxun Liu, Mengying Guo, Yungang Bao, Wenlong Ma, Zhuoyue Liu, Kunpeng Song, Yingchun Yang. BestConfig: Tapping the Performance Potential of Systems via Automatic Configuration Tuning[PDF]. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2017 (SoCC’17).

  • Yuqing Zhu, Jianxun Liu, Mengying Guo, Yungang Bao. ACTS in Need: Automatic Configuration Tuning with Scalability[PDF]. Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys’17).

  • Yuqing Zhu, Yilei Wang. Improving Transaction Processing Performance By Consensus Reduction[PDF]. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE BigData, 2015.

  • Yuqing Zhu. Non-Blocking One-Phase Commit Made Possible for Distributed Transactions over Replicated Data (poster description). 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE BigData, 2015.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Yilei Wang. SHAFT: Serializable, Highly Available and Fault Tolerant Concurrency Control For Large-Scale Datastores (PDF). The 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS, 2015.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Jianfeng Zhan, Chuliang Weng, Raghunath Nambiar, Jinchao Zhang, Xingzhen Chen, Lei Wang. BigOP: Generating Comprehensive Big Data Workloads as a Benchmarking Framework[PDF]. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA, 2014.

  • Lei Wang, Jianfeng Zhan, Chunjie Luo, Yuqing Zhu, Qiang Yang, Yongqiang He, Wanling Gao, Zhen Jia, Yingjie Shi, Shujie Zhang, Cheng Zhen, Gang Lu, Kent Zhan, Xiaona Li, Bizhu Qiu. BigDataBench: a Big Data Benchmark Suite from Internet Services. IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture, HPCA, 2014.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Philip S. Yu, Jianmin WANG. RECODS: Replica Consistency-On-Demand Store (demo). IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE, 2013.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Philip S. Yu, Jianmin Wang. Malleable Flow for Time-Bounded Replica Consistency Control (poster, poster description). USENIX Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation, OSDI, 2012.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Jianmin Wang, Chaokun Wang. Ripple: A publish/subscribe service for multidata item updates propagation in the cloud (link). J. Network and Computer Applications, JNCA, 2011.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Jianmin Wang. Client-centric consistency formalization and verification for system with large-scale distributed data storage (link). Future Generation Comp. Syst., FGCS, 2010.

  • Yuqing Zhu, Naiqiao Du, Hao Tian, Jianmin Wang. laUD-MS: An Extensible System for Unstructured Data Management. IEEE Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb, 2010.

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Technical Reports

  • Yuqing Zhu. SHAFT: Serializable, Highly Available and Fault Tolerant Concurrency Control in the Cloud[PDF]. July, 2013.

  • Yuqing Zhu. 10 Observations on Google Cluster Trace + 2 Measures for Cluster Utilization Enhancement[PDF]. May, 2015

Research Grants

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61******)
    State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant No. 2014********)

Professional Services

  • Review for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems; Eurosys'15 (shadow PC); Computer; Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing; Journal of Network and Computer Applications; Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International; International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing; BPOE-2015, etc.

  • Organizing Committee & Session Chair, The 2nd Workshop on Hot Topics on Data Centers (HotDC 2017), October 18, 2017, Hefei, China.

  • Session Chair, The 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2015), December 15, 2015, Melbourne, Australia

  • Publicity Chair, The Fourth Workshop of Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware (BPOE-4), In conjunction with ASPLOS 2014, March 1, 2014, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

  • PC Co-chair, The Second Workshop of Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware of Big Data Systems and Application (BPOE-2), In conjunction with CCF HPC China 2013, October 31, 2013, Guilin, Guangxi, China

  • Publicity Chair, The First Workshop of Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware of Big Data Systems and Applications (BPOE 2013), In conjunction with IEEE Big Data Conference 2013, October 8, 2013, Silicon Valley, CA, USA

  • Session Chair, HPCA 2013 Tutorial of High Volume Computing: The Motivations, Metrics, and Benchmarks Suites for Data Center Computer Systems, Shenzhen, 2013.