Lei Huang

I am a PhD student advised by Vasiliki Kalavri and Abraham Matta at Boston University. I am broadly interested in distributed systems and networking, with a current focus on building efficient and disaggregated stream processing systems. I was a PhD intern with the Systems and Infrastructure group at Meta for three summers and was a visiting scholar with the Data Systems Group at the University of Waterloo. Before joining BU, I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Minnesota, where I was a research assistant at DCSG group working on edge computing systems.

Selected Publications

Koala: Non-disruptive Reconfiguration for Long-running Stateful Dataflows. Lei Huang, Sakshi Sharma, Chenxu Yu, Zikun Wang, Yuanli Wang, Zichen Zhu, John Liagouris, Vasiliki Kalavri. USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2027.

Disaggregated State Management in Apache Flink® 2.0. Yuan Mei, Zhaoqian Lan, Lei Huang, Yanfei Lei, Han Yin, Rui Xia, Kaitian Hu, Paris Carbone, Vasiliki Kalavri, Feng Wang. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2025.

CAPSys: Contention-aware Task Placement for Data Stream Processing. Yuanli Wang*, Lei Huang*, Zikun Wang, Vasiliki Kalavri, Ibrahim Matta. European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2025.