{"id":734,"date":"2024-03-14T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=734"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:59:01","slug":"lei-huang","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/people\/lei-huang\/","title":{"rendered":"Lei Huang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.meta.com\/infrastructure\/\">Systems and Infrastructure group<\/a> at Meta for three summers and was a visiting scholar with the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/data-systems-group\/\">Data Systems Group<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/dcsg.cs.umn.edu\/\">DCSG group<\/a> working on edge computing systems.<\/p>\n<h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Koala: Non-disruptive Reconfiguration for Long-running Stateful Dataflows<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disaggregated State Management in Apache Flink\u00ae 2.0<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CAPSys: Contention-aware Task Placement for Data Stream Processing<\/strong>. Yuanli Wang*, Lei Huang*, Zikun Wang, Vasiliki Kalavri, Ibrahim Matta. European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23552,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23552"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/734\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}