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I am a Senior Researcher in the Networking Infrastructure Group at Microsoft Research Asia. Prior to this, I completed my Ph.D. at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Hong Xu, and received my bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Material Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

My research is primarily concentrated on systems and networking for cloud and next-generation AI infrastructure (particularly programmable dataplanes such as SmartNICs/DPUs), with a strong emphasis on deploying these technologies in real-world production environments to address practical challenges.

Education

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    Ph.D.
    Aug. 2022 - Sep. 2026
  • University of Science and Technology of China
    Second Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology
    July 2020 - June 2022
    Bachelor of Natural Science in Material Physics
    July 2016 - June 2020

Experience

  • Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing
    Senior Researcher
    Sep. 2026 - present
  • Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing
    Research Intern
    June 2024 - Dec. 2025
  • Microsoft Research Asia, Shanghai
    Research Intern
    Nov. 2021 - June 2022

Selected Publications

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Offloading Cloud Network Services at Production Scale with SONiC DASH SmartSwitch

Offloading Cloud Network Services at Production Scale with SONiC DASH SmartSwitch

Shaofeng Wu, Zhixiong Niu, Riff Jiang, Lawrence Lee, Junhua Zhai, Ze Gan, Vasundhara Volam, Prabhat Aravind, Prince Sunny, Prince George, Qi Luo, Evan Langlais, Soumya Tiwari, Venkat Satish Katta, Weixi Chen, Rishiraj Hazarika, Sachin Jain, Deven Jagasia, Michal Zygmunt, Avijit Gupta, Neeraj Motwani, Pranjal Shrivastava, Qiang Su, Anil Reddy Pannala, Kristina Moore, James Grantham, Anupam Pandey, Xin Liu, Guohan Lu, Gerald De Grace, Rishabh Tewari, Lihua Yuan, Erica Lan, Deepak Bansal, Dave Maltz, Yongqiang Xiong, Hong Xu

23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'26) 2026 Conference Industrial TrackNetworkCommunity Award

Performance Prediction of On-NIC Network Functions with Multi-Resource Contention and Traffic Awareness

Performance Prediction of On-NIC Network Functions with Multi-Resource Contention and Traffic Awareness

Shaofeng Wu*, Qiang Su*, Zhixiong Niu, Hong Xu (* equal contribution)

ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2025 ConferenceNetwork

Meili: Enabling SmartNIC as a Service in the Cloud

Meili: Enabling SmartNIC as a Service in the Cloud

Qiang Su, Shaofeng Wu, Zhixiong Niu, Ran Shu, Peng Cheng, Yongqiang Xiong, Zaoxing Liu, Hong Xu

2024 PreprintNetworkSystem

Honors & Awards

  • Community Award, USENIX NSDI'262026
  • Stars of Tomorrow, MSRA2026