CTO of Conflux
Email: ming@conflux-chain.org
I am now a founding member of Conflux. Before joining the Conflux team, I was a senior researcher at Systems Research Group in Microsoft Research Asia. My expertise is in the design and implementation of distributed systems. I designed and implemented large-scale and highly efficient distributed machine learning systems which were applied in Microsoft products. I earned Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, and bachelor degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2002. My major research interests include distributed transaction processing systems, graph computing engines, and artificial intelligence platforms. I have publications on top conferences in computer system area, such as SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, ATC, EuroSys, SoCC, VLDB, etc. I served as Program Committee Members of OSDI, ASPLOS, HotDep, MiddleWare, and EuroSys, and also the Publication Chair of SOSP'17.
My research interests include distributed system, transaction processing system, blockchain system, distributed graph engine, machine learning, and deep learning framework, etc.
Mind the Cost of Scaffold! Benign Clients May Even Become Accomplices of Backdoor Attack. Xingshuo Han, Xuanye Zhang, Xiang Lan, Haozhao Wang, Shengmin Xu, Shen Ren, Jason Zeng, Ming Wu, Michael Heinrich, Tianwei Zhang. In proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
CCAgent: Coordinating Collaborative Data Scaling for Operating System Agents via Web3. Liang Chen, Haozhe Zhao, Yinzhen Huang, Yang Luo, Tsekai Lin, Weichu Xie, Ruoyu Wu, Peiyi Wang, Runxin Xu, Ming Wu, Baobao Chang. In proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2025
HEMVM: A Heterogeneous Blockchain Framework for Interoperable Virtual Machines. Vladyslav Nekriach, Sidi Mohamed Beillahi, Chenxing Li, Peilun Li, Ming Wu, Andreas Veneris, Fan Long. In proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Volume 9, Issue OOPSLA2, 2025
dl²: Detecting Communication Deadlocks in Deep Learning Jobs. Yanjie Gao, Jiyu Luo, Haoxiang Lin, Hongyu Zhang, Ming Wu, Mao Yang. FSE 2025 - Industry Track
Reduction Fusion for Optimized Distributed Data-Parallel Computations via Inverse Recomputation. Haoxiang Lin, Yang Wang, Yanjie Gao, Hongyu Zhang, Ming Wu, Mao Yang. FSE 2025 - Ideas, Visions, and Reflections Track
LVMT: An Efficient Authenticated Storage for Blockchain. Chenxing Li, Sidi Mohamed Beillahi, Guang Yang, Ming Wu, Wei Xu, Fan Long. In proceedings of OSDI 2023
Mercury: Fast Transaction Broadcast in High Performance Blockchain System. Mingxun Zhou, Yilin Han, Liyi Zeng, Peilun Li, Fan Long, Dong Zhou, Ivan Beschastnikh, Ming Wu. IEEE INFOCOM 2023
Utilizing parallelism in smart contracts on decentralized blockchains by taming application-inherent conflicts. Péter Garamvölgyi, Yuxi Liu, Dong Zhou, Fan Long, Ming Wu. In proceedings of ICSE 2022
Refty: Refinement Types for Valid Deep Learning Models. Yanjie Gao, Zhengxian Li, Haoxiang Lin, Hongyu Zhang, Ming Wu, Mao Yang. In proceedings of ICSE 2022
Shrec: Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay in High-Throughput Blockchain Systems. Yilin Han, Chenxing Li, Peilun Li, Ming Wu, Dong Zhou, Fan Long. In proceedings of SoCC 2020
A Decentralized Blockchain with High Throughput and Fast Confirmation. Chenxing Li, Peilun Li, Dong Zhou, Zhe Yang, Ming Wu, Guang Yang, Wei Xu, Fan Long, and Andrew Chi-Chih Yao. In proceedings of USENIX ATC 2020
NeuGraph: Parallel Deep Neural Network Computation on Large Graphs. Lingxiao Ma, Zhi Yang, Youshan Miao, Jilong Xue, Ming Wu, Lidong Zhou, and Yafei Dai. In proceedings of USENIX ATC 2019
Efficient and Effective Sparse LSTM on FPGA with Bank-Balanced Sparsity. Shijie Cao, Chen Zhang, Zhuliang Yao, Wencong Xiao, Lanshun Nie, Dechen Zhang, Yunxin Liu, Ming Wu, and Lintao Zhang. In proceedings of FPGA 2019
Fast Distributed Deep Learning over RDMA. Jilong Xue, Youshan Miao, Cheng Chen, Ming Wu, Lintao Zhang, and Lidong Zhou. In proceedings of EuroSys 2019
SDPaxos: Building Efficient Semi-Decentralized Geo-Replicated State Machines. Hanyu Zhao, Zhi Yang, Quanlu Zhang, Ming Wu, and Yafei Dai. In proceedings of SoCC 2018
TuX2: Distributed Graph Computation for Machine Learning. Wencong Xiao, Jilong Xue, Youshan Miao, Zhen Li, Cheng Chen, Ming Wu, Wei Li, and Lidong Zhou. In proceedings of NSDI 2017
GraM: Scaling Graph Computation to The Trillions. Ming Wu, Fan Yang, Jilong Xue, Wencong Xiao, Youshan Miao, Lan Wei, Haoxiang Lin, Yafei Dai, and Lidong Zhou. In proceedings of SoCC 2015
Apollo: Scalable and Coordinated Scheduling for Cloud-Scale Computing. Eric Boutin, Jaliya Ekanayake, Wei Lin, Bing Shi, Jingren Zhou, Zhengping Qian, Ming Wu, and Lidong Zhou. In proceedings of OSDI 2014
Chronos: A Graph Engine for Temporal Graph Analysis. Wentao Han, Youshan Miao, Kaiwei Li, Ming Wu, Fan Yang, Lidong Zhou, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Wenguang Chen, and Enhong Chen. In proceedings of Eurosys 2014
Tango: Distributed Data Structures over a Shared Log. Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi, Ted Wobber, Ming Wu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Michael Wei, John D. Davis, Sriram Rao, Tao Zou, and Aviad Zuck. In proceedings of SOSP 2013
Kineograph: taking the pulse of a fast-changing and connected world. Raymond Cheng, Ji Hong, Aapo Kyrola, Youshan Miao, Xuetian Weng, Ming Wu, Fan Yang, Lidong Zhou, Feng Zhao, and Enhong Chen. In proceedings of Eurosys 2012
Managing Large Graphs on Multi-Cores with Graph Awareness. Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ming Wu, Xuetian Weng, Frank McSherry, Lidong Zhou, and Maya Haridasan. In proceedings of USENIX ATC 2012
Practical Software Model Checking via Dynamic Interface Reduction. Huayang Guo, Ming Wu, Gang Hu, Lidong Zhou, Junfeng Yang, and Lintao Zhang. In proceedings of SOSP 2011
Optimistic Concurrency Control by Melding Trees. Philip Bernstein, Colin Reid, Ming Wu, and Xinhao Yuan. In proceedings of VLDB 2011
Language-Based Replay via Data Flow Cut. Ming Wu, Fan Long, Xi Wang, Zhilei Xu, Haoxiang Lin, Xuezheng Liu, Zhenyu Guo, Huayang Guo, Lidong Zhou, and Zheng Zhang. In proceedings of FSE 2010
FD-Buffer: A Buffer Manager for Databases on Flash Disks. Bingsheng He, Sai Tung On, Yinan Li, Ming Wu, Qiong Luo, and Xu Jianliang. Short paper in CIKM 2010
MODIST: Transparent Model Checking of Unmodified Distributed Systems. Junfeng Yang, Tisheng Chen, Ming Wu, Zhilei Xu, Xuezheng Liu, Haoxiang Lin, Mao Yang, Fan Long, Lintao Zhang, and Lidong Zhou. In proceedings of NSDI 2009
MPIWiz: Subgroup Reproducible Replay of MPI Applications. Ruini Xue, Xuezheng Liu, Ming Wu, Zhenyu Guo, Wenguang Chen, Weimin Zheng, Zheng Zhang, and Geoffrey M. Voelker. In proceedings of PPoPP 2009
Corey: An Operating System for Many Cores. Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, and Yandong Mao, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris, and Aleksey Pesterev, Lex Stein, Ming Wu, Yuehua Dai, Yang Zhang, and Zheng Zhang. In proceedings of OSDI 2008
R2: An Application-Level Kernel for Record and Replay. Zhenyu Guo, Xi Wang, Jian Tang, Xuezheng Liu, Zhilei Xu, Ming Wu, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Zheng Zhang. In Proceedings of OSDI 2008
D3S: Debugging Deployed Distributed Systems. Xuezheng Liu, Zhenyu Guo, Xi Wang, Feibo Chen, Xiaochen Lian, Jian Tang, Ming Wu, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Zheng Zhang. In Proceedings of NSDI 2008
Task-pushing: A Scalable Parallel GC Marking Algorithm without Synchronization Operations. Ming Wu and Xiao-Feng Li. In Proceedings of IPDPS 2007
Distributed Graph Computation Meets Machine Learning. Wencong Xiao, Jilong Xue, Youshan Miao, Zhen Li, Cheng Chen, Ming Wu, Wei Li, and Lidong Zhou. In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems ( Volume: 31 , Issue: 7 , July 1 2020 )