Xinchen Wan

Network Engineer and Researcher, ByteDance, Bellevue, WA

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Office: 601 108th Ave NE

Bellevue WA 98004

I am a Network Engineer and Researcher at ByteDance, working on building next-generation AI network. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2025, supervised by Prof. Kai Chen. Before that, I received my B.Eng degree in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2018, supervised by Prof. Song Wu.

Research Interests

  • AI Network
  • Machine Learning System
  • Hardware Acceleration
  • Datacenter Networking

News

Sep 12, 2025 One co-authored paper Taurus is accepted at CoNEXT 2025.
Jul 12, 2025 Our short paper Hermod is accepted at SIGCOMM 2025.
Jul 12, 2025 One co-authored paper MixNet is accepted at SIGCOMM 2025.
Apr 25, 2025 One co-authored paper Pallas is accepted at ATC 2025.
Feb 11, 2025 PhD thesis defense passed!

Selected Publications

  1. __CoNEXT__
    Taurus: Towards A High-Performance and Generic Congestion Control Framework for Datacenter Networks
    Luyang Li, Heng Pan, Pengyi Zhang, Kai Lv, Zilong Wang, Xinchen Wan, and 11 more authors
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) , 2025
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  2. __SIGCOMM__
    MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training
    Xudong Liao, Yijun Sun, Han Tian, Xinchen Wan, Yilun Jin, Zilong Wang, and 10 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) , 2025
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  3. ____ATC____
    Towards Optimal Rack-scale μs-level CPU Scheduling through In-Network Workload Shaping
    Xudong Liao, Han Tian, Xinchen Wan, Chaoliang Zeng, Hao Wang, Junxue Zhang, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) , 2025
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  4. __ASPLOS__
    Harmonia: A Unified Framework for Heterogeneous FPGA Acceleration in the Cloud
    Luyang Li, Heng Pan, Xinchen Wan, Kai Lv, Zilong Wang, Qian Zhao, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) , 2025
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  5. __INFOCOM__
    A Generic and Efficient Communication Framework for Message-level In-Network Computing
    Xinchen Wan, Luyang Li, Han Tian, Xudong Liao, Xinyang Huang, Chaoliang Zeng, and 7 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) , 2025
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  6. __ASPLOS__
    Design and Operation of Shared Machine Learning Clusters on Campus
    Kaiqiang Xu, Decang Sun, Hao Wang, Zhenghang Ren, Xinchen Wan, Xudong Liao, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) , 2025
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  7. __EuroSys__
    Achieving Fairness Generalizability for Learning-based Congestion Control with Jury
    Han Tian, Xudong Liao, Decang Sun, Chaoliang Zeng, Yilun Jin, Junxue Zhang, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 20th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) , 2025
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  8. __SIGCOMM__
    Fast, Scalable, and Accurate Rate Limiter for RDMA NICs
    Zilong Wang, Xinchen Wan, Luyang Li, Yijun Sun, Peng Xie, Xin Wei, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) , 2024
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  9. __EuroSys__
    Astraea: Towards Fair and Efficient Learning-based Congestion Control
    Xudong Liao, Han Tian, Chaoliang Zeng, Xinchen Wan, and Kai Chen
    In Proceedings of the 19th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) , 2024
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  10. ___NSDI___
    Accelerating Neural Recommendation Training with Embedding Scheduling
    Chaoliang Zeng, Xudong Liao, Xiaodian Cheng, Han Tian, Xinchen Wan, Hao Wang, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) , 2024
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  11. ___NSDI___
    Towards Domain-Specific Network Transport for Distributed DNN Training
    Hao Wang, Han Tian, Jingrong Chen, Xinchen Wan, Jiacheng Xia, Gaoxiong Zeng, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) , 2024
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  12. __SIGMOD__
    Scalable and Efficient Full-Graph GNN Training for Large Graphs
    Xinchen Wan, Kaiqiang Xu, Xudong Liao, Yilun Jin, Kai Chen, and Xin Jin
    In Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD) , 2023
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  13. ___NSDI___
    SRNIC: A scalable architecture for RDMA NICs
    Zilong Wang, Layong Luo, Qingsong Ning, Chaoliang Zeng, Wenxue Li, Xinchen Wan, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) , 2023
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  14. ___ICNP___
    DGS: Communication-Efficient Graph Sampling for Distributed GNN Training
    Xinchen Wan, Kai Chen, and Yiming Zhang
    In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) , 2022
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