About Me

I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Rice University in 2019. At Rice, I worked with Eugene Ng in BOLD (Big Data and Optical Lightpaths Driven Lab). My research interests are in networks, systems, and big data.

Before joining Rice, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2013. I have also interned at Google (2016, 2015) and Morgan Stanley (2012).

I grew up in Guangzhou (a.k.a. Canton). Besides computer science, food (especially "dim sum" and Cantonese cuisine), arts, and sports never fail to fascinate me. I speak Cantonese (natively), English (professionally), and Mandarin Chinese (poorly). Además, I am learning Spanish.

Publication

• Weaver: Efficient Coflow Scheduling in Heterogeneous Parallel Networks

  Xin Sunny Huang, Yiting Xia, T. S. Eugene Ng
  In 34th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
  IEEE IPDPS 2020
  paper code slides

• Green, Yellow, Yield: End-Host Traffic Scheduling for Distributed Deep Learning with TensorLights

  Xin Sunny Huang, Ang Chen, T. S. Eugene Ng
  In 5th IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Big Data and Cloud Computing
  IEEE HPBDC 2019
  paper code slides

• Exploiting Inter-Flow Relationship for Coflow Placement in Datacenters Best Paper Runner-up

  Xin Sunny Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng
  In 1st Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking
  ACM APNet 2017
  paper code slides

• Sunflow: Efficient Optical Circuit Scheduling for Coflows

  Xin Sunny Huang, Xiaoye Steven Sun, T. S. Eugene Ng
  In 12th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
  ACM CoNEXT 2016
  paper code slides

• Masking Failures from Application Performance in Data Center Networks with Shareable Backup

  Dingming Wu, Yiting Xia, Xiaoye Steven Sun, Xin Sunny Huang, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, T. S. Eugene Ng
  ACM SIGCOMM 2018
  paper

• Stop Rerouting! Enabling ShareBackup for Failure Recovery in Data Center Networks

  Yiting Xia, Xin Sunny Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng
  In 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
  ACM HotNets 2017
  paper

• A Tale of Two Topologies: Exploring Convertible Data Center Network Architectures with Flat-tree

  Yiting Xia, Xiaoye Steven Sun, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, Dingming Wu, Xin Sunny Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng
  ACM SIGCOMM 2017
  paper slides

• Republic: Data Multicast Meets Hybrid Rack-Level Interconnections in Data Center

  Xiaoye Steven Sun, Yiting Xia, Simbarashe Dzinamarira, Xin Sunny Huang, Dingming Wu, T. S. Eugene Ng
  In 26th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
  IEEE ICNP 2018
  paper

• HyperOptics: A High Throughput and Low Latency Multicast Architecture for Datacenters

  Dingming Wu, Xiaoye Sun, Yiting Xia, Xin Huang, T. S. Eugene Ng
  In 8th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing
  USENIX HotCloud 2016
  paper slides

Teaching

Fall '16, '15, '14	COMP 429, TA	Introduction to Computer Networks
Spring '15	COMP 421, TA	Operating Systems
Spring '14	COMP 221, TA	Introduction to Computer Systems

Courses

Spring '15	COMP 411	Principles of Programming Languagess
Spring '15	COMP 422	Parallel Computing
Fall '14	COMP 440	Artificial Intelligence
Fall '14	COMP 425	Computer Systems Architecture
Spring '14	COMP 482	Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Spring '14	COMP 571	Bioinformatics: Sequence Analysis
Spring '14	COMP 421	Operating Systems
Fall '13	COMP 429	Introduction to Computer Networks
Fall '13	COMP 524	Mobile and Wireless Networking
Fall '13	ELEC 537	Communication Networks

Misc

• Creating an effective poster, by John Wilkes
• NDP in annimation (SIGCOMM '17 best paper), by Mark Handley, et al.
• Course website: Database Systems, by Andy Pavlo
• Readings in Database Systems (2015)
• Course website: Large-Scale Systems, by Matei Zaharia
• I Loved Graduate School, by Peter Bailis
• Academics, we need to talk. (or "Put your industry-relevant project into the big picture"), by Matt Welsh

Contact Me

xinh [AT] alumni [DOT] rice [DOT] edu