{"id":24193,"date":"2024-08-16T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/?page_id=24193"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:10:32","slug":"waynexzhou","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/waynexzhou\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiaobo ZHOU"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"24193\" class=\"elementor elementor-24193\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9751c2d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9751c2d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f82e374\" data-id=\"f82e374\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-85da1b9 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"85da1b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BIO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-44921\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BIO.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BIO-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-789da43 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"789da43\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text );font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif\"><b>XIAOBO ZHOU<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text );font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif;font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight )\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text );font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif;font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight )\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Zhou\u2019s research is centered on advancing system support for data-intensive applications, particularly in the realms of cloud computing and systems for machine learning. He focuses on optimizing performance, resource efficiency, and system reliability, all of which are critical for scaling modern computational workloads.<\/p>\n<p>He served as the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (2020-2023).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cloud Computing and Virtulization<\/li>\n<li>Systems for Machine Learning<\/li>\n<li>High-Performance Distributed Computing<\/li>\n<li>Memory Systems and OS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PhD Student Opportunities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Prof. Zhou has supervised over a dozen Ph.D. students, with graduates securing tenure-track faculty positions at research-oriented academic institutions. He is looking for self-motivated PhD students who have solid background and interests in Operating System, Computer Architecture, Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Systems ML-related fields. Please send him an email with your CV.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[OSDI26] Unleash All Cores: Scalable Asymmetric-aware Scheduling for DNN Inference on Mobile CPUs, USENIX OSDI, 2026<\/li>\n<li>[PPoPP26] JanusQuant: Accurate and Efficient 2-bit KV Cache Quantization for Long-Context Inference, ACM PPoPP, 2026<\/li>\n<li>[PPoPP25] Harnessing Inter-GPU Shared Memory for Seamless MoE&nbsp;Communication-Computation Fusion, ACM PPoPP, 2025<\/li>\n<li>[SC25] MXBLAS: Accelerating 8-bit Deep Learning with a Unified Micro-Scaled GEMM Library, ACM\/IEEE SC, 2025<\/li>\n<li>[SC25] HyTiS: Hybrid Tile Scheduling for GPU GEMM with Enhanced Wave Utilization and Cache Locality, ACM\/IEEE SC, 2025<\/li>\n<li>[ATC25] Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication on Tensor Cores with Asynchronous and Balanced Kernel Optimization, USENIX ATC, 2025<\/li>\n<li>[SC24] Scaling New Heights: Transformative Cross-GPU Sampling for Training Billion-Edge Graphs, ACM\/IEEE SC, 2024<\/li>\n<li>[SC24] MCFuser: High-Performance and Rapid Fusion of Memory-bound Compute-intensive Operators, ACM\/IEEE SC, 2024<\/li>\n<li>[SC24] Accelerating Distributed DLRM Training with Optimized TT Decomposition and Micro-Batching, ACM\/IEEE SC, 2024<\/li>\n<li>[ATC24] Expeditious High-Concurrency MicroVM SnapStart in Persistent Memory with an Augmented Hypervisor, USENIX ATC, 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: var(--h3_typography-font-family);line-height: var(--h3_typography-line-height);letter-spacing: normal;font-size: var(--h3_typography-font-size);color: var(--h3_typography-color);margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px\">Contact Details<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;margin: 0px 0px 20px;color: #555555;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Faculty of Science and Technology<br>University of Macau, E11<br>Avenida da Universidade, Taipa,<br>Macau SAR<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;margin: 0px 0px 20px;color: #555555;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Room: E21-6012e<br>Telephone: 8822-4137<br>Fax: (853) 8822-2426<br>Email: waynexzhou at um.edu.mo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c73ff1c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c73ff1c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/plugins\/elementor\/assets\/images\/placeholder.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;XIAOBO ZHOU&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Prof. Zhou\u2019s research is centered on advancing system support for data-intensive applications, particularly in the realms of cloud computing and systems for machine learning. He focuses on optimizing performance, resource efficiency, and system reliability, all of which are critical for scaling modern computational workloads. He served as the chair of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/waynexzhou\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Xiaobo ZHOU&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-24193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24193"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60165,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24193\/revisions\/60165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}