Dan Li (李丹)

IEEE Fellow

Professor, Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University

Email: tolidan@tsinghua.edu.cn

Address: 4-104, FIT Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

Biography | Services | Teaching | Publications

I am continuously looking for highly motivated postdoc/phd/master/intern students to do research on computer networks and systems. Those who want to join my group please send your resume to my emailbox.

Biography

I am a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. I lead the NASP (Network Architecture, System and Protocol) research lab. I received my Ph.D in computer science from Tsinghua University in 2007. My research area is computer networks and systems, with focus on data center network and trustworthy Internet architecture. I have published more than 100 technical papers in referred conferences and journals, including ACM SIGCOMM, USENIX NSDI, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, etc. I served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, a general co-chair for IEEE LANMAN 2015 and APNet 2018, a TPC co-chair for IEEE LANMAN 2014 and APNet 2025, as well as a TPC member for ACM SIGCOMM, USENIX NSDI, etc. I am a fellow of IEEE.

Professional Services

Journal Editor

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2024.11-now.

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Associate Editor, 2019.1-2020.12.

IEEE Transactions on Computers, Associate Editor, 2013.9-2015.8.

Conference Steering Committee

APNet, 2018-now.

Conference Chair

TPC Co-chair: IEEE LANMAN 2014, APNet 2025.

General Co-chair: IEEE LANMAN 2015, APNet 2018.

TPC Area Chair: ICNP 2024, 2025.

Conference TPC

ACM SIGCOMM 2019, 2025; USENIX NSDI 2026; IEEE ICNP 2020, 2022, 2023.

Teaching

Future Internet Architecture, 2011-now.

Software Engineering, 2021-now.

Publications

Conference Papers:

[1] Fei Gui, Songtao Wang, Dan Li, Li Chen, Kaihui Gao, Congcong Min and Yi Wang, "RedTE: Mitigating Subsecond Traffic Bursts with Real-time and Distributed Traffic Engineering", ACM SIGCOMM 2024, Sydney, Australia.

[2] Kaihui Gao, Li Chen, Dan Li, Vincent Liu, Xizheng Wang, Ran Zhang and Lu Lu, "DONS: Fast and Affordable Discrete Event Network Simulation with Automatic Parallelization", ACM SIGCOMM 2023, New York, USA.

[3] Shuai Wang, Kaihui Gao, Kun Qian, Dan Li, Rui Miao, Bo Li, Yu Zhou, Ennan Zhai, Chen Sun, Jiaqi Gao, Dai Zhang, Binzhang Fu, Frank Kelly, Dennis Cai, Hongqiang Harry Liu and Ming Zhang, "Predictable vFabric on Informative Data Plane", ACM SIGCOMM 2022, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

[4] Chuanxiong Guo, Guohan Lu, Dan Li, HaitaoWu, Xuan Zhang, Yunfeng Shi, Chen Tian, Yongguang Zhang and Songwu Lu, "BCube: A High Performance, Server-centric Network Architecture for Modular Data Centers", ACM SIGCOMM 2009, Barcelona, Spain.

[5] Fei Gui, Kaihui Gao, Li Chen, Dan Li, Vincent Liu, Ran Zhang, Hongbing Yang and Dian Xiong, "Accelerating Design Space Exploration for LLM Training Systems with Multi-experiment Parallel Simulation", USENIX NSDI 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

[6] Xizheng Wang, Li Chen, Libin Liu, Dan Li, Yukai Miao and Yu Bai, "Resolving Packets from Counters: Enabling Multi-scale Network Traffic Super Resolution via Composable Large Traffic Model", USENIX NSDI 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

[7] Jianmin Liu, Li Chen, Dan Li and Yukai Miao, "CEGS: Configuration Example Generalizing Synthesizer", USENIX NSDI 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

[8] Xizheng Wang , Qingxu Li, Yichi Xu, Gang Lu, Li Chen, Dan Li, Heyang Zhou, Linkang Zheng, Sen Zhang, Yikai Zhu, Yang Liu, Pengcheng Zhang, Kun Qian, Ennan Zhai, Dennis Cai and Binzhang Fu, "SimAI: Unifying Architecture Design and Performance Tunning for Large-Scale Large Language Model Training with Scalability and Precision", USENIX NSDI 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

[9] Tianfeng Liu, Yangrui Chen, Dan Li, Chuan Wu, Yibo Zhu, Jun He, Yanghua Peng, Hongzheng Chen, Hongzhi Chen and Chuanxiong Guo, "BGL: GPU-Efficient GNN Training by Optimizing Graph Data I/O and Preprocessing", USENIX NSDI 2023, Boston, MA, USA.

[10] Yanshu Wang, Dan Li, Yuanwei Lu, Jianping Wu, Hua Shao and Yutian Wang, "Elixir: A High-performance and Low-cost Approach to Managing Hardware/Software Hybrid Flow Tables Considering Flow Burstiness", USENIX NSDI 2022, Virtual.

[11] Kaihui Gao, Chen Sun, Shuai Wang, Dan Li, Yu Zhou, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Lingjun Zhu and Ming Zhang, "Buffer-based End-to-end Request Event Monitoring in the Cloud", USENIX NSDI 2022, Virtual.

[12] Dawei Wang, Geng Zhou, Xianglong Li, Yu Bai, Li Chen, Ting Qin, Jian Sun, Dan Li, "The Digital Cybersecurity Expert: How Far Have We Come?", IEEE S&P 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA.

[13] Dawei Wang, Geng Zhou, Li Chen, Dan Li and Yukai Miao, "ProphetFuzz: Fully Automated Prediction and Fuzzing of High-Risk Option Combinations with Only Documentation via Large Language Model", ACM CCS 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

[14] Lancheng Qin, Dan Li, Ruifeng Li and Kang Wang, "Accelerating the Detection of Route Origin Hijacking by Distinguishing Legitimate and Illegitimate MOAS", USENIX Security 2022, Boston, MA, USA.

[15] Lancheng Qin, Li Chen, Dan Li, Honglin Ye and Yutian Wang, "Understanding ROV Deployment in the Real World and Why MANRS Action 1 Is Not Followed", ISOC NDSS 2024, San Diego, CA, USA.

[16] Yingying Su, Dan Li, Li Chen, Qi Li and Sitong Ling, "dRR: A Decentralized, Scalable, and Auditable Architecture for RPKI Repository", ISOC NDSS 2024, San Diego, CA, USA.

[17] SongtaoWang, Dan Li, Yang Cheng, Jinkun Geng, Yanshu Wang, Shuai Wang, Shutao Xia and JianpingWu, "BML: A High-performance, Low-cost Gradient Synchronization Algorithm for DML Training", NeurIPS 2018, Montreal, Canada.

[18] Shuai Wang, Dan Li, Jiansong Zhang and Wei Lin, "CEFS: Compute-Efficient Flow Scheduling for Iterative Synchronous Applications", ACM CoNext 2020, Virtual.

[19] Haitao Wu, Guohan Lu, Dan Li, Chuanxiong Guo and Yongguang Zhang, "MDCube: A High Performance Network Structure for Modular Data Center Interconnection", ACM CoNext 2009, Rome, Italy.

[20] Yirong Yu, Dan Li and Yukai Huang, "SVirt: A Substrate-agnostic SDN Virtualization Architecture for Multi-tenant Cloud", IEEE ICNP 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA. Best Paper Award Nominee.

[21] Wei Wang, Yi Sun, Kai Zheng, Mohamed-Ali Kaafar, Dan Li and Zhongcheng Li, "Freeway: Adaptively Isolating the Elephant and Mice Flows on Different Transmission Paths", IEEE ICNP 2014, Raleigh, NC, USA.

[22] Jing Zhu, Dan Li, Jianping Wu, Hongnan Liu, Ying Zhang and Jincheng Zhang, "Towards Bandwidth Guarantee in Multi-tenancy Cloud Computing Networks", IEEE ICNP 2012, Austin, TX, USA.

[23] Dan Li, Henggang Cui, Yan Hu, Yong Xia and Xin Wang, "Scalable Data Center Multicast using Multi-class Bloom Filter", IEEE ICNP 2011, Vancouver, BC Canada.

[24] Dan Li, Mingwei Xu, Hongze Zhao and Xiaoming Fu, "Building Mega Data Center from Heterogeneous Containers", IEEE ICNP 2011, Vancouver, BC Canada.

[25] Ke Zhou, Shuai Wang, Li Chen, Dan Li, Shuhan Zhang, "SAIP: Accurate Detection of Anycast Servers with the Rise of Regional Anycast", IEEE INFOCOM 2025, London, UK.

[26] Shuhan Zhang, Shuai Wang and Dan Li, "Robust or Risky: Measurement and Analysis of Domain Resolution Dependency", IEEE INFOCOM 2024, Vancouver, Canada.

[27] Honglin Ye, Shuai Wang and Dan Li, "Impact of International Submarine Cable on Internet Routing", IEEE INFOCOM 2023, New York, USA.

[28] Shuai Wang, Dan Li and Jinkun Geng, "Geryon: Accelerating Distributed CNN Training by Network-Level Flow Scheduling", IEEE INFOCOM 2020, Virtual.

[29] Shuai Wang, Dan Li, Jinkun Geng, Yue Gu and Yang Cheng, "Impact of Network Topology on the Performance of DML: Theoretical Analysis and Practical Factors", IEEE INFOCOM 2019, Paris, France.

[30] Ruozhou Yu, Guoliang Xue, Xiang Zhang and Dan Li, "Survivable and Bandwidth-Guaranteed Embedding of Virtual Clusters in Cloud Data Centers", IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA.

[31] Yangming Zhao, Kai Chen, Wei Bai, Minlan Yu, Chen Tian, Yanhui Deng, Yiming Zhang, Dan Li and Sheng Wang, "RAPIER: Integrating Routing and Scheduling for Coflow-aware Data Center Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2015, Hongkong, China.

[32] Dan Li, Yunfei Shang and Congjie Chen, "Software Defined Green Data Center Network with Exclusive Routing", IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada.

[33] Li (Erran) Li, Vahid Liaghat, Hongze Zhao, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Dan Li, Gordon Wilfong, Y. Richard Yang and Chuanxiong Guo, "PACE: Policy-Aware Application Cloud Embedding", IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy.

[34] Dan Li, Jiangwei Yu, Junbiao Yu and Jianping Wu, "Exploring Efficient and Scalable Multicast Routing in Future Data Center Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China.

[35] Dan Li, Mingwei Xu, Ming-chen Zhao, Chuanxiong Guo, Yongguang Zhang and Min-you Wu, "RDCM: Reliable Data Center Multicast", IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China.

[36] Deke Guo, Tao Chen, Dan Li, Yunhao Liu, Xue Liu and Guihai Chen, "BCN: Expansible Network Structures for Data Centers Using Hierarchical Compound Graphs", IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China.

[37] Dan Li, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Kun Tan, Yongguang Zhang and Songwu Lu, "FiConn: Using Backup Port for Server Interconnection in Data Centers", IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

[38] Dan Li, Jianping Wu, Yong Cui and Jiangchuan Liu, "QoS-aware Streaming in Overlay Multicast Considering the Selfishness in Construction Action", IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, AK, USA.

[39] Jinkun Geng, Dan Li and Shuai Wang, "ELA: Incorporating Flexible Parallelism and Elastic Tuning to Accelerate Large-Scale DML", IEEE ICDE 2020, Dallas, TX, USA.

[40] Jinkun Geng, Dan Li and Shuai Wang, "Rima: An RDMA-Accelerated Model-Parallelized Solution to Large-Scale Matrix Factorization", IEEE ICDE 2019, Macao, China.

[41] Yifan Gong, Bingsheng He and Dan Li, "Finding Constant From Change: Revisiting Network Performance Aware Optimizations on IaaS Clouds", Super Computing 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA.

[42] Tianfeng Liu and Dan Li, "EndGraph: An Efficient Distributed Graph Preprocessing System", IEEE ICDCS 2022, Virtual.

[43] Xizheng Wang, Shuai Wang and Dan Li, "sRDMA: A General and Low-Overhead Scheduler for RDMA", APNet 2023, Hongkong, China.

[44] Kaihui Gao, Dan Li and Shuai Wang, "Bandwidth-efficient Microburst Measurement in Large-scale Datacenter Networks", APNet 2022, Fuzhou, China.

[45] Jinkun Geng, Dan Li and Shuai Wang, "Accelerating Distributed Machine Learning by Smart Parameter Server", APNet 2019, Beijing, China.

[46] Zhetao Li, Fei Gui, Jinkun Geng, Dan Li, Zhibo Wang, Junfeng Li, Yang Cheng and Usama Zafar, "Dante: Enabling FOV-Aware Adaptive FEC Coding for 360-Degree Video Streaming", APNet 2018, Beijing, China.

[47] Yukai Huang, Jinkun Geng, Du Lin, Bin Wang, Junfeng Li, Ruilin Ling and Dan Li, "LOS: A High Performance and Compatible User-level Network Operating System", APNet 2017, Hongkong, China.

[48] Lancheng Qin, Libin Liu, Dan Li, Li Chen, Yuqian Shi and Hongbing Yang, "UniSAV: A Unified Framework for Internet-Scale Source Address Validation", IRTF ANRW Workshop 2024, Vancouver, Canada.

Journal Papers:

[1] Jianmin Liu, Dan Li and Yongjun Xu, "Deep Distributional Reinforcement Learning-based Adaptive Routing with Guaranteed Delay Bounds", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 32(6):4692-4706, 2024.
　

[2] Kaihui Gao, Shuai Wang, Kun Qian, Dan Li, Rui Miao, Bo Li, Yu Zhou, Ennan Zhai, Chen Sun, Jiaqi Gao, Dai Zhang, Binzhang Fu, Frank Kelly, Dennis Cai, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Yan Li, Hongwei Yang and Tao Sun, "Dependable Virtualized Fabric on Programmable Data Plane", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 31(4):1748-1764, 2023.

[3] Kaihui Gao, Chen Sun, Shuai Wang, Dan Li, Yu Zhou, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Lingjun Zhu, Ming Zhang, Xiang Deng, Cheng Zhou and Lu Lu, "Buffer-based High-coverage and Low-overhead Request Event Monitoring in the Cloud", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 31(4):1732-1747, 2023.

[4] Shuai Wang, Jinkun Geng and Dan Li, "Impact of Synchronization Topology on DML Performance: Both Logical Topology and Physical Topology", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 30(2):572-585, 2022.

[5] Songtao Wang, Dan Li, Yang Cheng, Jinkun Geng, Yanshu Wang, Shuai Wang, Shutao Xia and Jianping Wu, "A Scalable, High-performance and Fault-tolerant Network Architecture for Distributed Machine Learning", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 28(4):1752-1764, 2020.

[6] Xuya Jia, Dan Li, Jing Zhu  and Yong Jiang, "Metro: An Efficient Traffic Fast Rerouting Scheme With Low Overhead", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 27(5):2015-2027, 2019.

[7] Guo Chen, Youjian Zhao, Hailiang Xu, Dan Pei and Dan Li, "F²Tree: Rapid Failure Recovery for Routing in Production Data Center Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 25(4):1940-1953, 2017.

[8] Ming Zhu, Dan Li, Fangxin Wang, Anke Li, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Ying Liu, Jianping Wu, Nan Zhu and Xue Liu, "CCDN: Content-Centric Data Center Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(6):3537-3550, 2016.

[9] Dan Li, Yirong Yu, Junxiao Shi and Beichuan Zhang, "PALS: Saving Network Power With Low Overhead to ISPs and Applications", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(5):2913–2925, 2016.

[10] Dan Li, Jing Zhu, Jianping Wu, Junjie Guan and Ying Zhang, "Guaranteeing Heterogeneous Bandwidth Demand in Multi-tenant Data Center Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 23(5):1648-1660, 2015.

[11] Dan Li, Hongze Zhao, Mingwei Xu and Xiaoming Fu, "Revisiting the Design of Mega Data Centers: Considering Heterogeneity among Containers", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 22(5):1503-1515, 2014.

[12] Dan Li, Yuanjie Li, Jianping Wu, Sen Su and Jiangwei Yu, "ESM: Efficient and Scalable Data Center Multicast Routing", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 20(3):944-955, 2012.

[13] Dan Li, Jianping Wu, Jiangchuan Liu, Yong Cui and Ke Xu, "Defending against Distance Cheating in Link-weighted Application Layer Multicast", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 19(5):1448-1457, 2011.

[14] Dan Li, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Kun Tan, Yongguang Zhang, Songwu Lu and Jianping Wu, "Scalable and Cost-effective Interconnection of Data-center Servers using Dual Server Ports", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 19(1):102-114, 2011.

[15] Yifan Gong, Bingsheng He and Dan Li, "Network Performance Aware Optimizations on IaaS Cloud", IEEE Transactions on Computers, 66(4):672-687,2017.

[16] Yunfei Shang, Dan Li, Jing Zhu and Mingwei Xu, "On the Network Power Effectiveness of Data Center Architectures", IEEE Transactions on Computers, 64(11):3237-3248, 2015.

[17] Dan Li, Yunfei Shang and Congjie Chen, "EXR: Greening Data Center Network with Software Defined Exclusive Routing", IEEE Transactions on Computers, 64(9):2534-2544, 2015.

[18] Dan Li, Mingwei Xu, Ying Liu, Xia Xie, Yong Cui, Jingyi Wang and Guihai Chen, "Reliable Multicast in Data Center Networks", IEEE Transactions on Computers, 63(8):2011-2024, 2014.

[19] Deke Guo, Tao Chen, Dan Li, Mo Li, Yunhao Liu and Guihai Chen, "Expandable and Cost-Effective Network Structures for Data Centers Using Dual-Port Servers", IEEE Transactions on Computers, 62(7):1303-1317, 2013.

[20] Yang Cheng, Dan Li, Zhiyuan Guo, Binyao Jiang, Jinkun Geng, Wei Bai, Jianping Wu and Yongqiang Xiong, "Accelerating End-to-End Deep Learning Workflow With Codesign of Data Preprocessing and Scheduling", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 32(7):1802-1814, 2021.

[21] Dan Li, Congjie Chen, Junjie Guan, Ying Zhang, Jingzhu and Ruozhou Yu, "DCloud: Deadline-aware Resource Allocation for Cloud Computing Jobs", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 27(8):2248-2260, 2016.

[22] Dan Li, Yirong Yu, Wu He, Kai Zheng and Bingsheng He, "Willow: Saving Data Center Network Energy for Network-limited Flows", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 26(9):2610 - 2620, 2015.

[23] Dan Li, Jiong Chen, Chuanxiong Guo, Yunxin Liu, Jinyu Zhang, Zhi-li Zhang and Yongguang Zhang, "IP-Geolocation Mapping for Moderately-Connected Internet Regions", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 24(2):381-391, 2013.

[24] Yong Cui, Hongyi Wang, Xiuzhen Cheng, Dan Li and Antti Yla-Jaaski, "Dynamic Scheduling for Wireless Data Center Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 24(12):2365 - 2374, 2013.

[25] Dan Li, Jianping Wu and Yong Cui, "Defending against Buffer Map Cheating in DONet-like P2P Streaming", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 11(3):535-542, 2009.

[26] Congjie Chen, Dan Li, Jun Li and Konglin Zhu, "SVDC: A Highly Scalable Isolation Architecture for Virtualized Layer-2 Data Center Networks", IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 6(4):1178-1190, 2018.

[27] Xiaoqiang Ma, Xiaoyi Fan, Jiangchuan Liu and Dan Li , "Dependency-Aware Data Locality for MapReduce", IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 6(3):667-679, 2018.

[28] Changlin Jiang, Dan Li and Mingwei Xu, "LTTP: An LT-code Based Transport Protocol for Many-to-One Communication in Data Centers", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 32(1):52-64, 2014.

[29] Lin Wang, Fa Zhang, Jordi Arjona Aroca, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Kai Zheng, Chenying Hou, Dan Li and Zhiyong Liu, "GreenDCN: A General Framework for Achieving Energy Efficiency in Data Center Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 32(1):4-15, 2014.