Dan Li
IEEE Fellow
Professor, Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University
Email: tolidan@tsinghua.edu.cn
Address: F11, Ziqiang 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 network and system. Those who want to join my group please send your resume to my emailbox.
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 network and system, with focuses on data center network, AI system and trustworthy Internet architecture. I have published more than 100 technical papers in referred conferences and journals, including ACM SIGCOMM, USENIX NSDI, IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, ISOC NDSS, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, etc. I served as a member of ACM SIGCOMM Technical Steering Committee. I am a fellow of IEEE.
Journal Editor
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Associate Editor, 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
ACM SIGCOMM, 2026 - now.
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, 2026.
Conference TPC Member
ACM SIGCOMM 2019, 2025; USENIX NSDI 2026; IEEE ICNP 2020, 2022, 2023.
Future Internet Architecture, 2011-now.
Software Engineering, 2021-now.
Conference Papers:
[1] Yanyu Ren, Xianshang Lin, Chenxu Wang, Li Chen, Shuai Wang, Kaihui Gao, Dan Li, Yunfeng Bai, Chen Tian, Xinlei Zhang, Yungang Li, Tao Lin, Ennan Zhai. "Networked Agent Memory and Causality Representation: Experiences towards Interpretable Cloud-Scale Root-Causing", ACM SIGCOMM 2026, Denver, Colorado, USA
[2] Hongtao Xie, Jianmin Liu, Ce Yang, Yu He, Li Chen, Dan Li, Mineng Fu, Xi Chen, Siyu Chen, "Open the Floodgates in a Digital Twin: Experiences of Building Spillway for 100M+-User Signaling Storms in Cellular Core Network", ACM SIGCOMM 2026, Denver, Colorado, USA.
[3] Zihan Yan, Dan Li, Li Chen, Dian Xiong, Kaihui Gao, Yiwei Zhang, Rui Yan, Menglei Zhang, Bochun Zhang, Zhuo Jiang, Jianxi Ye and Haibin Lin, "From ATOP to ZCube: Automated Topology Optimization Pipeline and A Highly Cost-Effective Network Topology for Large Model Training", ACM SIGCOMM 2025, Coimbra, Portugal.
[4] Zhongxu Guan, Shuai Wang, Li Chen, Zhaoteng Yan, Jiaye Lin, Dan Li, Yong Jiang, Yingxin Wang and Ziqian Liu, "Discovering Millions of New Nodes and Links in the Internet by Challenging the Uniformity Assumption in Multipath Detection", ACM SIGCOMM 2025, Short paper, Coimbra, Portugal.
[5] 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.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] Fei Long, Kaihui Gao, Li Chen, Dan Li, Yiwei Zhang, Fei Gui, Yitao Xing, Wenjia Wei and Bingyang Liu, "Supercharging Packet-level Network Simulation of Large Model Training via Memoization and Fast-Forwarding", USENIX NSDI 2026, Renton, WA, USA.
[10] Zhongxu Guan, Shuai Wang, Li Chen, Zhaoteng Yan, Jiaye Lin, Dan Li, Yong Jiang, Yingxin Wang and Ziqian Liu, "BayWatch: Practical Internet-Scale Topology Monitoring with Dynamic Bayesian Estimation", USENIX NSDI 2026, Renton, WA, USA.
[11] Tianfeng Liu, Kaihui Gao, Li Chen, Dan Li, Jin Guang, Xinyun Chen, Vincent Liu, Zhiyong Chen, Yiwei Zhang, Ni Jin and Ran Zhang, "CCEval: Accurately and Confidently Estimating Performance Metrics of Congestion Control Algorithms for Datacenter Networks", USENIX NSDI 2026, Renton, WA, USA.
[12] 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.
[13] 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.
[14] Jianmin Liu, Li Chen, Dan Li and Yukai Miao, "CEGS: Configuration Example Generalizing Synthesizer", USENIX NSDI 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
[15] 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.
[16] 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.
[17] 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.
[18] 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.
[19] Dawei Wang, Geng Zhou, Xianglong Li, Yu Bai, Li Chen, Ting Qin, Jian Sun and Dan Li, "The Digital Cybersecurity Expert: How Far Have We Come?", IEEE S&P 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA.
[20] Shuhan Zhang, Shuai Wang, Li Chen, Dan Li and Baojun Liu, "Your Shield is My Sword: A Persistent Denial-of-Service Attack via the Reuse of Unvalidated Caches in DNSSEC Validation", USENIX Security 2025, Seattle, WA, USA. Honorable Mention Award.
[21] 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.
[22] Xiaoling Zhang, Jian Sun, Dawei Wang, Chongyu Wang, Li Chen, Zhaoteng Yan, Peipei Liu, Lixiao Zhang and Dan Li,"Hieronym: Leveraging Hierarchical Multi-Source Information for Function Renaming in Stripped Binary", ACM CCS 2026, The Hague, The Netherlands.
[23] 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.
[24] Shuai Wang, Ruifeng Li, Li Chen, Dan Li, Lancheng Qin and Qian Cao, "OSAVRoute: Advancing Outbound Source Address Validation Deployment Detection with Non-Cooperative Measurement", ISOC NDSS 2026, San Diego, CA, USA.
[25] 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.
[26] 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.
Journal Papers:
[1] Peizhuang Cong, Yuchao Zhang, Jun Wang, Wendong Wang, Tong Yang, Dan Li, Ke Xu, "I2BGP: A Privacy-Preserving Intra-AS State-Assisted Inter-AS Routing Scheme", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 34:10-724, 2026.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] 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.
[11] 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.
[12] 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.
[13] 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.
[14] 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.
[15] 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.