Education

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, 2025 – Present

Research interests: AI infrastructure, Storage for AI.

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, 2021 – 2025

Publications

• Chenxuan Yao, F. Liu, Y. Hu, Z. Liu, X. Zheng, W. Zhou.
  LowDiff: Efficient Frequent Checkpointing via Low-Cost Differential for High-Performance Distributed Training Systems.
  SC, 2025.

• L. Wang, Y. Hu, Z. Duan, M. Li, Chenxuan Yao, et al.
  SpotCC: Facilitating Coded Computation for Prediction Serving Systems on Spot Instances.
  HPCA, 2026.

• F. Liu, Y. Hu, M. Li, L. Wang, Chenxuan Yao, Z. Yu, D. Feng.
  Erasure-Coded Prefix KV Cache for Optimizing Load Balancing in Large Language Model Serving.
  DAC, 2026.

• M. Li, Y. Hu, L. Wang, Chenxuan Yao, P. C. Lee, D. Feng.
  COAR: Computation-Aware Erasure-Coded Repair in Storage Clusters for Distributed Data Analytics.
  ICDCS, 2026.

• X. Zheng, Y. Hu, Z. Ming, Chenxuan Yao, W. Zhou, et al.
  Saving Memory via Residual Reduction for DNN Training with Compressed Communication.
  Euro-Par, 2025.

• Z. Ming, Y. Hu, W. Zhou, X. Zheng, Chenxuan Yao, D. Feng.
  ADTopk: All-Dimension Top-k Compression for High-Performance Data-Parallel DNN Training.
  HPDC, 2024.

• X. Han, A. Liu, Chenxuan Yao, Y. Fan, K. He.
  Sampling-based fast gradient rescaling method for highly transferable adversarial attacks.
  arXiv, 2023.

Honors

• Outstanding Graduate (优秀毕业生)
• National Encouragement Scholarship (国家励志奖学金)
• Outstanding Undergraduate Student (本科生特优生)
• Outstanding Student Leader (优秀学生干部)
• University-level Outstanding Student (校三好学生)
• Science and Technology Innovation Scholarship (科技创新奖学金)
• Academic Excellence Scholarship (学习优秀奖学金)

Skills

• Programming: Python, C++, Cuda
• Interests: Swimming, Cooking, Badminton