I am currently an Assistant Researcher at Zhongguancun Laboratory, collaborating closely with Dr. Li Chen and Prof. Dan Li. I received my Ph.D. in Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, in 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Dan Li.
I have broad interest in networking and systems, including Digital Twin Network, Programmable Network, Intelligent Network, etc. Currently, I am focusing on constructing digital twins of networks, including the Internet.

Recent publications

Kaihui Gao, Li Chen, Dan Li, Vincent Liu, Xizheng Wang, Ran Zhang, Lu Lu. DONS: Fast and Affordable Discrete Event Network Simulation with Automatic Parallelization. SIGCOMM’2023 (CCF A, TH-CPL A). Open sourced: DONS’s GitHub.

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, Ming Zhang. Predictable vFabric on Informative Data Plane. (* indicates the co-first authorship) SIGCOMM’2022 (CCF A, TH-CPL A)

Kaihui Gao, Chen Sun, Shuai Wang, Dan Li, Yu Zhou, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Lingjun Zhu, Ming Zhang. Buffer-based End-to-end Request Event Monitoring in the Cloud. (Paper, Slides, Video) NSDI’2022 (CCF A, TH-CPL A)

Honors & Awards

-12/2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Incentive Program (Nomination), CCF (中国计算机学会)

-09/2023 Student Travel Grant, SIGCOMM

-06/2023 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Tsinghua University

-03/2023 Innovative Future Scholarship, Tsinghua University

-11/2022 HUAWEI Scholarship, Tsinghua University

Talks

-09/2023 CCF ChinaNet 2023, “DONS：面向数据设计的网络离散事件仿真引擎”, slides.