About Me
Hi, my name’s Haoran Ma. You can call me Holland. I’m a 5th-year PhD candidate in Department of Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles. I am co-advised by Prof. Harry Xu and Prof. Miryung Kim.
My research interests are the intersection of systems and programming languages.
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
PhD Student in Computer Science
2019 - Present
As a PhD candidate in computer science at UCLA, my passion lies in pushing the boundaries of system capabilities within diverse datacenter environments, particularly for data analytics and machine learning applications. My research predominantly centers on innovating memory management strategies for next-generation datacenters. This involves exploring novel approaches in memory disaggregation and distributed shared memory, leveraging technologies such as RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access). My work aims to optimize resource utilization and efficiency, addressing critical challenges in scalability and performance in complex datacenter architectures.
Tsinghua University
BEng in Computer Science
2015 - 2019
I took part in the National Olympiad in Informatics in 2014 and I won the gold medal, which granted me admission to Tsinghua University for studying computer science in advance. During my studies at Tsinghua, I did research on Web API Testing, advised by Prof. Xiaoying Bai. I graduated summa cum laude from Tsinghua in 2019.
University of Oxford
Visiting Student in New College
2017 - 2018
I was selected into Yinghua Scholars Program at Tsinghua, which provided me the opportunity to go to the University of Oxford as a visiting student for one year with a full scholarship. In Oxford, I earned a full GPA in every course I studied.
I really love the formal dinner at New College.
Publications
1
Yifan Qiao, Zhenyuan Ruan, Haoran Ma, Adam Belay, Miryung Kim, Harry Xu.
Harvesting Idle Memory for Application-managed Soft State with Midas
Accepted to 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘24)
2
Chenxi Wang, Yifan Qiao (co-first author), Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Yiying Zhang, Wenguang Chen, Ravi Netravali, Miryung Kim, Guoqing Harry Xu.
Canvas: Isolated and Adaptive Swapping for Multi-Applications on Remote Memory
20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘23)
3
Chenxi Wang, Haoran Ma (co-first author), Shi Liu, Yifan Qiao, Jonathan Eyolfson, and Christian Navasca, UCLA; Shan Lu University of Chicago and Microsoft; Guoqing Harry Xu, UCLA.
MemLiner: Lining up Tracing and Application for a Far-Memory-Friendly Runtime
16th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ‘22). Awarded Jay Lepreau Best Paper
4
Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Chenxi Wang, and Yifan Qiao, UCLA; Michael D. Bond, Ohio State University; Stephen M. Blackburn, Australian National University; Miryung Kim, and Guoqing Harry Xu, UCLA
Mako: A Low-Pause, High-Throughput Evacuating Collector for Memory-Disaggregated Datacenters
43rd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI ‘22)
5
Chenxi Wang, Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, and Yuanqi Li, UCLA; Zhenyuan Ruan, MIT; Khanh Nguyen, Google and Texas A&M University; Michael D. Bond, Ohio State University; Ravi Netravali, Miryung Kim, and Guoqing Harry Xu, UCLA
Semeru: A Memory-Disaggregated Managed Runtime
14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ‘20)
6
Junyi Wang, Xiaoying Bai, Linyi Li, Zhicheng Ji and Haoran Ma, Tsinghua
A Model-Based Framework For Cloud API Testing
2017 IEEE 41st Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
7
Junyi Wang, Xiaoying Bai, Haoran Ma, Linyi Li and Zhicheng Ji, Tsinghua
2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW)
A Little More About Me
Alongside my interests in big data systems and software engineering some of my other interests and hobbies are:
- Photography
- Bamboo Flute
- Calligraphy
- Movies