Zerui Guo

cyrus.guo at wisc.edu

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I am Zerui (Cyrus) Guo, a final-year Ph.D. student in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Prof. Ming Liu. I expect to graduate in May 2027. Previously, I received my master’s degree from Beihang University and my bachelor’s degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

I build efficient and predictable networked systems through performance modeling, hardware-aware design, and adaptive scheduling and control. My work spans SmartNIC-based storage and performance modeling, CXL memory profiling and pooling, and accelerated application pipelines. Across these systems, I study how to understand hardware bottlenecks, align execution with hardware capabilities, and control contention among shared resources.

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Publications

2026

  1. NSDI
    Building A CSFQ-Inspired Transport for Switched CXL Memory Pooling
    Zerui Guo, Emily Shriver, and Ming Liu
    In 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 26), 2026

2025

  1. SIGCOMM
    Understanding and Profiling CXL.mem Using PathFinder
    Xiao Li, Zerui Guo, Yuebin Bai, Mahesh Ketkar, Hugh Wilkinson, and Ming Liu
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Conference, 2025
  2. NSDI
    Building Massive MIMO Baseband Processing on a Single-Node Supercomputer
    Xincheng Xie, Wentao Hou, Zerui Guo, and Ming Liu
    In 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 25), 2025

2023

  1. MICRO
    LogNIC: A High-Level Performance Model for SmartNICs
    Zerui Guo, Jiaxin Lin, Yuebin Bai, Daehyeok Kim, Michael Swift, Aditya Akella, and Ming Liu
    In Proceedings of 56th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, October 2023
  2. SIGCOMM
    LEED: A Low-Power, Fast Persistent Key-Value Store on SmartNIC JBOFs
    Zerui Guo, Hua Zhang, Chenxingyu Zhao, Yuebin Bai, Michael Swift, and Ming Liu
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference, September 2023