Jiaqi Gao

I am a fifth year PhD student at School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, working with Prof. Minlan Yu. I am interested in distributed systems, datacenter networks, and programmable devices. I obtained my bachelor degree from Tsinghua University and worked in Network Security Lab with Prof. Jun Li as an undergraduate.

jiaqigao [at] g.harvard.edu

Cambridge, MA

Systems & Networking

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Harvard University, 2018-Present

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Yale University, 2016-2018

B.E. in Automation, Tsinghua University, 2012-2016

Publications

Cetus: Releasing P4 Programmers from the Chore of Trial and Error Compiling

Yifan Li, Jiaqi Gao, Ennan Zhai, Mengqi Liu, Kun Liu, and Hongqiang Harry Liu.

NSDI 2022

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Aquila: A Practically Usable Verification System forProduction-Scale Programmable Data Planes

Bingchuan Tian*, Jiaqi Gao*, Mengqi Liu, Ennan Zhai, Yanqing Chen, YuZhou, Li Dai, Feng Yan, Mengjing Ma, Ming Tang, Jie Lu, Xionglie Wei,Hongqiang Harry Liu, Ming Zhang, Chen Tian, and Minlan Yu.

ACM SIGCOMM 2021

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Lyra: A Cross-Platform Language and Compiler for Data Plane Programming on Heterogeneous ASICs

Jiaqi Gao, Ennan Zhai, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Rui Miao, Yu Zhou, Bingchuan Tian, Chen Sun, Dennis Cai, Ming Zhang, and Minlan Yu

ACM SIGCOMM 2020

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Scouts: Improving the Diagnosis Process Through Domain-customized Incident Routing

Jiaqi Gao, Nofel Yaseen, Robert MacDavid, Felipe Vieira Frujeri, Vincent Liu, Ricardo Bianchini, Ramaswamy Aditya, Xiaohang Wang, Henry Lee, David Maltz, Minlan Yu, and Behnaz Arzani

ACM SIGCOMM 2020

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Cheetah: Accelerating Database Queries with Switch Pruning

Muhammad Tirmazi, Ran Ben Basat, Jiaqi Gao, and Minlan Yu

ACM SIGMOD 2020

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Risk based Planning of Network Changes in Evolving Data Centers

Omid Alipourfard, Jiaqi Gao, Jeremie Koenig, Chris Harshaw, Amin Vahdat, and Minlan Yu

ACM SIGOPS 27th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2019

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BitCuts: A Fast Packet Classification Algorithm Using Bit-Level Cuttings

Zhi Liu, Shijie Sun, Hang Zhu, Jiaqi Gao, and Jun Li

Computer Communications, 2017

Awards

Tsinghua Outstanding Graduate Student

Tsinghua Kuang-Hua Scholarship

The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM), Meritorious Winner

Tsinghua Sumitomo Scholarship

DEK SMT Scholarship

The National Scholarship