About me
I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the School of Intelligent Software and Engineering at Nanjing University. Before that, I received my Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in June 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Fengyuan Ren. From Sep. 2019 to Oct. 2020, I was a visiting student in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the supervision of Prof. Aditya Akella.
Research Interests
Data Center Network
Networked System for Large Language Model
Transport Protocol
Networking Stack
Services
- Technical Review
- IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN)
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
- ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys)
- ACM Multimedia (MM)
- ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNET)
- Program Committee Members
- SIGCOMM 2025 Workshop NAIC, WCNC 2025, WCNC 2024, ICCC 2023
Selected Publications
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Qingkai Meng, Hao Zheng, Zhenhui Zhang, ChonLam Lao, Chengyuan Huang, Baojia Li, Ziyuan Zhu, Hao Lu, Weizhen Dang, Zitong Lin, Weifeng Zhang, Lingfeng Liu, Yuanyuan Gong, Chunzhi He, Xiaoyuan Hu, Yinben Xia, Xiang Li, Zekun He, Yachen Wang, Xianneng Zou, Kun Yang, Gianni Antichi, Guihai Chen, Chen Tian, “A Datacenter Infrastructure for Large Language Model Training at Scale”, ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM, CCF-A), 2025
Zhongjie Chen, Qingkai Meng, ChonLam Lao, Yifan Liu, Fengyuan Ren, Minlan Yu, and Yang Zhou, “eTran: Extensible Kernel Transport with eBPF”, USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI, CCF-A), 2025
Zhongjie Chen, Yingchen Fan, Kun Qian, Qingkai Meng, Ran Shu, Xiaoyu Li, Yiran Zhang, Bo Wang, Wei Li, and Fengyuan Ren, “ScalaTap: Scalable Outbound Rate Limiting in Public Cloud”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM, CCF-A), 2025
Qingkai Meng, Shan Zhang, Zhiyuan Wang, Tao Tong, Chaolei Hu, Hongbin Luo, and Fengyuan Ren, “BCC: Re-architecting Congestion Control in DCNs”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM, CCF-A), 2024
Qingkai Meng, Yiran Zhang, Chaolei Hu, Bo Wang, and Fengyuan Ren “Explicit Dropping Notification in Data Centers”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM, CCF-A), 2024
Qingkai Meng, Yiran Zhang, Shan Zhang, Zhiyuan Wang, Tong Zhang, Hongbin Luo, and Fengyuan Ren, “Switch-assistant Loss Recovery for RDMA Transport Control”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN, CCF-A), 2024
Yiran Zhang, Qingkai Meng#, Chaolei Hu, and Fengyuan Ren, “Revisiting Congestion Control for Lossless Ethernet”, USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI, CCF-A), 2024
Tao Tong, Qingkai Meng#, Shan Zhang, Zhiyuan Wang, and Hongbin Luo, “When Parallel Permissioned Blockchain Meets Network Congestion in Datacenters”, USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI Poster, CCF-A), 2024
Zhongjie Chen, Qingkai Meng#, Yiran Zhang, and Fengyuan Ren, “Predictable Host Networking in Data Centers: Challenges, Technologies and Future Directions”, IEEE Network Magazine (SCI Q1), 2024
Yiran Zhang, Qingkai Meng#, Yifan Liu, and Fengyuan Ren, “Revisiting Congestion Detection in Lossless Networks”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN, CCF-A), 2023
Zhiyuan Wang*, Qingkai Meng*, Shan Zhang, and Hongbin Luo, “The Power of Age-based Reward in Fresh Information Acquisition”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM, CCF-A), 2023
Qingkai Meng, Fengyuan Ren, Tong Zhang, Danfeng Shan, and Yajun Yang, “Demystifying and Mitigating TCP Capping”, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS, CCF-B), 2022
Wei Li, Xiaohui Luo, Yiran Zhang, Qingkai Meng, and Fengyuan Ren, “CrossDBT: An LLVM-Based User-Level Dynamic Binary Translation Emulator”, Springer European Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par, CCF-B), 2022
Qingkai Meng, and Fengyuan Ren, “Lightning: A Practical Building Block for RDMA Transport Control”, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS, CCF-B), 2021
Qingkai Meng, Kun Qian, Wenxue Cheng, and Fengyuan Ren, “RBA: Adaptive TCP Receive Buffer Sizing”, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC, CCF-C), 2021
Yiran Zhang, Yifan Liu, Qingkai Meng, and Fengyuan Ren, “Congestion Detection in Lossless Networks”, ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM, CCF-A), 2021