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Fan Lai

Ph.D. candidate in CSE
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Contact

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4828 BBB
2260 Hayward St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121

EECS (CSE)
University of Michigan

About Me

I am a 5th-year PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, advised by Prof. Mosharaf Chowdhury and Prof. Harsha V. Madhyastha, and a visiting researcher at Meta AI.

My research is at the intersection of networked systems and machine learning (ML) in the context of data-intensive computing, including big data systems for scale-out ML and federated data analytics.

Prior to Umich, I got my B.S. degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2017.

Recent Papers

  • [NSDI'23] ModelKeeper: Accelerating DNN Training via Automated Training Warmup
    Fan Lai, Yinwei Dai, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Mosharaf Chowdhury
    • [pdf] [slides] [code] [bibtex]
  • [ICML'22] FedScale: Benchmarking Model and System Performance of Federated Learning at Scale
    Fan Lai, Yinwei Dai, Sanjay S. Singapuram, Jiachen Liu, Xiangfeng Zhu, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Mosharaf Chowdhury
    • [pdf] [slides] [code] [bibtex]
    Best Paper Award@SOSP ResilientFL, 2021
  • [OSDI'21] Oort: Efficient Federated Learning via Guided Participant Selection
    Fan Lai, Xiangfeng Zhu, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Mosharaf Chowdhury
    • [pdf] [slides] [code] [bibtex]
    Distinguished Artifact Award
  • [NSDI'20] Sol: Fast Distributed Computation Over Slow Networks
    Fan Lai, Jie You, Xiangfeng Zhu, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Mosharaf Chowdhury
    • [pdf] [slides] [code] [bibtex]
  • [HotCloud'18] To Relay or Not to Relay for Inter-Cloud Transfers?
    Fan Lai, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Harsha Madhyastha
    • [pdf] [slides] [bibtex]
  • [Preprint] Swan: A Neural Engine for Efficient DNN Training on Smartphone SoCs
    Sanjay S. Singapuram, Fan Lai, Chuheng Hu, Mosharaf Chowdhury
  • [Preprint] Fed-ensemble: Improving Generalization through Model Ensembling in Federated Learning
    Naichen Shi, Fan Lai, Raed Al Kontar, Mosharaf Chowdhury
  • [Preprint] Efficient DNN Training with Knowledge-Guided Layer Freezing
    Yiding Wang, Decang Sun, Kai Chen, Fan Lai, Mosharaf Chowdhury

Industry Experience

  • Visiting Researcher, Meta AI, Menlo Park, CA, March - Present
    Project: Research on Machine Learning + Systems

Awards

  • Best Paper Award (ResilientFL'21)
  • Distinguished Artifact Award Winner (OSDI'21)
  • National Scholarship