Xiangrui Yang (杨翔瑞)

Associate Professor

National University of Defense Technology

College of Computer

About Me

I am an Associate Professor at the College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). I received my Ph.D. in Cyberspace Security from NUDT in 2021, and my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from NUDT in 2015 and 2017, respectively. I was a visiting researcher at Queen Mary University of London in 2019-2020.

Research Interests

Programmable Data Planes: High-speed programmable network systems, FPGA-based network processing
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN): Deterministic networking for industrial and automotive applications
Domain-Specific Networking (DSN): Customized network architectures for specific application domains
Network Acceleration: Hardware-software co-design for network processing acceleration

Highlights

Publications: 16+ papers in CCF-recommended venues (9 top-tier papers in CCF-A journals/conferences)
Awards: SIGCOMM 2020 Distinguished Paper Award, 3 international awards
Patents: 7+ granted national invention patents
Open Source: Creator of FastRMT - the first open-source FPGA-level RMT architecture implementation

News

[2025.12] Promoted to Associate Professor at NUDT.

[2025.06] Paper "Memory-Efficient Packet Classification at High-Speed" accepted to IWQoS 2025.

[2025.06] Paper "Megabits Down to Kilobits: Memory-Efficient Time-Aware Shaping for TSN" accepted to DAC 2025.

[2024.08] Paper "Magneto: Load-Balanced Key-Value Service" accepted to IEEE TSC (CCF-A).

[2024.02] Paper "FastRMT" published in Journal of Computer Research and Development (CCF-A Chinese Journal).

Selected Publications

Making QUIC Quicker with NIC Offload CCF-A Distinguished Paper

Xiangrui Yang, Lars Eggert, Jörg Ott, Steve Uhlig, Zhigang Sun, Gianni Antichi

ACM SIGCOMM 2020

Isolation Mechanisms for High-Speed Packet-Processing Pipelines CCF-A

Tao Wang, Xiangrui Yang, Gianni Antichi, Anirudh Sivaraman, Aurojit Panda

USENIX NSDI 2022

FastRMT: A High-Speed Data Plane Programmable System for Microarchitecture Innovation CCF-A

Xiangrui Yang, Lingbin Zeng, Zhongpei Liu, Yingwen Chen, Gaofeng Lv, Cheng Yang, Jinshu Su

Journal of Computer Research and Development, 2024

Magneto: Load-Balanced Key-Value Service for Write-Intensive Workloads CCF-A

Yuanhang Gao, Yingwen Chen, Xiangrui Yang*, Huan Zhou, Shihua Tang, Ming Xu

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2025

FooDog: Empower TSN for Efficient Policing CCF-A

Xuyan Jiang, Xiangrui Yang*, Wenwen Fu, Wenfei Wu, Wei Quan, Yingwen Chen, Yihao Jiao, Zhigang Sun

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2025