About Me
Hi, my name’s Haoran Ma. You can call me Holland. I’m currently a Research Scientist at ByteDance. I earned my PhD in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 2024. I was co-advised by Prof. Harry Xu and Prof. Miryung Kim during my PhD studies.
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
PhD in Computer Science
2019 - 2024
I am interested in pushing the boundaries of system capabilities within diverse datacenter environments. My work aims to optimize resource utilization and efficiency, addressing critical challenges in scalability and performance in complex datacenter architectures.
Tsinghua University
BEng in Computer Science
2015 - 2019
I took part in the National Olympiad in Informatics in 2014 and I won the gold medal, which granted me admission to Tsinghua University for studying computer science in advance. During my studies at Tsinghua, I did research on Web API Testing, advised by Prof. Xiaoying Bai. I graduated summa cum laude from Tsinghua in 2019.
University of Oxford
Visiting Student in New College
2017 - 2018
I was selected into Yinghua Scholars Program at Tsinghua, which provided me the opportunity to go to the University of Oxford as a visiting student for one year with a full scholarship. In Oxford, I earned a full GPA in every course I studied.
I really love the formal dinner at New College.
Selected Publications
1
Haoran Ma, Yifan Qiao, Shi Liu, Shan Yu, Yuanjiang Ni, Qingda Lu, Jiesheng Wu, Qingda Lu, Miryung Kim, Harry Xu.
DRust: Language-Guided Distributed Shared Memory with Fine Granularity, Full Transparency, and Ultra Efficiency
Accepted to 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ‘24)
2
Chenxi Wang, Haoran Ma (co-first author), Shi Liu, Yifan Qiao, Jonathan Eyolfson, and Christian Navasca, UCLA; Shan Lu University of Chicago and Microsoft; Guoqing Harry Xu, UCLA.
MemLiner: Lining up Tracing and Application for a Far-Memory-Friendly Runtime
16th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ‘22). Awarded Jay Lepreau Best Paper
3
Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Chenxi Wang, and Yifan Qiao, UCLA; Michael D. Bond, Ohio State University; Stephen M. Blackburn, Australian National University; Miryung Kim, and Guoqing Harry Xu, UCLA
Mako: A Low-Pause, High-Throughput Evacuating Collector for Memory-Disaggregated Datacenters
43rd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI ‘22)
A Little More About Me
Alongside my interests in computer science some of my other interests and hobbies are:
- Photography
- Bamboo Flute
- Calligraphy
- Movies