Luo Mai

Luo Mai

Assistant Professor

University of Edinburgh

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where I lead the Large-scale AI Systems group. My research lies at the intersection of distributed systems, machine learning and data management.

Before coming to Edinburgh, I was a research associate at Imperial College London, where I am currently affiliated as an Honorary Research Fellow. I received my PhD from Imperial College London in 2018 under the supervision of Paolo Costa. My PhD study was supported by a Google PhD Fellowship. During my study, I visited Microsoft Research as a research intern (2015, 2016) and a visiting researcher (2017).

Prospective Students: If you are interested in working with me as a PhD/MRes student, please get in touch ( how to make contact). I have full PhD studentships available! Studentships are also available at the CDT in NLP and CDT in Biomedical AI. Check here for how to apply.

Interests

  • Systems and networking
  • Machine learning systems
  • Data management and analytics

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2018

    Imperial College London, UK

  • MRes in Advanced Computing, 2012

    Imperial College London, UK

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2011

    Xidian University, China

Recent News

KungFu to appear at OSDI 2020

Our Paper “KungFu: Making Training in Distributed Machine Learning Adaptive” is accepted by USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) 2020.
Aug 18, 2020

Cameo to appear at NSDI 2021

Our Paper “Move Fast and Meet Deadlines: Fine-grained Real-time Stream Processing with Cameo” is accepted by USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2021.
Jul 5, 2020

Invited talk in the AI systems workshop at SOSP 2019

I am invited to give a talk: “Adaptive Distributed Training of Deep Learning Models” in the Workshop on AI Systems at ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) 2019.
Nov 5, 2019

Recent Publications

Le Xu, Shivaram Venkataraman, Indranil Gupta, Luo Mai, Rahul Potharaju (2021). Move Fast and Meet Deadlines: Fine-grained Real-time Stream Processing with Cameo. In USENIX NSDI.

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Luo Mai, Guo Li, Marcel Wagenlander, Konstantinos Fertakis, Andrei-Octavian Brabete, Peter Pietzuch (2020). KungFu: Making Training in Distributed Machine Learning Adaptive. In USENIX OSDI.

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Marcel Wagenlander, Luo Mai, Guo Li, Peter Pietzuch (2020). Spotnik: Designing Distributed Machine Learning for Transient Cloud Resources. In USENIX HotCloud.

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Alexandros Koliousis, Pijika Watcharapichat, Matthias Weidlich, Luo Mai, Paolo Costa, Peter Pietzuch (2019). CrossBow: Scaling Deep Learning with Small Batch Sizes on Multi-GPU Servers. In VLDB.

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Luo Mai, Alexandros Koliousis, Guo Li, Andrei-Octavian Brabete, Peter Pietzuch (2019). Taming Hyper-parameters in Deep Learning Systems. In ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (Invited Paper).

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Open-source Projects

KungFu

Adaptive Large-scale Deep Learning GitHub stars

TensorLayer

Easy-to-use Deep Learning Library GitHub stars

HyperPose

Real-time Visual Computing Library GitHub stars

RLzoo

Reinforcement Learning Model Zoo GitHub stars

CrossBow

Deep Learning on Multi-GPU Servers GitHub stars

Students

Alumni

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Andrei-Octavian Brabete

MEng Student

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Marcel Wagenlander

Visiting Student

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Ioan Budea

MEng Student

Popular Topics

Big Data Systems Cloud Computing Data Centre Networks Machine Learning Systems Mobile Computing

Contact

  • luo.mai@ed.ac.uk
  • IF-2.03, Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB