Qizhe Cai
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

About
Qizhe Cai is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research lies at the intersection of operating systems, networks, and hardware. Qizhe earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University, his M.S. from Princeton University, and his B.S. from the University of Michigan.
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2024
Master of Science, Princeton University, 2018
B.S.E., University of Michigan, 2016
Research Interests
Operating Systems
Computer Networks
Architecture
Selected Publications
Fast and Safe Memory Protection for Networked Systems
Benny Rubin, Saksham Agarwal, Qizhe Cai, Rachit Agarwal; In ACM SOSP, 2024
Harmony: A Congestion-free Datacenter Architecture
Saksham Agarwal, Qizhe Cai, Rachit Agarwal, David Shmoys, Amin Vahdat; In USENIX NSDI, 2024
Towards us Tail Latency and Terabit Ethernet: Disaggregating the Host Network Stack
Qizhe Cai, Midhul Vuppalapati, Jaehyun Hwang, Christos Kozyrakis, Rachit Agarwal; In ACM SIGCOMM, 2022
dcPIM: Near-Optimal Proactive Datacenter Transport
Qizhe Cai, Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, Rachit Agarwal; In ACM SIGCOMM, 2022
Understanding Host Network Stack Overheads
Qizhe Cai, Shubham Chaudhary, Midhul Vuppalapati, Jaehyun Hwang, Rachit Agarwal; In ACM SIGCOMM, 2021
Courses Taught
CS6501 Datacenters Networking Infrastructure