Minkun Xue

Research Intern

Biography

I am a 4-th year undergraduate at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and an incoming PhD student (2025 Fall) at Fudan University and FNIL-LAB, advised by Prof. YangXu. I am also fortunate to work with Dr. Zhiyu Zhang.

My research interests lie at Future-Network-Hardware Designing for Routers,Switches and SmartNIC, especially in programmable NICs/switches for Data Center and AI clusters.

Please feel free to contact me if you’re interested in relevant research or would like to discuss potential collaborations!

News

[04/2025] A new research effort is underway.
[11/2024] Internship at Pengcheng Laboratory.
[11/2024] I win the the UESTC-LuZhouLaoJiao Scholarship (10K RMB).
[10/2024] I win the first-class scholarship.
[10/2024] I am selected as an Outstanding Graduate of UESTC.
[9/2024] Group Honors: We Won the UESTC-Outstanding-Class (10 Awarded to the Whole School).
[09/2024] I am joining Fudan-FNIL (Future-Network-Innovation-Laboratory).
[01/2024] Internship at Tsinghua Storage Laboratory.

Publications [Google Scholar]

Rank-Aware Memory Orchestration: Co-Designing Switch Scheduling and Buffer Management with PIFO Semantics
Zhiyu Zhang*, Minkun Xue*, Yang Xu
SIGCOMM 2026
Revisiting the Hierarchical PIFO Model: Enhancing Accuracy and Efficiency in Programmable Scheduling
Mei Hao, Zhiyu Zhang, Minkun Xue, Yang Xu
SIGCOMM 2025

Honors & Awards

UESTC-LuZhouLaoJiao Scholarship (Top 4%, 10k RMB)
First-class Scholarship:2024

Invited Talks

[10/2024] Programmable Network Scheduler Designing. @ Techbeat

Professional Activities

Conference Reviewer: SIGCOMM 25; SICGOMM 26; NSDI 25; NSDI 26; OSDI 25; SOSP 25; ISCA 26; SIGMOD 26

Organizer: Cache design Challenge in high-speed networks @ NSDI 2026

My Hobbies

Below is a brief video about my photograph in 2024: