<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Monday, October 7, 2019 at 2:00 pm</b></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">John Crerar Library, Room 346</b></font></span></div></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Title</b>: Data Center Networking Research at Alibaba</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Abstract:</b> Alibaba operates some of the most sophisticated and diverse Internet services in the world, including e-commerce </span></font><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">(Taobao and TMall), cloud computing (Alibaba Cloud), mobile payment and finance (Ant Financial). To deliver </span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times;" class="">these services seamlessly to hundreds of millions of users, Alibaba has built mega-scale data center networks </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times;" class="">spanning across the globe. In this talk, I will provide a peek into the key research problems that we are working </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times;" class="">on, from high-performance networking, to telemetry, intent-based networking, and programmable networks. We </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times;" class="">believe that the outcome of this research will be vital to pushing the performance, availability and agility of data</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">center networks to the next level.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Bio: </b></span><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class="">Ming Zhang is a Senior Director / Principal Engineer in Alibaba Cloud where he leads the development of </span></font><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class="">automation and intelligence systems that keep Alibaba’s global datacenter networks running reliably, efficiently </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class="">and at scale. In addition, he leads the networking research team which explores and builds next-generation datacenter </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class="">and wireless networking technologies for Alibaba. Before joining Alibaba, he was a Senior Researcher at </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class="">Microsoft Research Redmond for 10 years, during which time he delivered multiple key technologies that power </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class="">the massive cloud networks of Microsoft Azure. He holds 20+ US patents, and his research was featured in </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class="">influential media outlets such as BBC, CNN, and MIT Tech Review. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class="">in 2005 and B.S. from Nanjing University in 1999.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Host:</b> Heather Zheng</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class=""><font face="Times" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">PDF:</b></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);" class=""></div></body></html>