Tao Ji

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

Biography

I am currently a senior software engineer at Microsoft with a focus on MANA. I received my PhD in Computer Science from UT Austin in August 2024. I was advised by Prof. Aditya Akella. I am broadly interested in intra- and inter-datacenter networks. My PhD research discovered opportunities and tackled problems in applying in-network computing to real-world systems. I have also interned at Google and Microsoft, working on projects that covered hardware transport offloading, congestion control and 5G vRAN.

I am looking for opportunities to serve as a PC member or reviewer. Please contact me.

Interests

Datacenter Networks
Transports
In-Network Computing
Datacenter Interconnect

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2024
The University of Texas at Austin
M.S. in Computer Science, 2021
University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.Eng. in Computer Science, 2019
The University of Hong Kong

Publications

Tao Ji, Rohan Vardekar, Balajee Vamanan, Brent E. Stephens, Aditya Akella (2025). MTP: Transport for In-Network Computing. In NSDI ‘25.

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Jiaxin Lin, Zhiyuan Guo, Mihir Shah, Tao Ji, Yiying Zhang, Daehyeok Kim, Aditya Akella (2025). Enabling Portable and High-Performance SmartNIC Programs with Alkali. In NSDI ‘25.

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Tao Ji, Divyanshu Saxena, Brent E. Stephens, Aditya Akella (2023). Yama: Providing Performance Isolation for Black-Box Offloads. In SoCC ‘23.

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Nikita Lazarev, Tao Ji (co-first author), Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, Ilias Marinos, Francis Y. Yan, Christina Delimitrou, Zhiru Zhang, Aditya Akella (2023). Resilient Baseband Processing in Virtualized RANs with Slingshot. In SIGCOMM ‘23.

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