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HyScale Lab

Principal investigator

Dmitrii Ustiugov

Bio, awards, funding and professional service of HyScale Lab PI Dmitrii Ustiugov.

Dmitrii Ustiugov is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. His work spans computer systems and architecture, with a focus on fast, scalable and resource-efficient cloud systems. Current projects target cloud and serverless architectures and system support for large-scale LLM inference serving. He leads the vHive open-source ecosystem for serverless experimentation, used in 30+ academic and 8+ industry organisations.

He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, co-advised by Profs. Boris Grot and Edouard Bugnion (EPFL), and was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich with Prof. Ana Klimovic.

Awards and recognition

  • MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (Visionary category, Asia-Pacific), 2024, for open-source contributions such as vHive and ServerlessLLM.
  • IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention, 2023.
  • ASPLOS’21 Distinguished Artifact Award.
  • Winner of the 1-minute thesis pitch competition at the JOBS workshop at MICRO’20.
  • Arm Center of Excellence Fellowship, 2019.
  • EPFL PhD Fellowship, 2014.

Funding

  • Sept. 2024: collaboration projects with AWS (UK), Microsoft Azure (USA) and AMD (Singapore) on large-scale serverless cloud and LLM inference serving systems.
  • Singapore MoE Tier-2 grant (S$661k): “Serverless Programming Model and Cloud Resource Virtualization Co-Design for High Performance and Efficiency”.
  • Arm three-year fellowship at the University of Edinburgh: “Virtual Memory Software-Hardware Co-Design for Cloud Computing”.
  • Google Faculty Award (2019): “Neural Address Translation” at the University of Edinburgh, with Prof. Boris Grot and Artemiy Margaritov.
  • Oracle Labs gift (2018): “Disaggregated Processors” at EPFL, with Prof. Alexandros Daglis and Prof. Babak Falsafi.

Professional service

  • Program committees: ISCA’25–26, EuroSys’26, ASPLOS’24 (light), ATC’24–25 (light), OSDI’24, SoCC’23–24, FedEdge’23, MICRO’22.
  • Co-chair of the 1st and 2nd SESAME workshop at EuroSys 2023 and 2024.
  • Head organizer of the Serverless & vHive tutorial series at ASPLOS’22 (YouTube) and SOSP’23 (slides).
  • Artifact evaluation: co-chair at HPCA’24; committee member at JSys’22 and ASPLOS’20.
  • Session co-chair: SOSP’21.
  • Shadow PC: EuroSys’21.
  • External reviewer: ATC’19, ISCA’19, CAL’19–20, MDPI JLPEA’22, MDPI Electronics’22, TCC’24.