About

I'm Silvery Fu, co-founder of Systems Design Studio.

Previously, I did my PhD in Computer Science at UC Berkeley.

A current focus of my work is to develop a computing stack for the Internet of Data Apps.

You can explore my projects by topic.

Contact: silvery@sd.studio

Work

Toward Data-Centric Service Composition

Silvery D. Fu, Hong Zhang, Ryan Teoh, Taras Priadka, Sylvia Ratnasamy

ACM HotNets 2024 [ paper | slides | code ]

Liberal Entity Matching as a Compound AI Toolchain

Silvery D. Fu, David Wang, Wen Zhang, Kathleen Ge

Compound AI Systems 2024 [ abstract | slides | poster | code ]

Compound Schema Registry

Silvery D. Fu, Xuewei Chen

Compound AI Systems 2024 [ abstract | slides | poster | code ]

Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data

Amy Ousterhout, Steve McCanne, Henri Dubois-Ferriere,
Silvery Fu, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Noah Treuhaft

CIDR 2023 [ paper | slides | code ]

LOCA: A Location-Oblivious Cellular Architecture

Zhihong Luo, Silvery Fu, Natacha Crooks, Shaddi Hasan,
Christian Maciocco, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

USENIX NSDI 2023 [ paper | code ]

The Internet of Things in a Laptop: Rapid Prototyping for
IoT Applications with Digibox

Silvery Fu, Hong Zhang, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Ion Stoica

ACM HotNets 2022 [ paper | slides | code ]

dSpace: Composable Abstractions for Smart Spaces

Silvery Fu, Sylvia Ratnasamy

ACM SOSP 2021 [ paper | slides | code ]

On the Use of ML for Blackbox System Performance Prediction

Silvery Fu, Saurabh Gupta, Radhika Mittal, Sylvia Ratnasamy

USENIX NSDI 2021 [ paper | slides | code ]

Democratizing Cellular Access with CellBricks

Zhihong Luo, Silvery Fu, Mark Theis, Shaddi Hasan,
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

ACM SIGCOMM 2021 [ paper | slides | code | website ]

Fast and Efficient Container Startup at the Edge via Dependency Scheduling

Silvery Fu, Radhika Mittal, Lei Zhang, Sylvia Ratnasamy

USENIX HotEdge 2020 [ paper | slides | report | code | resource-stealing ]

Earlier

Preprint

By(Topic)

Internet of Data Apps

dSpace: Composable Abstractions for Smart Spaces

Silvery Fu, Sylvia Ratnasamy

ACM SOSP 2021 [ paper | slides | code ]

The Internet of Things in a Laptop: Rapid Prototyping for
IoT Applications with Digibox

Silvery Fu, Hong Zhang, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Ion Stoica

ACM HotNets 2022 [ paper | slides | code ]

Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data

Amy Ousterhout, Steve McCanne, Henri Dubois-Ferriere,
Silvery Fu, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Noah Treuhaft

CIDR 2023 [ paper | slides | code ]

Knactor: A Data-Centric Rethink of Service Composition

Silvery Fu, Hong Zhang, Ryan Teoh, Taras Priadka, Sylvia Ratnasamy

CoRR abs/2309.01805 2023 [ preprint ]

Jut: A Framework for Just-in-Time Data Access

Silvery Fu, Siyuan Dong, Jamsheed Mistri,
Steve McCanne, Amy Ousterhout, Sylvia Ratnasamy

CoRR abs/2312.01304 2023 [ preprint ]

From Internet of Things to Internet of Data Apps

Silvery Fu, Sylvia Ratnasamy

CoRR abs/2309.04546 2023 [ preprint ]

Human-Scale Computing: A Case for Progressive Narrow Waist for Internet Applications

Silvery Fu and Pratyush Das (co-first), Sylvia Ratnasamy

CoRR abs/2308.14928 2023 [ preprint ]

Toward Data-Centric Service Composition

Silvery D. Fu, Hong Zhang, Ryan Teoh, Taras Priadka, Sylvia Ratnasamy

ACM HotNets 2024 [ paper | slides | code ]


Democratized Infrastructure

Comverse: A Federative-by-Design Platform for Community Computing

Silvery Fu, Dylan Reimer, Siyuan Dong, Yifei Zhu, Sylvia Ratnasamy

CoRR abs/2308.15219 2023 [ preprint ]

LOCA: A Location-Oblivious Cellular Architecture

Zhihong Luo, Silvery Fu, Natacha Crooks, Shaddi Hasan,
Christian Maciocco, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

USENIX NSDI 2023 [ paper | code ]

Democratizing Cellular Access with CellBricks

Zhihong Luo, Silvery Fu, Mark Theis, Shaddi Hasan,
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

ACM SIGCOMM 2021 [ paper | slides | code | website ]


Cloud Native Computing

Out of Hand for Hardware? Within Reach for Software!

Zhihong Luo, Silvery Fu, Emmanuel Amaro, Amy Ousterhout,
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker

ACM HotOS 2023 [ paper ]

On the Use of ML for Blackbox System Performance Prediction

Silvery Fu, Saurabh Gupta, Radhika Mittal, Sylvia Ratnasamy

USENIX NSDI 2021 [ paper | slides | code ]

Fast and Efficient Container Startup at the Edge via Dependency Scheduling

Silvery Fu, Radhika Mittal, Lei Zhang, Sylvia Ratnasamy

USENIX HotEdge 2020 [ paper | slides | report | code | resource-stealing ]

DBNet: Leveraging DBMS for Network Automation

Rithvik Chuppala and Silvery Fu (co-first), Sylvia Ratnasamy

CoRR abs/2308.15780 [ preprint ]

Truthful Online Auction Toward Maximized Instance Utilization
in the Cloud

Yifei Zhu, Silvery Fu, Jiangchuan Liu, Yong Cui

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2018 [ paper | code ]

Truthful Online Auction for Cloud Instance Subletting

Yifei Zhu, Silvery Fu, Jiangchuan Liu, Yong Cui

IEEE ICDCS 2017 [ paper | slides | code ]

HARV: Harnessing Hybrid Virtualization to Improve Instance (Re)Usage in Public Cloud

Silvery Fu, Yifei Zhu, Jiangchuan Liu

IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2017 [ paper | slides | code ]

Toward a Standard Interface for Cloud Providers: the Container as the Narrow Waist

Silvery Fu, Jiangchuan Liu, Xiaowen Chu, Yueming Hu

IEEE Internet Computing 2016 [ paper | slides | code ]


Multimedia Systems

Toward Fully Offloaded Cloud-based AR: Design, Implementation and Experience

Ryan Shea, Andy Sun, Silvery Fu, Jiangchuan Liu

ACM MMSys 2017 [ paper | slides | code ]

Live Broadcast with Community Interactions: Bottlenecks and Optimizations

Xiaoqiang Ma, Cong Zhang, Jiangchuan Liu, Ryan Shea, Di Fu

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2017 [ paper | code ]

Multimedia Content Delivery with Network Function Virtualization: The Energy Perspective

Silvery Fu, Jiangchuan Liu, Wenwu Zhu

IEEE MultiMedia 2017 [ paper | slides | code ]

On Energy-efficient Offloading in Mobile Cloud for Real-time Video Applications

Lei Zhang, Di Fu, Jiangchuan Liu, Edith Cheuk-Han Ngai, Wenwu Zhu

IEEE TCSVT 2016 [ paper | code ]

Toward Bridging Online Game Playing and Live Broadcasting: Design and Optimization

Ryan Shea, Di Fu, Jiangchuan Liu

ACM NOSSDAV 2015 [ paper | slides | code ]

Cloud gaming: Understanding the Support from Advanced Virtualization and Hardware

Ryan Shea, Di Fu, Jiangchuan Liu

IEEE TCSVT 2015 [ paper | slides | code ]

Rhizome: Utilizing the Public Cloud to Provide 3D Gaming Infrastructure

Ryan Shea, Di Fu, Jiangchuan Liu

ACM MMSys 2015 [ paper | slides | code ]


Compound AI Systems

Liberal Entity Matching as a Compound AI Toolchain

Silvery D. Fu, David Wang, Wen Zhang, Kathleen Ge

Compound AI Systems 2024 [ paper | slides | poster | code ]

Compound Schema Registry

Silvery D. Fu, Xuewei Chen

Compound AI Systems 2024 [ paper | slides | poster | code ]


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