Wenlong Ding (丁文隆)

Ph.D Candidate Department of Computer science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China Location:      Room 117, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building, CUHK E-mail:          wlding21 [at] cse.cuhk.edu.hk Resume (as of 06/2025)

About

I am now a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate at CUHK CSE, supervised by Prof. Hong Xu. Before this, I received my B.E. degree from HUST CS (ACM class) in June 2021. My current research interests include learning/LLM-driven network management.

Current Projects (Publication List)

• Learning-Based Network Traffic Management (Traffic Engineering)
• Archie:  Efficient link restoration with learning models in traffic engineering system. (paper, slides)
• dNE:  A general DNN training framework for fast and high-performance traffic engineering. (paper, code)
• Learning/LLM-Driven Network Configuration Management
• Xumi:  Automatic ACL configuration with natural language intents.
• NAC:  Scalable Selective Verification with LLM-Enabled Network Analysis Copilot. (Ongoing)
• Misc Ideas:  Network configuration template database creation (paper), automatic routing configurations (paper), etc.

Education

• 2021.08 - Present       Ph.D in Department of Computer Science and Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
• 2017.09 - 2021.06       B.E. in School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).

Work Experience

• 2025.02 - Present       Research Intern in Network Infrastructure Group (NIG), Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).

Selected Honors and Awards

• [06/2021]   Excellent Undergraduate Thesis (3%), HUST
• [05/2021]   Outstanding Graduate and Honours Degree (3%), HUST
• [09/2020]   Merit Student (5%), HUST
• [12/2019]   Outstanding Individual in University Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project, HUST
• [04/2019]   Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest in Mo deling (5%), COMAP, USA