Newton Ni

Hello! I am a fourth year CS PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin, advised by Emmett Witchel. I am broadly interested in the performance and correctness of concurrent systems.

My recent work is motivated by CXL-attached memory, which can be shared across machines. There are some interesting questions here, to wit:

Publications

Cxlalloc: Safe and Efficient Memory Allocation for a CXL Pod
Newton Ni, Yan Sun, Zhiting Zhu, Emmett Witchel
ASPLOS 2026
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Impeller: Stream Processing on Shared Logs
Zhiting Zhu, Zhipeng Jia, Newton Ni, Dixin Tang, Emmett Witchel
EuroSys 2025
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Tigon: A Distributed Database for a CXL Pod
Yibo Huang, Haowei Chen, Newton Ni, Yan Sun, Vijay Chidambaram, Dixin Tang, Emmett Witchel
OSDI 2025
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Pasha: An Efficient, Scalable Database Architecture for CXL Pods
Yibo Huang, Newton Ni, Vijay Chidambaram, Emmett Witchel, Dixin Tang
CIDR 2025
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Lupin: Tolerating Partial Failures in a CXL Pod
Zhiting Zhu, Newton Ni, Yibo Huang, Yan Sun, Zhipeng Jia, Nam Sung Kim, Emmett Witchel
DIMES 2024
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Petr4: Formal Foundations for P4 Data Planes
Ryan Doenges, Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, Santiago Bautista, Alexander Chang, Newton Ni, Samwise Parkinson, Rudy Peterson, Alaia Solko-Breslin, Amanda Xu, Nate Foster
POPL 2021
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Teaching