Computer systems and architecture related to cloud computing and big data processing, including the current work on energy-efficient data center design and management, and data-flow computing technologies.

2012 – 2016 Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University (OSU)
2010 – 2012 M.S. Computer Engineering, University of Southern California (USC)
2006 – 2010 B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)

Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (2016 - Present)
Research Assistant, The Ohio State University, USA (2012 - 2016)

- Kuangyu Zheng, Wenli Zheng, Li Li, and Xiaorui Wang, "PowerNetS: Coordinating Data Center Network with Servers and Cooling for Power Optimization", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2017 (Accepted to appear).
- Wenli Zheng, Kai Ma, and Xiaorui Wang, "Hybrid Energy Storage with Supercapacitor for Cost-efficient Data Center Power Shaving and Capping", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 28(4): 1105-1118, April 2017.
- Li Li, Wenli Zheng, Xiaodong Wang, and Xiaorui Wang, “Data Center Power Minimization with Placement Optimization of Liquid-Cooled Servers and Free Air Cooling”, Sustainable Computing (Elsevier), 11(1): 3-15, September 2016.
- Wenli Zheng, Kai Ma, and Xiaorui Wang, “TE-Shave: ReducingDataCenterCapital and Operating Expenses with Thermal Energy Storage”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 64(11): 3278-3292, 2015.
- Wenli Zheng, Kai Ma, and Xiaorui Wang, “TECfan: Coordinating Thermoelectric Cooler, Fan, and DVFS for CMP Energy Optimization”, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2016.
- Wenli Zheng and Xiaorui Wang, “DataCenterSprinting: Enabling Computational Sprinting at theDataCenterLevel”, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2015.
- Li Li, Wenli Zheng, Xiaodong Wang, and Xiaorui Wang, “Placement Optimization of Liquid-Cooled Servers for Power Minimization in Data Centers”, International Green Computing Conference (IGCC), 2014
- Marco Brocanelli, Wenli Zheng, and Xiaorui Wang, “Reducing the Expenses of Geo-distributed Data Centers with Portable Containerized Modules”, International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements, and Evaluation (Performance), 2014.
- Li Li, Wenli Zheng, Xiaodong Wang, and Xiaorui Wang, “Coordinating Liquid and Free Air Cooling with Workload Allocation for Data Center Power Minimization”, International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), 2014.
- Wenli Zheng, Kai Ma, and Xiaorui Wang, “Exploiting Thermal Energy Storage to Reduce Data Center Capital and Operating Expenses”, International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2014.