Haikun Liu is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science and technology from HUST in 2012. He has co-authored more than 60 papers in the most prestigious conferences and journals, such as SC/ASPLOS/HPCA/ICS/HPDC, and TC/TPDS/TACO. His current research interests include in-memory computing, virtualization technologies, cloud computing, and distributed systems. He is a senior member of CCF, and a member of the IEEE.