About Me
I am a tenure-track Associate Professor at Nanjing University. I received my Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 2023 (Advisor: Prof. Jiwu Shu), and Bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2018. From 2023 to 2025, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Tsinghua University.
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Research
My research focuses on computer systems, particularly storage/memory systems and
networked systems.
The research topics I am currently interested in include:
- Distributed systems with memory-semantic interconnects
- System support for petabyte-scale memory
- Data management for Agentic AI
- Sustainable cloud storage
Here are some of my representative research projects:
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Network-Accelerated Distributed Systems
- Leveraging NIC hardware ACKs for fast commit (NSDI'25)
- Network primitives for replication (OSDI'23)
- Distributed locks (ISCA'26, FAST'25, FAST'23)
- Transactions (USENIX ATC'22, VLDB'22)
- In-network cache coherence (FAST'21)
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Emerging Memory Systems
- Index on disaggregated memory (EuroSys'25, SIGMOD'22)
- Persistent memory systems (OSDI'21, USENIX ATC'22/ATC'23)
- SSD-extended remote memory (FAST'24)
- Protective remote memory (FAST'23)
Services
Program Committee:
- USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2027)
- SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2026)
- European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys (fall) 2026)
Journal Reviewing:
- TOS, TACO, CSUR
Publications
2027
- [NSDI'27]ns-GPU: Towards Fast Simulation for Large-Scale Networks with GPUs
The 24th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2027
2026
- [FAST'26]Cost-efficient Archive Cloud Storage with Tape: Design and Deployment
The 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2026 (Best Paper Award Candidate) - [ISCA'26]Breaking Barriers in Atomic Scaling: A Hardware-Software-Collaborated Framework to Deconstruct RDMA Atomic
Proceedings of International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2026 - [MICRO'26]Hera: Eliminating the I/O Tax of RAID on High-Capacity SSDs
The 59th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2026 - [ASE'26]AlphaCu: A Transformation-Driven Synthesis Framework for LLM-based GPU Kernel Generation
The 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2026 - [SIGCOMM'26]Pegasus: A Data Center Network for Bare-Metal AI Cloud
ACM SIGCOMM 2026 Conference, 2026 - [ICDE'26]Switch∆: Asynchronous Metadata Updating for Distributed Storage with In-Network Data Visibility
The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2026 - [HPDC'26]BCCE: Block-Centric GPU Co-Design for Real-Time Range-Top-K Query at Scale
ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2026 - [HPDC'26]STAR: Decode-Phase Rescheduling for LLM Inference
The 35th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2026
2025
- [NSDI'25]Achieving Wire-Latency Storage Systems by Exploiting Hardware ACKs
The 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2025 - [CACM]Designing an Efficient Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory [Code]
Communications of the ACM, 2025 (Research Highlight) - [SoCC'25]Accelerating Distributed Filesystem Metadata Service via Decoupling Directory Semantics from Metadata Indexing
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2025 - [USENIX ATC'25]Weaver: Efficient Multi-LLM Serving with Attention Offloading
USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2025 - [FAST'25]ShiftLock: Mitigate One-sided RDMA Lock Contention via Handover [Code]
The 23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2025 (Distinguished Artifact Award) - [EuroSys'25]Deft: A Scalable Tree Index for Disaggregated Memory [Code]
The 20th European Conference on Computer Systems, 2025 - [TOS]Efficiently Enlarging RDMA-Attached Memory with SSD [Code]
ACM Transactions on Storage, 2025 (Fast-tracked) - [TC]StageWise: Accelerating Persistent Key-Value Stores by Thread Model Redesigning
IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2025 - [HotStorage'25]CableCache: In-Network Request Deduplication for Key-Value Stores
The 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, 2025
2024
- [FAST'24]TeRM: Extending RDMA-Attached Memory with SSD [Code]
The 22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2024
Invited for fast-tracked publication in ACM Transactions on Storage - [TOS]Perseid: A Secondary Indexing Mechanism for LSM-based Storage Systems [Code]
ACM Transactions on Storage, 2024 (Fast-tracked) - Challenges and Technical Development of Large Model Training Storage Systems
Journal of Computer Research and Development (in Chinese), 2024
2023
- [OSDI'23]Replicating Persistent Memory Key-Value Stores with Efficient RDMA Abstraction [Code]
The 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2023 - [SIGMOD Record]Building Write-Optimized Tree Indexes on Disaggregated Memory [Code]
SIGMOD Record, March 2023 (Vol. 52, No. 1), 2023 (Invited) - [USENIX ATC'23]Revisiting Secondary Indexing in LSM-based Storage Systems with Persistent Memory [Code]
USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2023
Invited for fast-tracked publication in ACM Transactions on Storage - [FAST'23]Patronus: High-Performance and Protective Remote Memory [Code]
The 21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2023 - [FAST'23]Citron: Distributed Range Lock Management with One-sided RDMA
The 21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2023 - [VLDB'23]PetPS: Supporting Huge Embedding Models with Persistent Memory [Code]
The 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2023 - Survey on In-Network Storage Systems
Journal of Computer Research and Delevopment (in Chinese), 2023 - Progress on Storage Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers
SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis (in Chinese), 2023
2022
- [SIGMOD'22]Sherman: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory [Code]
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2022
2023 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, CACM Research Highlight - [TOS]Nap: Persistent Memory Indexes for NUMA Architectures [Code]
ACM Transactions on Storage, 2022 (Fast tracked) - [USENIX ATC'22]AlNiCo: SmartNIC-accelerated Contention-aware Request Scheduling for Transaction Processing
USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2022 - [USENIX ATC'22]Pacman: An Efficient Compaction Approach for Log-Structured Key-Value Store on Persistent Memory [Code]
USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2022 - [EuroSys'22]Fleche: An Efficient GPU Embedding Cache for Personalized Recommendations
The 17th European Conference on Computer Systems, 2022 - [VLDB'22]SwitchTx: Scalable In-Network Coordination for Distributed Transaction Processing
The 48th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2022
2021
- [OSDI'21]Nap: A Black-Box Approach to NUMA-Aware Persistent Memory Indexes [Code]
The 15th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2021
Invited for fast-tracked publication in ACM Transactions on Storage - [FAST'21]Concordia: Distributed Shared Memory with In-Network Cache Coherence
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2021 - [TOS]Octopus+: an RDMA-enabled Distributed Persistent Memory File System
ACM Transactions on Storage, 2021 - [ICDE'21]Aria: Tolerating Skewed Workloads in Secure In-memory Key-value Stores
37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2021 - A Multicore-Friendly Persistent Memory Key-Value Store
Journal of Computer Research and Delevopment (in Chinese), 2021
2020
- [DAC'20]Improving the Concurrency Performance of Persistent Memory Transactions on Multicores
Design Automation Conference, 2020 - [ASPLOS'20]FlatStore: an Efficient Log-Structured Key-Value Storage Engine for Persistent Memory
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2020 - [VLDB'20]μTree: a Persistent B+-Tree with Low Tail Latency
46th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2020 - [TOS]TH-DPMS: Design and Implementation of an RDMA-enabled Distributed Persistent Memory Storage System
ACM Transactions on Storage, 2020
Selected Awards
- Best Paper Award Candidate, USENIX FAST 2026
- Distinguished Artifact Award, USENIX FAST 2025
- CACM Research Highlight, 2025
- ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, 2023
- Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, 2021
- Huawei OlympusMons Award, 2020