[Edinburgh] "Flat Memory Model in Big Memory", University of Edinburgh, July 2025.

[Dagstuhl] "The Persistence of Big Memory: Unlocking Memory Hierarchy", The Dagstuhl Seminar, April 2025.

[Dagstuhl] "Learning-based In-Memory Indexing with Hardware Assistance", The Dagstuhl Seminar, April 2025.

[Mainz] "Rethinking Memory-Centric Systems", Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, April 2025.

[HKUST] "Atomic Durability and Crash Consistency in Big Memory", The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ), October 2024.

[MSC in ESWEEK] "High-performance Learned Index in Disaggregated Persistent Memory Systems", International Workshop on Memory and Storage Computing (MSC) in Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK), October 2022.

[HotDC] "Persistent Memory System: A Computable View", The 6th Workshop on Hot Topics on Data Centers (HotDC), December 2021.

[ChinaSys] "High-performance Secure Persistent Memory Systems", The ACM SIGOPS ChinaSys Workshop, May 2021.

[JHU]"High-Performance Persistent Memory Systems: Concurrency and Security", Johns Hopkins University, May 2019.

[NEU]"NVM-based Secure and Persistent Memory Systems", Northeastern University, February 2019. See the News and flyer.

[CITYU]"Storage Security Ecosystem: A Top-down View", City University of Hong Kong, August 2018. See the flyer.

[UML]"NVM-based Secure and Persistent Memory Systems", University of Massachusetts Lowell, July 2018. See the flyer.

[UMB]"Semantic-aware Edge Storage Systems", University of Massachusetts Boston, November 2017.

[GWU]"Deduplication-aware Architecture and System for Edge Computing", The George Washington University, November 2017.See the flyer.

[UCR]"Deduplication-aware Architecture and System for Edge Computing", University of California, Riverside, March 2017. See the News.

[EuroSys]"Deduplication-aware NVM Systems for Edge Computing", The workshop of EuroSys 2017 PC Member in Google Zurich, January 2017.

[UU]"Deduplication-aware Edge Computing", Uppsala University, January 2017. See the News.

[MathWorks]"Correlation-aware Hashing for Smarter Storage", MathWorks Asia Research Summit, September 2016.

[UCF]"Deduplication-aware Ecosystem: A Bottom-up Approach", University of Central Florida, March 2016.  See the flyer.

[POLYU]"Smart Big Data Analytics in Large-scale Storage Systems", The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, March 2015.

[UCCS]"Near Real-time Data Analytics: Observations and Insights", University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, November 2014.

[NVMSA]"Non-volatile Storage Support for Data Deduplication", The Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA) 2014 in conjunction with RTCSA 2014, August 2014.

[McGill]"Design and Implementation of Network Storage Systems: From Cloud to SDN", McGill University, November 2013.

　

PI: "Research on Memory Systems for AI Hardware", NSFC-BHKAEC, No.62411560156, 2024.

PI: "Software and Hardware Co-design in Persistent Memory for Blockchain Storage", Joint Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), No.U22B2022, 2023-2026.

PI: "Non-volatile Memory Systems", National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, No.62125202, 2022-2026.

PI: "Research on Organization Model and Key Technology of Massive Time-constrained Data in Cloud Storage Systems", National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), No.61772212, 2018-2021.

Key Member (Co-PI): "The Principle and Methods of Software-defined Configurable Distributed Storage Systems", National Key Research and Development Program of China, No.2016YFB1000202, 2016-2021.

PI: "Flat Addressing Schemes for In-memory Computing in Massive Storage Systems", State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture, No.CARCH201505, 2016-2017. (Evaluation: Excellence)

PI: "Research on Correlation-Aware Organization Model and Key Technology in Hybrid Storage Systems", National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), No. 61173043, 2012- 2015.

PI: "Research on Multi-dimensional Metadata Structure and Fast Query Approach in Large-scale Storage System", National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), No. 60703046, 2008-2010.

Key Member: "Basic Research on Data Storage System Theory and Technology for Complex Application Environment", National Basic Research 973 Program of China, 2011-2015.

Key Member: "PB-scale High-performance Massive Storage Systems and Applications", National High Technology Research and Development Program of China, 2009-2010.

Key Member: "Research on Organization and Key Technologies of Storage Systems on the Next Generation Internet", National Basic Research 973 Program of China, 2005-2009. (Evaluation: Excellence)

HUST Academic Breakthrough, 2023. Details.

Advisor Award for Doctoral Dissertation Award in ACM SIGOPS ChinaSys, 2023.

Best Paper Award in FAST 2023.

Best Paper Award in IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2023 affiliated with ACM FCRC 2023.

Best Paper Award in IEEE HPCC 2021.

The First Class Award in Natural Science of the Ministry of Education, 2020.

Advisor Award for ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award (National Winner), 2020.

Advisor Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Nominee in CCF, 2020.

Finalist for the Memorable Paper Award in NVMW 2019.

The First Class Award in Science and Technology Progress in the Hubei Province, 2018.

ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2018-2020.

CCF Distinguished Speaker, 2024, 2018, 2017, 2016

Best-in-Session Presentation Award in IEEE INFOCOM 2016.

Distinguished Editor in Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), 2017, 2016.

Best Paper Award in Tsinghua Science and Technology (TST), 2015

Advisor Awards for Excellent B.E Thesis in Hubei Province, 2014

The Second Class Award in Electronics Information Science and Technology of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2011

Advisor Award for Excellent Master Thesis in Hubei Province, 2010

Ph.D Students

　

2026: Aoyang Tong

2025: Shuming Guo, Xumin Chen

2024: Mengyang Yan, Shuaijun Zhou

2023: Zhijun Yang, Yujie Hu

2022: Menglei Chen, Gen Dong

2021: Yuxuan Mo

2020: Bolun Zhu

2019: Ming Zhang (Top Minds and A-Star)

2018: Jianming Huang

2017: Zhangyu Chen (A-Star), Pengfei Li (Top Minds)

2016: Xinxin Liu

2014: Pengfei Zuo (Top Minds), Yuanyuan Sun (DAMO Academy)

　

Master Students

　

2025: Yan Liu, Yuezhang Long, Huaiyu Chen

2024: Yixiao Wang, Yifei Shao, Yong Pan

2023: Aoyang Tong

2022: Xiangyu Xiang, Yujie Shi, Ruiting Ma

2021: Luochangqi Ding

2020: Rong Bai, Ziyin Long, Jiajie Sheng, Xincheng Xie

2019: Lurong Liu, Hao Xu, Bo Ding

2018: Qifan Liu, Xiaomeng Li, Jingnan Jia, Xuan Li

2017: Qin Cao

2016: Ziyi Li, Rong Hu

2015: Yuncheng Guo, Jie Wu

2014: Shunde Cao, Ling Yang

2013: Bin Peng, Linqian Wu, Zhou Feng

2012: Rongyu Lai, Zhenhua Nie, Juan Cai, Bai Li

2011: Dazhang Huang, Yu Li, Qian Zhao

2010: Jienan Zeng, Yunsheng Zhu, Shuangning He, Fei Wang

2009: Tianyao Wu, Jia Hu, Tao Lu, Heng Zhao
2008: Yuhua Guo, Wen Xia, Yang Li, Mengying Gao
2007: Chen Hu, Guodong Li, Jinjun Liu

　

Awards/Offers won by members of research group:

Zhijun Yang was selected as Artifact Evaluation Committee Member in USENIX ATC 2025.

Menglei Chen received FAST 2025 Student Grant.

Yuxuan Mo received EuroSys 2025 Grant and was invited to give a talk in WOSCI 2025 (co-located with ASPLOS 2025/EuroSys 2025).

Gen Dong was selected as Artifact Evaluation Committee Member in EuroSys 2025.

Jianming Huang received the Doctoral Dissertation Award Nominee in CCF Information Storage Technology 2024.

Ming Zhang received OSDI 2024 Student Grant and became a visiting Ph.D student in University of Toronto, 2023-2024.

Zhangyu Chen received the Doctoral Dissertation Award Nominee in CCF Computer Architecture 2023 and USENIX ATC 2019 Grant, was selected as Artifact Evaluation Committee Members in SOSP 2021 and OSDI 2020, and as Young Student Fellow in DAC 2020, and was invited to give a talk in HotDC 2017.

Pengfei Li, Jianming Huang and Ming Zhang were selected as Artifact Evaluation Committee Members in ASPLOS 2021.

Pengfei Li received the Doctoral Dissertation Award in ACM SIGOPS ChinaSys 2023 and was selected as Shadow Program Committee Member in EuroSys 2021.

Mingxuan Zhang was recommended and became a Master student in University of California San Diego, 2020.

Wen Xia and Pengfei Zuo respectively received the Rising Star Award and Doctoral Dissertation Award in ACM SIGOPS ChinaSys, 2020 (reported by ACM SIGOPS).

Pengfei Zuo received ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award (National Winner) 2020, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Nominee in CCF 2020, the student grants from OSDI 2018 and MICRO 2019-2018 and became a visiting Ph.D student in University of California at Santa Barbara, 2018.

Mingyao Shen was recommended and became a Ph.D student in University of California San Diego, 2018.

Yun Luo was recommended and became a Master student in Carnegie Mellon University, 2018.

Xinxin Liu was selected as Artifact Evaluation Committee Member in OSDI 2020, received the ICDCS 2019 Grant, and ACM SOSP 2017 Student Scholarship.

Yuanyuan Sun received ACM SoCC 2017 Student Scholarship, USENIX ATC 2017 Grant, and ACM SOSP 2017 Student Scholarship.

Jie Wu became an intern in Microsoft Search Technology Center, 2017 and received the job offer from Google, Waterloo, Canada, 2018.

Jujunfeng Shen was recommended and became a Master student in University of Southern California, 2016.

Qiuyu Li was recommended and became a Master student in The University of Edinburgh, 2014.

Tao Lu and Yuhua Guo were recommended and became Ph.D students in Virginia Commonwealth University, 2012, 2013.

I received the 3rd Prize in Hong Kong International Dragon Boat Races, 2006.