Brief Biography: Dr.Yu Hua was Postdoc Research Fellow in University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2010-2011, Postdoc Research Associate in McGill University in 2009, Research Assistant in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2006 and Research Intern in Bell Labs Research China in 2003. He obtained his B.E and Ph.D degrees from Wuhan University respectively in 2001 and 2005. His research interests include cloud storage systems, file systems, non-volatile memory architectures, etc. His papers have been published in major conferences and journals, including OSDI, FAST, MICRO, ASPLOS, VLDB, USENIX ATC, HPCA. He is the Associate Editor in ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) (2023-). He serves as PC (vice) Chairs in ICDCS 2021, ACM APSys 2019, and ICPADS 2016, Best Paper Award Committee Member in USENIX ATC (2021/2018), and PC or ERC in OSDI, SIGCOMM, FAST, NSDI, ASPLOS, ISCA, MICRO, HPCA. He received the Best Paper Awards in FAST 2023 and IEEE HPCC 2021. He is the distinguished member of CCF, senior member of ACM and IEEE, and the member of ACM SIGOPS, ACM SIGBED and USENIX. He has been selected as the Distinguished Speaker of ACM and CCF. Open-source codes are released in yhuacode.


  • I am looking for motivated postdoc, graduate students and undergraduate interns who are interested in persistent memory systems, learned storage systems, debugging, memory architectures. If you are interested in these topics, please feel free to contact with me.

  • Our paper "Light-Dedup: A Light-weight Inline Deduplication Framework for Non-Volatile Memory File Systems" is accepted by USENIX ATC 2023. Congratulations.

  • I serve as the Associate Editor in ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS).

  • Our paper "ROLEX: A Scalable RDMA-oriented Learned Key-Value Store for Disaggregated Memory Systems" is accepted by FAST 2023 and receives the Best Paper Award. Congratulations to Pengfei Li.

  • Our papers "Root Crash Consistency of SGX-style Integrity Trees in Secure Non-Volatile Memory Systems" and "Silo: Speculative Hardware Logging for Atomic Durability in Persistent Memory" are accepted by HPCA 2023. Congratulations to Jianming and Ming.

  • Our paper "FORD: Fast One-sided RDMA-based Distributed Transactions for Disaggregated Persistent Memory" is accepted by FAST 2022. Congratulations to Ming.

  • Our paper "FINEdex: A Fine-grained Learned Index Scheme for Scalable and Concurrent Memory Systems" is accepted by VLDB 2022. Congratulations to Pengfei.

  • Our paper "Efficiently Detecting Concurrency Bugs in Persistent Memory Programs" is accepted by ASPLOS 2022 and receives ACM Badges, including "Artifact Available, Artifact Evaluated-Functional and Results Reproduced". Congratulations to Zhangyu.

  • I serve as the Program Committee Member in ASPLOS 2024, FAST 2024, NSDI 2024, SIGCOMM 2023, USENIX ATC 2023.

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[USENIX ATC] Jiansheng Qiu, Yanqi Pan, Wen Xia, Xiaojia Huang, Wenjun Wu, Xiangyu Zou, Shiyi Li, Yu Hua, "Light-Dedup: A Light-weight Inline Deduplication Framework for Non-Volatile Memory File Systems", Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), 2023. (Acceptance rate: 65/353=18.4%), Awarded with USENIX Badges: Artifact Available, Artifact Functional, Results Reproduced

[FAST] Pengfei Li, Yu Hua, Pengfei Zuo, Zhangyu Chen, Jiajie Sheng, "ROLEX: A Scalable RDMA-oriented Learned Key-Value Store for Disaggregated Memory Systems", Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2023, pages: 99-114. (Acceptance rate: 28/122=23%) Slides; Source code with 37 GitHub Stars; Best Paper Award; Press: WNLO, HUST; One of FAST 2023 papers selected for fast-track publication in ACM Transactions on Storage

[HPCA] Jianming Huang, Yu Hua, "Root Crash Consistency of SGX-style Integrity Trees in Secure Non-Volatile Memory Systems", Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2023, pages: 152-164. (Acceptance rate: 91/364=25%) Slides

[HPCA] Ming Zhang, Yu Hua, "Silo: Speculative Hardware Logging for Atomic Durability in Persistent Memory", Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2023, pages: 651-663. (Acceptance rate: 91/364=25%) Slides

[FAST] Ming Zhang, Yu Hua, Pengfei Zuo, Lurong Liu, "FORD: Fast One-sided RDMA-based Distributed Transactions for Disaggregated Persistent Memory", Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2022, pages: 51-67. (Acceptance rate: 28/130=21.5%) Slides, Source code with 32 GitHub Stars

[VLDB] Pengfei Li, Yu Hua, Jingnan Jia, Pengfei Zuo, "FINEdex: A Fine-grained Learned Index Scheme for Scalable and Concurrent Memory Systems", Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2022, pages: 321-334. Slides, Source code with 19 GitHub Stars

[ASPLOS] Zhangyu Chen, Yu Hua, Yongle Zhang, Luochangqi Ding, "Efficiently Detecting Concurrency Bugs in Persistent Memory Programs", Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2022, pages: 873-887. (Acceptance rate: 80/397=20%) Slides, Source code, Awarded with ACM Badges: Artifact Available, Artifact Evaluated-Functional, Results Reproduced

[HPCA] Jianming Huang, Yu Hua, "A Write-Friendly and Fast-Recovery Scheme for Security Metadata in Non-Volatile Memories", Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2021, pages:359-370. (Acceptance rate: 63/258=24.4%) Slides, Talk in NVMW 2022, Talk in ACM SIGOPS ChinaSys 2021, Press: WNLO

[USENIX ATC] Pengfei Zuo, Jiazhao Sun, Liu Yang, Shuangwu Zhang, Yu Hua, "One-sided RDMA-Conscious Extendible Hashing for Disaggregated Memory", Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), 2021, pages:15-29. (Acceptance rate: 64/341=18.8%) Slides, One of USENIX ATC 2021 papers selected for fast-track publication in ACM Transactions on Storage

[USENIX ATC] Zhangyu Chen, Yu Hua, Bo Ding, Pengfei Zuo, "Lock-free Concurrent Level Hashing for Persistent Memory", Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), 2020, pages: 799-812. (Acceptance rate: 65/348=18.7%) Slides, Source code with 43 GitHub Stars, Invited talk in IEEE NVMSA 2020, Talk in PIRL 2020

[MICRO] Pengfei Zuo, Yu Hua, Yuan Xie, "SuperMem: Enabling Application-transparent Secure Persistent Memory with Low Overheads", Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2019, pages: 479-492. (Acceptance rate: 79/344=23%) Slides

[USENIX ATC] Yuanyuan Sun, Yu Hua, Zhangyu Chen, Yuncheng Guo, "Mitigating Asymmetric Read and Write Costs in Cuckoo Hashing for Storage Systems", Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), 2019, pages: 329-343. (Acceptance rate: 71/356=19.9%) Source code, Slides, Video

[FAST] Yucheng Zhang, Wen Xia, Dan Feng, Hong Jiang, Yu Hua, Qiang Wang, "Finesse: Fine-Grained Feature Locality based Fast Resemblance Detection for Post-Deduplication Delta Compression", Proceedings of the 17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2019, pages: 121-128. (Acceptance rate: 26/145=18%)

[OSDI] Pengfei Zuo, Yu Hua, Jie Wu, "Write-Optimized and High-Performance Hashing Index Scheme for Persistent Memory", Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2018, pages: 461-476. (Acceptance rate: 47/257=18%) BibTeX, Slides, Source code with 186 GitHub Stars, Memorable Paper Award Finalist in NVMW 2019, Press: CSDN, One of OSDI 2018 papers selected for fast-track publication in ACM Transactions on Storage

[MICRO] Pengfei Zuo, Yu Hua, Ming Zhao, Wen Zhou, Yuncheng Guo, "Improving the Performance and Endurance of Encrypted Non-volatile Main Memory through Deduplicating Writes", Proceedings of the 51st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2018, pages:442-454. (Acceptance rate: 74/351=21%) Slides, Video

[USENIX ATC] Yuanyuan Sun, Yu Hua, Song Jiang, Qiuyu Li, Shunde Cao, Pengfei Zuo, "SmartCuckoo: A Fast and Cost-Efficient Hashing Index Scheme for Cloud Storage Systems", Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), July 2017, pages: 553-566. (Acceptance rate: 60/283=21%). Slides, Source code with 17 Stars

[USENIX ATC] Wen Xia, Yukun Zhou, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Yuchong Hu, Yucheng Zhang, Qing Liu, "FastCDC: a Fast and Efficient Content-Defined Chunking Approach for Data Deduplication", Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), June 2016, pages: 101-114. (Acceptance rate: 47/248=19%)

[FAST] Min Fu, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Xubin He, Zuoning Chen, Wen Xia, Yucheng Zhang, Yujuan Tan, "Design Tradeoffs for Data Deduplication Performance in Backup Workloads", Proceedings of  the 13th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), February 2015, pages:331-344. (Acceptance rate: 28/130=21.5%)

[USENIX ATC] Min Fu, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Xubin He, Zuoning Chen, Wen Xia, Fangting Huang, Qing Liu, "Accelerating Restore and Garbage Collection in Deduplication-based Backup Systems via Exploiting Historical Information", Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), June 2014, pages: 181-192. (Acceptance rate: 36/241=14.9%).

[USENIX ATC] Wen Xia, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, “SiLo: A Similarity-Locality based Near-Exact Deduplication Scheme with Low RAM Overhead and High Throughput,”  Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), June 2011. (Acceptance rate: 27/180=15%)


Full Publication List ...

 

Academic Member:

 

Distinguished Member: CCF (2018-)

Senior Member: ACM (2016-) and IEEE (2013-)

Member: USENIX, ACM SIGOPS, ACM SIGBED

 

Review Committee Member:

 

National Key Research and Development Program of China: 2021.

Israel Science Foundation: 2020.

Mitacs in Canada: 2022, 2018, 2017, 2016.

General Research Fund in Hong Kong Research Grants Council: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018.

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: 2021, 2020, 2018.

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and Fellow in CCF: 2021.

Rising Star and Doctorial Dissertation Award in ACM China SIGOPS: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018.

Best Paper Award Committee Member in USENIX ATC: 2021, 2018

 

Editor:

 

Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) (2023- )

 

 

Chair or PC Member in Conferences:

 

General Co-Chairs: SDDCS 2017 with ASPLOS 2017, SDDCS 2018 with ASPLOS 2018.

Program (Co-)Chairs: ACM SIGOPS ChinaSys 2022 (with Zhaoguo Wang), ICDCS 2021 (Vice, with Evgenia Smirni), IEEE CLOUD 2021 (Vice, with Qinghua Li), ACM APSys 2019 (with Ding Yuan), IEEE NAS 2019, IEEE ICPADS 2016 (Vice, with Xubin He)

 

Program Committee Member:

OSDI: 2021

SOSP: 2017 (Poster&SRC)

FAST: 2024, 2023, 2020

ASPLOS: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021-2017 (ERC)

SIGCOMM: 2023

NSDI: 2024

ISCA (ERC): 2022, 2020

MICRO (ERC): 2022, 2021, 2020

HPCA (ERC): 2022, 2021

USENIX ATC: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

SC: 2019

EuroSys: 2022, 2021

Middleware: 2023, 2021, 2020

ACM SoCC: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018

ICDCS: 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

IPDPS: 2023, 2019, 2017

MSST: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016

SRDS: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

ACM SYSTOR: 2022

DAC: 2023, 2022

ACM/IEEE ICCPS: 2020, 2019

DATE: 2020, 2019, 2018

HotStorage: 2020, 2019, 2018

ICCD: 2022, 2018

[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.

[HotDC] "Secure Persistent Memory Systems: Hardware Software Co-design", The 4th Workshop on Hot Topics on Data Centers (HotDC), December 2019. See the News.

[NCIS]"System Security and Computing Models in Persistent Memory", The 25th National Conference of Information Storage (NCIS), 2019.

[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.

[NCIS]"Non-Volatile Memory Security: New Architecture and New Ecosystem", The 24th National Conference of Information Storage (NCIS), 2018.

[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.

[NCIS]"Semi-Hierarchical Semantic Storage Architecture", The 23rd National Conference of Information Storage (NCIS), 2017.

[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.

[ORNL]"Approximate Storage Methodology: Systems and Architecture", Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2015.

[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", in 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: "Software and Hardware Co-design in Persistent Memory for Blockchain Storage", Joint Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2023-2026.

PI: "Non-volatile Memory Systems", National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 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)

Best Paper Award in FAST 2023.

Outstanding Contribution Award in Journal of Integration Technology, 2022.

Best Paper Award in IEEE HPCC 2021.

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

 

2023: Zhijun Yang, Yujie Hu

2022: Menglei Chen, Gen Dong

2021: Yuxuan Mo

2020: Bolun Zhu

2019: Ming Zhang

2018: Jianming Huang

2017: Zhangyu Chen, Pengfei Li

2016: Xinxin Liu

2014: Pengfei Zuo, Yuanyuan Sun

2011: Min Fu (co-supervised with Dan Feng)

2010: Wen Zhou (co-supervised with Dan Feng)

2009: Jinjun Liu, Wen Xia (co-supervised with Dan Feng)

 

Master Students

 

2023: Jiayi Liu, Aoyang Tong

2022: Xiangyu Xiang, Yujie Shi, Ruiting Ma

2021: Luochangqi Ding, Yuping Zhang

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:

Zhangyu Chen was selected as Artifact Evaluation Committee Members in SOSP 2021 and OSDI 2020, and as Young Student Fellow in DAC 2020, received the USENIX ATC 2019 Grant 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 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.