Rong Chen (陈榕)

Professor at School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Member of Institute of Parallel And Distributed Systems
Email: rongchen at sjtu dot edu dot cn (rongchen@sjtu.edu.cn)

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I have been a Full Professor in School of Software at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a member of Institute of Parallel And Distributed Systems (IPADS) since February 2012. I received a Ph.D degree (2011) from the Fudan University, under the guidance of Prof. Binyu Zang. My research interests include operating systems, parallel and distributed systems, and hardware-software co-design, with a current focus on building high-performance, scalable, and working systems. My work has been recognized by Best Paper Award from EuroSys (2024 and 2015), ICPP (2007), and APSys (2017), as well as Huawei OlympusMons Pioneer Award (2020).

I am currently looking for self-motivated students with good background on systems related area. Drop me an E-mail if you have interests to work with me.

Google Scholar | DBLP | CSRankings | Systems Circus | SOSP/OSDI Hall of Fame

• Enabling Full-fledge GPUs and Beyond
  • REEF: Microsecond-scale preemption for concurrent GPU-based DNN inferences. OSDI'22
  • UGache: A unified GPU cache for embedding-based deep learning. SOSP'23

• Systems for AI and AI for Systems
  • XStore: Fast RDMA-based ordered K/V store using Learned Cache. OSDI'20 | ACM TOS
  • GNNLab: Accelerating GNN training through systems-level innovation. EuroSys'21 | EuroSys'22 | VLDB'24
  • DISB: A new DNN inference serving benchmark for emerging AI application scenarios.

• Emerging Distributed Systems
  • Vegito/GART: Retrofitting high-availability mechanism for hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP). OSDI'21 ATC'23
  • MITOSIS: Advancing serverless computing (FaaS) with kernel-level capabilities. OSDI'23 EuroSys'24 NSDI'25
  • Improving reliability and performance of applications on disaggregated memory (DM).

• Unleashing Modern Datacenter Networks
  • librdpma: Characterizing and optimizing remote persistent memory. USENIX ATC'21
  • KRCORE: A microsecond-scale RDMA control plane for elastic computing. USENIX ATC'22
  • SmartnicKit: Characterizing off-path SmartNICs/DPUs for accelerating distributed systems. OSDI'23
  • FissLock: Fast and scalable in-network lock management using lock fission. OSDI'24

• Wukong: Fast and Concurrent Query Processing on Big (Linked) Data ACM SIGOPS OSR
  • Fast and concurrent RDF queries with RDMA-based CPU/GPU graph exploration. OSDI'16 | USENIX ATC'18 | IEEE TPDS
  • Sub-millisecond stateful stream querying over fast-evolving linked data. SOSP'17
  • Type-centric optimizer for query processing on graph. APSys'18 | SOCC'21
  • Split live migration for traversal workloads on graph databases. USENIX ATC'19 | IEEE TPDS

• DrTM: Efficient and Scalable In-memory Transaction Processing
  • Fast in-memory transaction processing using RDMA and HTM. SOSP'15 | ACM TOCS | EuroSys'16
  • Replication-driven live reconfiguration. USENIX ATC'17 | IEEE TPDS
  • Deconstructing distributed transactions with hybrid RDMA primitives. OSDI'18
  • Decentralized scalar timestamp for MVCC. NSDI'21

• Efficient and Reliable Large-scale Graph Analytics Platform
  • PowerLyra: Differentiated graph computation and partitioning. EuroSys'15 | ACM TOPC | APSys'14 | JCST
  • Polymer: NUMA-aware graph-structured analytics framework. PPoPP'15
  • PowerSwitch: Adaptive prediction and mode switch on graph computation PPoPP'15
  • Imitator: Replication-based fault-tolerance for graph processing. DSN'14 | IEEE TPDS
  • Cyclops: Computation and communication efficient graph processing. HPDC'14

• Scalability, Reliability and Availability of System Software
  • Efficient and flexible MapReduce processing on multicore with Tiling. PACT'10 | ACM TACO
  • Cerberus: Scaling applications to many-core with OS clustering). EuroSys'11
  • Corey: An operating system for many cores. OSDI'08
  • Mercury: Combining performance with dependability using Self-virtualization. ICPP'07 | JCST
  • POLUS and LUCOS: Dynamic updating for system software. ICSE'07 | VEE'06

• Program Committee Members
  • OSDI: USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
    2025 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
  • SOSP: ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
    2024 | 2023
  • EuroSys: European Conference on Computer Systems
    2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2015
  • USENIX ATC: USENIX Annual Technical Conference
    2024 | 2017
  • FAST: USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
    2023 | 2022
  • ASPLOS: ACM Intl. Conf. on Arch. Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
    2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2018
    
  • NSDI: USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
    2024
    
    
  • VEE 2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017, Middleware 2019 | 2017, MSST 2020 | 2019, APSys 2022 | 2018 | 2017, SOSP/SRC 2019, EuroDW 2021, ISMM 2019/ERC, CloudCom 2014

• Conference Organizers
  • ChinaSys: 2018 (PC Co-chair)
  • SOSP: 2021 (AMA Co-organizer)
  • ICPADS: 2021 (Track Co-chair for High-Performance Computing & Architecture)

• Journal Editorship
  • Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (2024–now)
  • Editorial Board of Young Scientists: Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2023–now)
  • Youth Editorial Board Members: CCF Transactions on High Performance Computing (2023–now)
  • Editor of Columns: Communications of the CCF (2023–now)

More details

• Second prize of the State Technological Invention Award, 2024. News
• Best Paper Award of EuroSys, 2024. Link
• Honorable Mention of Gilles Muller Best Artifact Award of EuroSys, 2022. Link
• Honorable Mention of Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award (Co-advisor), 2021. Link
• Distinguished Member of China Computer Federation (CCF), 2021.
• Young Scholar of Chang Jiang Scholars Program by Ministry of Education, 2021.
• Huawei OlympusMons Pioneer Award, 2020. Link
• First prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Award for Technical Invention, 2019.
• First prize of Technology Invention Award by Ministry of Education, 2018.
• ACM ChinaSys Rising Star, 2018. Link
• Candlelight Award of SJTU, 2017.
• Best Paper Award of APSys, 2017. Link
• New Teaching Star of SJTU, 2016.
• Best Paper Award of EuroSys, 2015. Link
• Best Paper Award of ICPP, 2007. Message

• 2014.9 - 2015.3 Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore
• 2008.1 - 2008.6 Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia (Advisor: Prof. Frans Kaashoek)

Full publication list

Summary	OSDI(10) SOSP(3) EuroSys(6) Usenix ATC(6)
Award	Best Paper: EuroSys'15 EuroSys'24
	Best Artifact: EuroSys'22 (Honorable Mention)

• [OSDI] Fast and Scalable In-network Lock Management Using Lock Fission. Hanze Zhang, Ke Cheng, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, CA, US, July 2024. paper | usenix.org | slides | talk | github

• [EuroSys] Serialization/Deserialization-free State Transfer in Serverless Workflows. Fangming Lu, Xingda Wei, Zhuobin Huang, Rong Chen, Mingyu Wu, and Haibo Chen. The 19th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Athens, Greece, April 2024. paper | ACM DL | github Best Paper Award award | Link
  Awarded with ACM Badges v1.1: Artifact Available.
  Full version paper: will appear in ACM TOCS.

• [SOSP] UGACHE: A Unified GPU Cache for Embedding-based Deep Learning Systems. Xiaoniu Song, Yiwen Zhang, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Koblenz, Germany, October 2023. paper | AE | github | ACM DL
  Awarded with ACM Badges v1.1: Artifact Available, Artifact Functional, Results Reproduced. link

• [OSDI] No Provisioned Concurrency: Fast RDMA-codesigned Remote Fork for Serverless Computing. Xingda Wei, Fangming Lu, Tianxia Wang, Jinyu Gu, Yuhan Yang, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, US, July 2023. paper | usenix.org | slides | talk | MitosisOS

• [OSDI] Characterizing Off-path SmartNIC for Accelerating Distributed Systems. Xingda Wei, Rongxin Cheng, Yuhan Yang, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, US, July 2023. paper | usenix.org | slides | talk | Smartbench

• [OSDI] Automated Verification of Idempotence for Stateful Serverless Applications. Haoran Ding, Zhaoguo Wang, Zhuohao Shen, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, US, July 2023. paper | usenix.org | slides | talk

• [USENIX ATC] Bridging the Gap between Relational OLTP and Graph-based OLAP. Sijie Shen, Zihang Yao, Lin Shi, Lei Wang, Longbin Lai, Qian Tao, Li Su, Rong Chen*, Wenyuan Yu, Haibo Chen, Binyu Zang, and Jingren Zhou. 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, US, July 2023. paper | usenix.org | slides | talk | github
  Awarded with USENIX Badges: Artifacts Available.

• [OSDI] Microsecond-scale Preemption for Concurrent GPU-accelerated DNN Inferences. Mingcong Han, Hanze Zhang, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 16th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Carlsbad, CA, US, July 2022. paper | AE | github | DISB
  Awarded with USENIX Badges: Artifacts Available, Artifacts Functional, Results Reproduced. link

• [USENIX ATC] KRCORE: A Microsecond-scale RDMA Control Plane for Elastic Computing. Xingda Wei, Fangming Lu, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. 2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Carlsbad, CA, US. July 2022. paper | AE | github
  Awarded with USENIX Badges: Artifacts Available, Artifacts Functional, Results Reproduced. link

• [EuroSys] GNNLab: A Factored System for Sample-based GNN Training over GPUs. Jianbang Yang, Dahai Tang, Xiaoniu Song, Lei Wang, Qiang Yin, Rong Chen*, Wenyuan Yu, and Jingren Zhou. The 17th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Rennes, France, April 2022. paper | AE | github | ACM DL Best Artifact Award (Honorable Mention) award｜link
  Awarded with ACM Badges v1.1: Artifact Available, Artifact Functional, Results Reproduced. link

• [OSDI] Retrofitting High Availability Mechanism to Tame Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing. Sijie Shen, Rong Chen*, Haibo Chen, and Binyu Zang. The 15th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, CA, US, July 2021. paper | slides | talk | github
  Awarded with USENIX Badge: Artifacts Available. link

• [USENIX ATC] Characterizing and Optimizing Remote Persistent Memory with RDMA and NVM. Xingda Wei, Xiating Xie, Rong Chen*, Haibo Chen, and Binyu Zang. 2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, July 2021. paper | talk | github

• [EuroSys] FlexGraph: A Flexible and Efficient Distributed Framework for GNN Training. Lei Wang, Qiang Yin, Chao Tian, Jianbang Yang, Rong Chen*, Wenyuan Yu, Zihang Yao, and Jingren Zhou. The 16th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, April 2021. paper | slides | long talk | short talk | ACM DL

• [OSDI] Fast RDMA-based Ordered Key-Value Store using Remote Learned Cache. Xingda Wei, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2020. paper | talk | github | ACM DL
  Awarded with USENIX Badges: Artifacts Available, Artifacts Functional, Results Reproduced. link
  Full version paper: ACM TOS (selected for fast-track publication for OSDI 2020)

• [USENIX ATC] Pragh: Locality-preserving Graph Traversal with Split Live Migration. Xiating Xie, Xingda Wei, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Renton, WA, US, July 2019. paper | lightning slides | slides | talk
  Full version paper: IEEE TPDS

• [OSDI] Deconstructing RDMA-enabled Transaction Processing: Hybrid is Better! Xingda Wei, Zhiyuan Dong, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Carlsbad, CA, US, October 2018. paper | slides | talk | github

• [USENIX ATC] Fast and Concurrent RDF Queries using RDMA-assisted GPU Graph Exploration. Siyuan Wang, Chang Lou, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. 2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, US, July 2018. paper | slides | github
  Full version paper: IEEE TPDS

• [SOSP] Sub-millisecond Stateful Stream Querying over Fast-evolving Linked Data. Yunhao Zhang, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 26th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Shanghai, China, October 2017. updated paper | poster | slides | github | ACM DL

• [USENIX ATC] Replication-driven Live Reconfiguration for Fast Distributed Transaction Processing. Xingda Wei, Sijie Shen, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Santa Clara, CA, US, July 2017. paper | slides | talk
  Full version paper: IEEE TPDS

• [OSDI] Fast and Concurrent RDF Queries with RDMA-based Distributed Graph Exploration. Jiaxin Shi, Youyang Yao, Rong Chen*, Haibo Chen, and Feifei Li. The 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Savannah, GA, US, November 2016. paper | slides | poster | homepage | github | ACM DL
  Abridged version paper of Wukong project: ACM SIGOPS OSR

• [EuroSys] Fast and General Distributed Transactions Using RDMA and HTM. Yanzhe Chen, Xingda Wei, Jiaxin Shi, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 11th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, London, UK, April 2016. paper | slides | ACM DL

• [SOSP] Fast In-memory Transaction Processing using RDMA and HTM. Xingda Wei, Jiaxin Shi, Yanzhe Chen, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 25th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Monterey, CA, USA, October 2015. paper | slides | poster | ACM DL | github
  Featured on "The Morning Paper"
  Full version paper: ACM TOCS

• [EuroSys] PowerLyra: Differentiated Graph Computation and Partitioning on Skewed Graphs.
  Rong Chen, Jiaxin Shi, Yanzhe Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 10th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Bordeaux, France, April 2015. paper | slides | poster | ACM DL | homepage | github Best Paper Award award | link
  Full version paper: ACM TOPC

• [EuroSys] A Case for Scaling Applications to Many-core with OS Clustering. Xiang Song, Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, Yuanxuan Wang, and Binyu Zang. The 6th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Salzburg, Austria, April 2011. paper | ACM DL

• [PACT] Tiled MapReduce: Optimizing Resource Usages of Data-parallel Applications on Multicore with Tiling. Rong Chen, Haibo Chen and Binyu Zang. The 19th International Conference on Parallel Arch. and Compilation Techniques, Vienna, Austria, September 2010. pdf | slides | ACM DL
  Full version paper: ACM TACO

• [OSDI] Corey: An Operating System for Many Cores. Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, Yandong Mao, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris, Aleksey Pesterev, Lex Stein, Ming Wu, Yuehua Dai, Yang Zhang, and Zheng Zhang. The 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, San Diego, CA, December 2008. paper | ACM DL | homepage | code

• [Chinese] 面向智能应用的算力硬件调度与管理, 2024. talk
• Towards “Intelligence, Storage, Network”: Characterizing, Optimizing, and Outlooking, 2023. talk
• [Chinese] 面向新算力硬件体系的调度技术挑战——操作系统视角, 2023. talk
• [Chinese] 新硬件驱动的系统软件研究——性能、功能、智能, 2022. talk
• [Chinese] 面向异构硬件体系的系统软件支撑和优化技术, 2022. talk
• Evaluation-centric Research: Experiences from A Decade of Systems Research, 2022. talk
• GNNLab: A Factored System for Sample-based GNN Training over GPUs, 2022. talk
• [Chinese] 面向RDMA键值存储的智能缓存, 2021. talk
• [Chinese] 《分布式系统》课程建设与教学实践, 2021. talk
• [Chinese] 基于功能复用构建高性价比分布式系统——以分布式数据复制为例, 2020. talk
• [Chinese] 基于新型硬件体系的图计算系统栈, 2020. talk
• Building In-memory Graph Store for Fast and Concurrent Querying, 2018. talk
• Fast and Concurrent RDF Queries using RDMA-assisted GPU Graph Exploration, 2017. talk
• Building EfficientIn-memory Computing Systemsby Combing Hardware Features, 2017. talk

• Introduction to Computer Systems: 2024 – 2012
• Operating Systems: 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013
• Distributed Systems: 2016, 2015, 2014
• Advanced Distributed Systems: 2024 – 2017, 2013, 2012
• Computer System Design & Implementation: 2019, 2018, 2017

• Xiaoniu Song (Ph.D)
• Mingcong Han (Ph.D)
• Hanze Zhang (Ph.D)
• Rongxin Cheng (Ph.D, co-advised with Xingda Wei)
• Jiali Wang (Ph.D)
• Weihang Shen (Ph.D)
• Jinrong Yang (Ph.D)

• Xingda Wei (graduated in 2021, co-advised with Binyu Zang and Haibo Chen)
  PhD Thesis: Fast Distributed Transaction Processing using RDMA and NVM
  First Appointment: Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention) Link
  ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award Nominee Link
  ACM ChinaSys Doctoral Dissertation Award Link
• Sijie Shen (graduated in 2023, co-advised with Binyu Zang)
  PhD Thesis: Efficient Large-scale Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing Systems
  First Appointment: A-Star, Alibaba Group

• 2024: Baorong Ding, Lin Shi, Tianxia Wang, Fangming Lu
• 2023: Zihang Yao, Yushen Xu
• 2022: Jianbang Yang, Jinqi Wu
• 2021: Xiating Xie, Zhenhan Gong, Xuehan Ke, Wenhao Zhang, Yilun Wu
• 2020: Siyuan Wang, Ning Wang, Yaozeng Zeng
• 2019: Youyang Yao, Xiaoli Zhou
• 2018: Xiang Xue,
• 2017: Jiaxin Shi, Yanzhe Chen
• 2015: Peng Wang, Chenning Xie

• Ke Zhong, Ph.D Student at University of Pennsylvnia (2019)
• Chang Lou (visiting), Ph.D Student at John Hopkins University (2018)
• Yunhao Zhang, Ph.D Student at U. Cornell (2017)
• Kaiyuan Zhang, Ph.D student at University of Washington (2015)