Professor
Institute of Parallel And Distributed Systems
School of Software
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Software Building, 800 Dongchuan Rd., Shanghai, China
Zip/Postal Code: 200240
Email: rongchen at sjtu dot edu dot cn (rongchen@sjtu.edu.cn)

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I am a professor in School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I earned my PhD in the System Research Group of Parallel Processing Institute at Fudan University, advised by Prof. Binyu Zang. My research interests include parallel and distributed processing, operating systems, system virtualization, and currently focus on improving performance, scalability and reliability of distributed systems.

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 | Systems Research: Hall of Fame

• Systems for AI and AI for Systems
  • Fast RDMA-based Ordered Key-Value Store using Remote Learned Cache [OSDI'20 ACM TOS]
  • FlexGraph: A flexible and efficient distributed framework for GNN training [EuroSys'21]

• Wukong: Fast and Concurrent Query Processing on Big (Linked) Data ACM SIGOPS OSR
  • Fast and Concurrent RDF Queries with RDMA-based Graph Exploration [OSDI'16 USENIX ATC'18]
  • Sub-millisecond Stateful Stream Querying over Fast-evolving Linked Data [SOSP'17]
  • Optimizer for Query Processing on Graph Store [APSys'18]
  • Split Live Migration for Graph Traversal [USENIX ATC'19]
  • Type-centric Optimizer for Query Processing over Knowledge Graphs [ACM SoCC'21]

• DrTM: Efficient and Scalable In-memory Transaction Processing
  • Fast In-memory Transaction Processing using RDMA and HTM [SOSP'15 ACM TOCS EuroSys'16 OSDI'18]
  • Replication-driven Live Reconfiguration [USENIX ATC'17]
  • Decentralized Scalar Timestamp [NSDI'21]
  • Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing [OSDI'21]
  • Characterizing and Optimizing Remote Persistent Memory [USENIX ATC'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 TPDS]
  • Cyclops: Computation and Communication Efficient Graph Processing [HPDC'14]

• Scalability, Reliability and Availability of System Software
  • Ostrich: 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: 2021 | 2020
  • SOSP: 2019/SRC
  • ASPLOS: 2018
  • USENIX ATC: 2017
  • EuroSys: 2015
  • FAST: 2022
  • VEE: 2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017
  • Middleware: 2019 | 2017
  • MSST: 2020 | 2019
  • Others: ICDCS 2022, EuroDW 2021, ISMM 2019/ERC, APSys 2018 | 2017, UCC 2017, CloudCom 2014

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

• Distinguished Member, China Computer Federation (CCF), 2021
• Changjiang Young Scholars Program by the Ministry of Education, 2021
• Huawei OlympusMons Pioneer Award, 2020 Link
• First prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Award for Technical Invention, 2019
• First prize of the Ministry of Education Technology Invention Award, 2018
• The Candlelight Award of SJTU (The 2nd Prize), 2017
• Best Paper Award, APSys 2017
• The New Teaching Star of SJTU, 2016
• Best Paper Award, EuroSys 2015.
• Best Paper Award, ICPP 2007.

• 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

• [OSDI] Retrofitting High Availability Mechanism to Tame Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing. Sijie Shen, Rong Chen, Haibo Chen, Binyu Zang. The 15th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, CA, US, July 2021. [paper]

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

• [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

• [NSDI] Unifying Timestamp with Transaction Ordering for MVCC with Decentralized Scalar Timestamp. Xingda Wei, Rong Chen, Haibo Chen, Zhaoguo Wang, Zhenhan Gong, and Binyu Zang. The 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, US, April 2021. [paper] talk github

• [OSDI] Fast RDMA-based Ordered Key-Value Store using Remote Learned Cache. Xingda Wei, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2020. [paper] talk github
  Full version paper: ACM TOS

• [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] talk

• [OSDI] Deconstructing RDMA-enabled Transaction Processing: Hybrid is Better! Xingda Wei, Zhiyuan Dong, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. 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]

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

• [USENIX ATC] Replication-driven Live Reconfiguration for Fast Distributed Transaction Processing. Xingda Wei, Sijie Shen, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Santa Clara, CA, US, July 2017. [paper]

• [OSDI] Fast and Concurrent RDF Queries with RDMA-based Distributed Graph Exploration. Jiaxin Shi, Youyang Yao, Rong Chen, Haibo Chen, and Feifei Li. 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Savannah, GA, US, November 2016. [paper] [slides] [poster] homepage github
  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. 11th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, London, UK, April 2016. [paper] ACM DL

• [SOSP] Fast In-memory Transaction Processing using RDMA and HTM. Xingda Wei, Jiaxin Shi, Yanzhe Chen, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. 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. 10th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Bordeaux, France, April 2015. (Best Paper Award) [paper] [slides] [poster] ACM DL homepage github
  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. 6th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Salzburg, Austria, April 2011. [paper] ACM DL

• [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. 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, San Diego, CA, December 2008. [paper] ACM DL homepage code

• Introduction to Computer Systems: 2021 ~ 2012
• Operating Systems: 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013
• Distributed Systems: 2016, 2015, 2014
• Advanced Distributed Systems: 2021 ~ 2017, 2013, 2012
• Computer System Design & Implementation: 2019, 2018, 2017

• Sijie Shen (PhD, co-advised with Binyu Zang)
• Xiaoniu Song (PhD, co-advised with Haibo Chen)
• Mingcong Han (PhD)
• Hanze Zhang (PhD, co-advised with Haibo Chen)
• Rongxin Chen (PhD)

• Xingda Wei (PhD, co-advised with Binyu Zang and Haibo Chen)

• Xiating Xie, Software Engineer at Baidu (2021)
• Zhenhan Gong, Software Engineer at Huawei (2021)
• Xuehan Ke, Software Engineer at Tencent (2021)
• Wenhao Zhang, Software Engineer at Microsoft (2021)
• Yilun Wu, Software Engineer at Agricultural Bank of China (2021)
• Siyuan Wang, Software Engineer at Huawei (2020)
• Ning Wang, Software Engineer at Huawei (2020)
• Yaozeng Zeng, Software Engineer at Paypal (2020)
• Youyang Yao, Software Engineer at Alibaba (2019)
• Xiaoli Zhou, Software Engineer at Alibaba (2019)
• Xiang Xue, Software Engineer at Alibaba (2018)
• Jiaxin Shi, Software Engineer at Baidu (2017)
• Yanzhe Chen, Software Engineer at Google (2017)
• Peng Wang, Software Engineer at Baidu (2015)
• Chenning Xie, Software Engineer at Google (2015)

• 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)