Associate 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 an associate professor in School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University since February 2016. 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.

Google Scholar | DBLP | Systems Research: Hall of Fame

• Wukong: Fast and Concurrent Query Processing on Big (Linked) Data
  • Fast and Concurrent RDF Queries with RDMA-based Graph Exploration [OSDI'16]
  • Sub-millisecond Stateful Stream Querying over Fast-evolving Linked Data [SOSP'17]
  • Fast and Concurrent RDF Queries using RDMA-assisted GPU Graph Exploration [USENIX ATC'18]
  • Analysis and Improvement of Optimizer for Query Processing on Graph Store [APSys'18]
  • Locality-preserving Graph Traversal with Split Live Migration [USENIX ATC'19]

• DrTM: Efficient and Scalable In-memory Transaction Processing
  • Fast In-memory Transaction Processing using RDMA and HTM [SOSP'15 ACM TOCS]
  • Fast and General Distributed Transactions using RDMA and HTM [EuroSys'16]
  • Replication-driven Live Reconfiguration for Fast Distributed Transaction [USENIX ATC'17]
  • Deconstructing RDMA-enabled Transaction Processing: Hybrid is Better! [OSDI'18]

• 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]

• Scalable and Performance of System Software for Multicore
  • 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]

• Security, Reliability and Availability of System Software
  • Mercury: Combining Performance with Dependability Using Self-Virtualization. [ICPP'07 JCST]
  • POLUS and LUCOS: Dynamic Updating for System Software. [ICSE'07 VEE'06]

• Technical Program Committee (TPC) Members
  • OSDI: 2020
  • SOSP: 2019/SRC
  • ASPLOS: 2018
  • USENIX ATC: 2017
  • EuroSys: 2015
  • VEE: 2019 | 2018 | 2017
  • Middleware: 2019 | 2017
  • MSST: 2020 | 2019
  • APSys: 2018 | 2017
  • Others: ISMM 2019 (ERC), UCC 2017, CloudCom 2014, PMAM 2016/2015

• Organizers
  • ChinaSys: 2018 (PC Chair, w/ Cheng Li)

• Technological Invention Award of Ministry of Education (The 1st Prize, The 3rd Inventor), 2018
• The Candlelight Award of SJTU (The 2nd Prize), 2017
• Best Paper Award, APSys 2017
• The New Teaching Star of SJTU, 2016
• Senior Member, China Computer Federation (CCF)
• Best Paper Award, EuroSys 2015.
• Best Paper Award, ICPP 2007.

• Introduction to Computer Systems: 2020 ~ 2012
• Distributed Systems: 2016 ~ 2014
• Operating Systems: 2018 ~ 2017, 2015, 2013
• Advanced Distributed Systems: 2020 ~ 2017, 2013 ~ 2012
• Computer System Design & Implementation: 2019 ~ 2017

• 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

• [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. Proceedings of 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, US, April 2021.

• [USENIX ATC] Pragh: Locality-preserving Graph Traversal with Split Live Migration. Xiating Xie, Xingda Wei, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. Proceedings of 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Renton, WA, US, July 2019. [paper]

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

• [USENIX ATC] Fast and Concurrent RDF Queries using RDMA-assisted GPU Graph Exploration. Siyuan Wang, Chang Lou, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. Proceedings of 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. Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Shanghai, China, October 2017. [updated paper] [poster] [slides] ACM DL

• [USENIX ATC] Replication-driven Live Reconfiguration for Fast Distributed Transaction Processing. Xingda Wei, Sijie Shen, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. Proceedings of 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. Proceedings of 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Savannah, GA, US, November 2016. [paper] [slides] [poster] homepage github

• [EuroSys] Fast and General Distributed Transactions Using RDMA and HTM. Yanzhe Chen, Xingda Wei, Jiaxin Shi, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. Proceedings of 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. Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Monterey, CA, USA, October 2015. [paper] [slides] [poster] ACM DL
  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. Proceedings of 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. Proceedings of 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. Proceedings of 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, San Diego, CA, December 2008. [paper] ACM DL homepage code