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 | SOSP/OSDI Hall of Fame

• Systems for AI and AI for Systems
  • XStore: Fast RDMA-based Ordered KVStore using Learned Cache. OSDI'20 ACM TOS
  • FlexGraph: A flexible and efficient distributed framework for GNN training. EuroSys'21
  • GNNLab: A Factored System for Sample-based GNN Training over GPUs. EuroSys'22
  • REEF: Achieving μs-scale Preemption for Concurrent GPU-accelerated DNN Inferences. OSDI'22

• Unleashing Modern Datacenter Networks
  • Characterizing and Optimizing Remote Persistent Memory. USENIX ATC'21
  • KRCORE: a microsecond-scale RDMA control plane for elastic computing. USENIX ATC'22

• 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 TPDS
  • Sub-millisecond Stateful Stream Querying over Fast-evolving Linked Data. SOSP'17
  • Type-centric Optimizer for Query Processing on Graph Store. APSys'18 SoCC'21
  • Split Live Migration for Graph Traversal. USENIX ATC'19

• 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 IEEE TPDS
  • Decentralized Scalar Timestamp. NSDI'21
  • Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing. OSDI'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: 2022 | 2021 | 2020
  • EuroSys: 2023 | 2015
  • USENIX ATC: 2017
  • FAST: 2023 | 2022
  • ASPLOS: 2018
  • VEE: 2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017
  • Middleware: 2019 | 2017
  • MSST: 2020 | 2019
  • APSys: 2022 | 2018 | 2017
    …
  • Others:
    · SOSP/SRC 2019, EuroDW 2021, ISMM 2019/ERC, UCC 2017, CloudCom 2014

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

• Best Artifact Award (Honorable Mention), EuroSys 2022. link
• Distinguished Member, China Computer Federation (CCF), 2021
• Young Scholar of Chang Jiang Scholars Program by Ministry of Education, 2020
• Huawei OlympusMons Pioneer Award, 2020 Link
• First prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Award for Technical Invention, 2019
• Inducted into SOSP/OSDI Hall of Fame, 2018 Link
• First prize of Technology Invention Award by Ministry of Education , 2018
• Candlelight Award of SJTU (The 2nd Prize), 2017
• Best Paper Award, APSys 2017. Link
• New Teaching Star of SJTU, 2016.
• Best Paper Award, EuroSys 2015. Link
• 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

• [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.

• [OSDI] Achieving μs-scale Preemption for Concurrent GPU-accelerated DNN Inferences. Mingcong Han, Hanze Zhang, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. 16th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Carlsbad, CA, US, July 2022.

• [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. 17th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Rennes, France, April 2022.
  Awarded with ACM Badges: Artifact Available, Artifact Functional, Results Reproduced. link
  Best Artifact Award (Honorable Mention) link | [paper] | AE | github | ACM DL

• [OSDI] Retrofitting High Availability Mechanism to Tame Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing. Sijie Shen, Rong Chen*, Haibo Chen, and Binyu Zang. 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. 16th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, April 2021. [paper] | [slides] | long talk | short talk | ACM DL

• [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. 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
  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

• [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] | github
  Full version paper: IEEE TPDS

• [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] | 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. 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. 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. 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 link
  [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, co-advised with Xingda Wei)
• Jiali Wang (PhD)

• Xingda Wei (2021, co-advised with Binyu Zang and Haibo Chen)
  PhD Thesis: Fast Distributed Transaction Processing using RDMA and NVM
  SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention) Link
  ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention) Link
  ACM ChinaSys Doctoral Dissertation Award Link

• 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)