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Our research contributions have been published at top-tier systems, architecture, and security conferences, such as ISCA, OSDI, ASPLOS, MICRO, PLDI, FAST, EuroSys, CCS, USENIX ATC, and VLDB.

2026
Exploring the Efficiency of 3D-Stacked AI Chip Architecture for LLM Inference with Tsim

Yiqi Liu, Noelle Crawford, Michael Wang, Jilong Xue, Jian Huang. MICRO 2026.
Auto-Scaling Heterogeneous Neural Processing Units for Energy and Cost-Efficient LLM Serving

Yuqi Xue, Jichuan Chang, Jian Huang. MICRO 2026.
Enabling Spatially Fine-Grained DVFS in Neural Processing Units for Energy-Efficient LLM Serving

Yuqi Xue, Jerry Wu, Corey Yu, Jian Huang. MICRO 2026.
RAGPerf: An End-to-End Benchmarking Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Shaobo Li, Yirui Eric Zhou, Yuan Xu, Kevin Chen, Daniel Waddington, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Hubertus Franke, Jian Huang. VLDB 2026.
Vegas: Self-Speculative Decoding with Verification-Guided Sparse Attention

Yikang Yue, Yuqi Xue, Jian Huang. ICML 2026.
2025
Toward Engineering AGI: Benchmarking the Engineering Design Capabilities of LLMs

Xingang Guo, Bin Hu, Daixuan Li, Yiqi Liu, Yuqi Xue, Jian Huang, et al. NeurIPS 2025.
Cost-Efficient LLM Training with Lifetime-Aware Tensor Offloading via GPUDirect Storage

Ziqi Yuan, Haoyang Zhang, Yirui Eric Zhou, Apoorve Mohan, I-Hsin Chung, Seetharami Seelam, Jian Huang. NeurIPS 2025.
Managing Scalable Direct Storage Accesses for GPUs with GoFS

Shaobo Li, Yirui Eric Zhou, Yuqi Xue, Yuan Xu, Jian Huang. SOSP 2025.
ReGate: Enabling Power Gating in Neural Processing Units

Yuqi Xue, Jian Huang. MICRO 2025.
ELK: Exploring the Efficiency of Inter-core Connected AI Chips with Deep Learning Compiler Techniques

Yiqi Liu, Yuqi Xue, Noelle Crawford, Jilong Xue, Jian Huang. MICRO 2025.
SkyByte: Architecting an Efficient Memory-Semantic CXL-based SSD with OS and Hardware Co-design

Haoyang Zhang*, Yuqi Xue*, Yirui Eric Zhou, Shaobo Li, Jian Huang. HPCA 2025.

*Co-primary authors.
FleetIO: Managing Multi-Tenant Cloud Storage with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Jinghan Sun, Benjamin Reidys, Daixuan Li, Jichuan Chang, Marc Snir, Jian Huang. ASPLOS 2025.
ByteFS: System Support for (CXL-based) Memory-Semantic Solid-State Drives

Shaobo Li*, Yirui Eric Zhou*, Hao Ren, Jian Huang. ASPLOS 2025.

*Co-primary authors.
Coach: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for All-Resource Oversubscription in Cloud Platforms

Benjamin Reidys, Pantea Zardoshti, Íñigo Goiri, Celine Irvene, Daniel S. Berger, Haoran Ma, Kapil Arya, Eli Cortez, Taylor Stark, Eugene Bak, Mehmet Iyigun, Stanko Novaković, Lisa Hsu, Karel Trueba, Abhisek Pan, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan, Jian Huang, Ricardo Bianchini. ASPLOS 2025.
2024
Exploring the Efficiency of Renewable Energy-based Modular Data Centers at Scale

Jinghan Sun, Zibo Gong, Anup Agarwal, Shadi Noghabi, Ranveer Chandra, Marc Snir, Jian Huang. SoCC 2024.
Scaling Deep Learning Computation over the Inter-Core Connected Intelligence Processor with T10

Yiqi Liu, Yuqi Xue, Yu Cheng, Lingxiao Ma, Ziming Miao, Jilong Xue, Jian Huang. SOSP 2024.
Hardware-Assisted Virtualization of Neural Processing Units for Cloud Platforms

Yuqi Xue, Yiqi Liu, Lifeng Nai, Jian Huang. MICRO 2024.
HADES: Hardware-Assisted Distributed Transactions in the Age of Fast Networks and SmartNICs

Apostolos Kokolis, Antonis Psistakis, Benjamin Reidys, Jian Huang, Josep Torrellas. ISCA 2024.
2023
Learning to Drive Software-Defined Solid-State Drives

Daixuan Li, Jinghan Sun, Jian Huang. MICRO 2023.
G10: Enabling An Efficient Unified GPU Memory and Storage Architecture with Smart Tensor Migrations

Haoyang Zhang, Yirui Eric Zhou, Yuqi Xue, Yiqi Liu, Jian Huang. MICRO 2023.
RackBlox: A Software-Defined Rack-Scale Storage System with Network-Storage Co-Design

Benjamin Reidys, Yuqi Xue, Daixuan Li, Bharat Sukhwani, Wen-mei Hwu, Deming Chen, Sameh Asaad, Jian Huang. SOSP 2023.
System Virtualization for Neural Processing Units

Yuqi Xue, Yiqi Liu, Jian Huang. HotOS 2023.
The Security War in File Systems: An Empirical Study from A Vulnerability-Centric Perspective

Jinghan Sun, Shaobo Li, Jun Xu, Jian Huang. TOS 2023.
V10: Hardware-Assisted NPU Multi-tenancy for Improved Resource Utilization and Fairness

Yuqi Xue, Yiqi Liu, Lifeng Nai, Jian Huang. ISCA 2023.
LeaFTL: A Learning-Based Flash Translation Layer for Solid-State Drives

Jinghan Sun, Shaobo Li, Yunxin Sun, Chao Sun, Dejan Vucinic, Jian Huang. ASPLOS 2023.
2022
Learning to Drive Software-Defined Storage

Jian Huang, Daixuan Li, Jinghan Sun. MLSys@NIPS'22.
BlockFlex: Enabling Storage Harvesting with Software-Defined Flash in Modern Cloud Platforms

Benjamin Reidys*, Jinghan Sun*, Anirudh Badam, Shadi Noghabi, Jian Huang. OSDI 2022.

*Co-primary authors.
RSSD: Defend Against Ransomware with Hardware-Isolated Network-Storage Codesign and Post-Attack Analysis

Benjamin Reidys, Peng Liu, Jian Huang. ASPLOS 2022.
Understanding and Detecting Deep Memory Persistency Bugs in NVM Programs with DeepMC

Benjamin Reidys, Jian Huang. PPoPP 2022.
RSSD: Defend Against Ransomware with Hardware-Isolated Network-Storage Codesign and Post-Attack Analysis

Benjamin Reidys, Peng Liu, Jian Huang. NVMW 2022.
UniHeap: Managing Persistent Objects Across Managed Runtimes for Non-Volatile Memory

Daixuan Li, Benjamin Reidys, Jinghan Sun, Thomas Shull, Josep Torrellas, Jian Huang. NVMW 2022.
IceClave: A Trusted Execution Environment for In-Storage Computing

Luyi Kang*, Yuqi Xue*, Weiwei Jia*, Xiaohao Wang, Jongryool Kim, Changhwan Youn, Myeong Joon Kang, Jin Lim, Bruce Jacob, Jian Huang. NVMW 2022.

*Co-primary authors.
2021
IceClave: A Trusted Execution Environment for In-Storage Computing

Luyi Kang*, Yuqi Xue*, Weiwei Jia*, Xiaohao Wang, Jongryool Kim, Changhwan Youn, Myeong Joon Kang, Jin Lim, Bruce Jacob, Jian Huang. MICRO 2021.

*Co-primary authors.
Distributed Data Persistency

Apostolos Kokolis, Antonis Psistakis, Benjamin Reidys, Jian Huang, Josep Torrellas. MICRO 2021.
Pinpointing Crash-Consistency Bugs in the HPC I/O Stack: A Cross-Layer Approach

Jinghan Sun, Jian Huang, Marc Snir. SC 2021.
UniHeap: Managing Persistent Objects Across Managed Runtimes for Non-Volatile Memory

Daixuan Li, Benjamin Reidys, Jinghan Sun, Thomas Shull, Josep Torrellas, Jian Huang. SYSTOR 2021.
Efficient Hardware-Assisted Out-of-Place Update for Non-Volatile Memory

Miao Cai, Chance C. Coats, Jeonghyun Woo, Jian Huang. NVMW 2021.
2020
Hoop: Efficient Hardware-Assisted Out-of-Place Update for Non-Volatile Memory

Miao Cai, Chance C. Coats, Jian Huang. ISCA 2020.
Understanding and Finding Crash-Consistency Bugs in Parallel File Systems

Jinghan Sun, Chen Wang, Jian Huang, Marc Snir. HotStorage 2020.
P-INSPECT: Architectural Support for Programmable Non-Volatile Memory Frameworks

Apostolos Kokolis, Thomas Shull, Jian Huang, Josep Torrellas. MICRO 2020.
FReaC Cache: Folded-logic Reconfigurable Computing in the Last Level Cache

Ashutosh Dhar, Xiaohao Wang, Hubertus Franke, Jinjun Xiong, Jian Huang, Wen-mei Hwu, Nam Sung Kim, Deming Chen. MICRO 2020.
WATCHER: In-Situ Failure Diagnosis

Hongyu Liu, Sam Silvestro, Xiangyu Zhang, Jian Huang, Tongping Liu. OOPSLA 2020.
Project Almanac: A Time-Traveling Solid-State Drive

Xiaohao Wang, Chance C. Coats, Jian Huang. NVMW 2020.
2019
DeepStore: In-Storage Acceleration for Intelligent Queries

Vikram Sharma Mailthody, Zaid Qureshi, Weixin Liang, Ziyan Feng, Simon Garcia de Gonzalo, Youjie Li, Hubertus Franke, Jinjun Xiong, Jian Huang, Wen-mei Hwu. MICRO 2019.
Understanding Security Vulnerabilities in File Systems

Miao Cai, Hao Huang, Jian Huang. APSys 2019.
Energy-Efficient Video Processing for Virtual Reality

Yue Leng*, Chi-chun Chen*, Qiuyue Sun, Jian Huang, Yuhao Zhu. ISCA 2019.
*Co-primary authors.
Accelerating Distributed Reinforcement Learning with In-Switch Computing

Youjie Li, Iou-Jen Liu, Deming Chen, Alexander Schwing, Jian Huang. ISCA 2019.
Halo: Accelerating Flow Classification for Scalable Packet Processing in NFV

Yifan Yuan, Yipeng Wang, Ren Wang, Jian Huang. ISCA 2019.
AutoPersist: An Easy-To-Use Java NVM Framework Based on Reachability

Thomas Shull, Jian Huang, Josep Torrellas. PLDI 2019.
Project Almanac: A Time-Traveling Solid-State Drive

Xiaohao Wang, You Zhou, Chance C. Coats, Jian Huang. EuroSys 2019.
Press: ACM TechNews, ACM CACM, TechXplore, ScienceDaily, HIT Infrastructure, LiveMint, Cybersecurity Insiders, SteelBuilders, HelpNetSecurity, EurekAlert, Cyware, Express Computer, World News Buz, TravelWireNews, HitbSecNews, World Industrial Reporter, PharmaJobs, India Finance News, LongRoom News, Edgy.App, myce.com, Rbfirehose.com, Science News, Atmarkit (Japanese).
FlatFlash: Exploiting the Byte-Accessibility of SSDs within A Unified Memory-Storage Hierarchy

Ahmed Abulila, Vikram Sharma Mailthody, Zaid Qureshi, Jian Huang, Nam Sung Kim, Jinjun Xiong, Wen-mei Hwu. ASPLOS 2019.
SDC: A Software Defined Cache for Efficient Data Indexing

Fan Ni, Song Jiang, Hong Jiang, Jian Huang, Xingbo Wu. ICS 2019.
Using Speculation to Reduce the Checking Overhead of Persistent Objects in NVM Frameworks

Thomas Shull, Jian Huang, Josep Torrellas. VEE 2019.
Designing a User-Friendly Java NVM Framework

Thomas Shull, Jian Huang, Josep Torrellas. NVMW 2019.
2018
Defining a High-Level Programming Model for Emerging NVRAM Technologies

Thomas Shull, Jian Huang, Josep Torrellas. ManLang 2018.
Semantic-Aware Virtual Reality Video Streaming

Yue Leng*, Chi-Chun Chen*, Chris Sun, Jian Huang, Yuhao Zhu. APSys 2018.

*Co-primary authors.
Building Memory and Storage Systems for Wearables and IoT

Jian Huang. Grand Challenges in Computer Systems (An NSF-Sponsored Community Visioning Workshop), 2018.
Achieving Both Performance Isolation and Uniform Lifetime for Virtualized SSDs with FlashBlox

Jian Huang, Anirudh Badam, Laura Caulfield, Suman Nath, Sudipta Sengupta, Bikash Sharma, Moinuddin K. Qureshi. NVMW 2018.
Before 2018
FlashGuard: Leveraging Intrinsic Flash Properties to Defend Against Encryption Ransomware

Jian Huang, Jun Xu, Xinyu Xing, Peng Liu, Moinuddin K. Qureshi. CCS 2017.
Press: Zhihu.com (in Chinese), InfoSec (in Chinese), SecWiki, mp.weixin, hk.saowen.com, meta.tn, secspace.com, imuo.com.
Exploiting Intrinsic Flash Properties to Enhance Modern Storage Systems

Jian Huang. Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017.
CoC Dissertation Award, Georgia Tech.
FlashBlox: Achieving Both Performance Isolation and Uniform Lifetime for Virtualized SSDs

Jian Huang, Anirudh Badam, Laura Caulfield, Suman Nath, Sudipta Sengupta, Bikash Sharma, Moinuddin K. Qureshi. FAST 2017.
Pallas: Semantic-Aware Checking for Finding Deep Bugs in Fast Path

Jian Huang, Michael R. Allen-Bond, Xuechen Zhang. ASPLOS 2017.
Offloading to Improve the Battery Life of Mobile Devices

Ranveer Chandra, Steve Hodges, Anirudh Badam, Jian Huang.
Spotlight in IEEE Pervasive Computing (Special Issue on Energy Harvesting and Power Management), Volume 15, No. 4, 2016.
An Evolutionary Study of Linux Memory Management for Fun and Profit

Jian Huang, Moinuddin K. Qureshi, Karsten Schwan. ATC 2016.
WearDrive: Fast and Energy-Efficient Storage for Wearables

Jian Huang, Anirudh Badam, Ranveer Chandra, Ed Nightingale. ATC 2015.
Best Paper Award.

Press: The Register, CACM, Neowin, CBR, TECH TIMES, PCWorld, WinBeta, ZDNet, ComputerWorld, CloudTweaks, Tech Cocktail, Jaimy Szymanski, The Australian, Stuffi (in French), ObjetConnecte (in French), Aruco (in French), Lintas News (in Indonesian), Solopos (in Indonesian), CNBeta (in Chinese), Tencent (in Chinese), NetEase (in Chinese), XinhuaNet (in Chinese), ITHome (in Chinese), Wearable.Ofweek (in Chinese), Diario Wearable (in Spanish), ComputerHoy (in Spanish), Noticias-Tecnologia (in Spanish), Tech.WP (in Polish), etc.
Unified Address Translation for Memory-Mapped SSDs with FlashMap

Jian Huang, Anirudh Badam, Moinuddin K. Qureshi, Karsten Schwan. ISCA 2015.
IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention.
NVRAM-aware Logging in Transaction Systems

Jian Huang, Karsten Schwan, Moinuddin K. Qureshi. VLDB 2015.
Understanding Issue Correlations: A Case Study of the Hadoop System

Jian Huang, Xuechen Zhang, Karsten Schwa. SoCC 2015.
Scibox: Online Sharing of Scientific Data via the Cloud

Jian Huang, Xuechen Zhang, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf, Stephane Ethier, Scott Klasky. IPDPS 2014.
High Performance Design of HBase with RDMA over InfiniBand

Jian Huang, Xiangyong Ouyang, Md Wasi-ur-Rahman, Hao Wang, Miao Luo, Hari Subramoni, Chet Murthy, Dhabaleswar K. Panda. IPDPS 2012.
Released software: RDMA-Hadoop (its relevant packages have been used by 275+ organizations with 25,000+ downloads by Feb. 2018).

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