We publish our research at major systems venues such as ASPLOS, FAST, OSDI, and SOSP. PDFs, slides, posters, code, and BibTeX entries are linked beside each paper below.

2026
1
Tierce: Observability-Driven Tiered Memory Management for Colocated Workloads
Hanchen Xu*, Berkay Inceisci*, Hao Li, Zhenyu Zhang, Huaicheng Li
* Equal contribution
SOSP '26
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2026
2
PACT: A Criticality-First Design for Tiered Memory
Hamid Hadian, Jinshu Liu*, Hanchen Xu*, Hansen Idden, Huaicheng Li
* Equal contribution
ASPLOS '26
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Best Paper Honorable Mention
2026
3
Performance Predictability in Heterogeneous Memory
Jinshu Liu, Hanchen Xu, Daniel S. Berger, Marcos K. Aguilera, Huaicheng Li
ASPLOS '26
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2026
4
Cylon: Fast and Accurate Full-System Emulation of CXL-SSDs
Dongha Yoon*, Hansen Idden*, Jinshu Liu, Berkay Inceisci, Sam H. Noh, Huaicheng Li
* Co-lead authors
FAST '26
Artifacts Available Artifacts Functional Results Reproduced
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2026
5
Characterizing and Emulating FDP SSDs with WARP
Inho Song, Shoaib Asif Qazi, Javier González, Matias Bjørling, Sam H. Noh, Huaicheng Li
FAST '26
Artifacts Available Artifacts Functional
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2025
6
Tiered Memory Management Beyond Hotness
Jinshu Liu, Hamid Hadian, Hanchen Xu, Huaicheng Li
OSDI '25
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2025
7
Systematic CXL Memory Characterization and Performance Analysis at Scale
Jinshu Liu, Hamid Hadian, Yuyue Wang, Daniel S. Berger, Marie Nguyen, Xun Jian, Sam H. Noh, Huaicheng Li
ASPLOS '25
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2025
8
SGDRC: Software-Defined Dynamic Resource Control for Concurrent DNN Inference on NVIDIA GPUs
Yongkang Zhang, Haoxuan Yu, Chenxia Han, Cheng Wang, Baotong Lu, Yunzhe Li, Zhifeng Jiang, Yang Li, Xiaowen Chu, Huaicheng Li
PPoPP '25
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2024
9
Dissecting CXL Memory Performance at Scale: Analysis, Modeling, and Optimization
Jinshu Liu, Hamid Hadian, Hanchen Xu, Daniel S. Berger, Huaicheng Li
arXiv:2409.14317
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2024
10
Tuning Fast Memory Size based on Modeling of Page Migration for Tiered Memory
Shangye Chen, Jin Huang, Shuangyan Yang, Jie Liu, Huaicheng Li, Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Junhee Ryu, Jinho Baek, Kwangsik Shin, Dong Li
arXiv:2410.00328
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2024
11
Missile: Fine-Grained, Hardware-Level GPU Resource Isolation for Multi-Tenant DNN Inference
Yongkang Zhang, Haoxuan Yu, Chenxia Han, Cheng Wang, Baotong Lu, Yunzhe Li, Zhifeng Jiang, Yang Li, Xiaowen Chu, Huaicheng Li
arXiv:2407.13996
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2024
12
ZoneTrace: A Zone Monitoring Tool for F2FS on ZNS SSDs
Ping-Xiang Chen, Dongjoo Seo, Changhoon Sung, Jongheum Park, Minchul Lee, Huaicheng Li, Matias Bjørling, Nikil Dutt
ACM TODAES
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2023
13
Is Garbage Collection Overhead Gone? Case study of F2FS on ZNS SSDs
Dongjoo Seo, Ping-Xiang Chen, Huaicheng Li, Matias Bjørling, Nikil Dutt
HotStorage '23
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2023
14
Pond: The Case of CXL Memory Pooling for Cloud Datacenters
Huaicheng Li, Daniel S. Berger, Lisa Hsu, Daniel Ernst, Pantea Zardoshti, Stanko Novakovic, Monish Shah, Samir Rajadnya, Scott Lee, Ishwar Agarwal, Mark D. Hill, Marcus Fontoura, Ricardo Bianchini
NVMW '23
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2023
15
RAIZN: Redundant Array of Independent Zoned Namespaces
Thomas Kim, Jekyeom Jeon, Nikhil Arora, Huaicheng Li, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen, Gregory R. Ganger, George Amvrosiadis, Matias Bjørling
ASPLOS '23
Artifacts Available Artifacts Functional
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2023
16
Pond: CXL-Based Memory Pooling Systems for Cloud Platforms
Huaicheng Li, Daniel S. Berger, Lisa Hsu, Daniel Ernst, Pantea Zardoshti, Stanko Novakovic, Monish Shah, Samir Rajadnya, Scott Lee, Ishwar Agarwal, Mark D. Hill, Marcus Fontoura, Ricardo Bianchini
ASPLOS '23
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Distinguished Paper Award
IEEE Micro Top Picks (Honorable Mention)
2023
17
Extending and Programming the NVMe I/O Determinism Interface for Flash Arrays
Huaicheng Li, Martin L. Putra, Ronald Shi, Fadhil I. Kurnia, Xing Lin, Jaeyoung Do, Achmad Imam Kistijantoro, Gregory R. Ganger, Haryadi S. Gunawi
ACM TOS
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2023
18
Design Tradeoffs in CXL-Based Memory Pools for Cloud Platforms
Daniel S. Berger, Dan Ernst, Huaicheng Li, Pantea Zardoshti, Monish Shah, Samir Rajadnya, Scott Lee, Lisa Hsu, Ishwar Agarwal, Mark D. Hill, Ricardo Bianchini
IEEE Micro
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2022
19
First-generation memory disaggregation for cloud platforms
Huaicheng Li, Daniel S. Berger, Stanko Novakovic, Lisa Hsu, Daniel Ernst, Pantea Zardoshti, Monish Shah, Samir Rajadnya, Scott Lee, Ishwar Agarwal, Mark D. Hill, Marcus Fontoura, Ricardo Bianchini
arXiv:2203.00241
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2022
20
Fantastic SSD Internals and How to Learn and Use Them
Nanqinqin Li, Mingzhe Hao, Huaicheng Li, Xing Lin, Tim Emami, Haryadi S. Gunawi
SYSTOR '22
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Best Paper Award
2021 (Pre-VT)
21
IODA: A Host/Device Co-design for Strong Predictability Contract on Modern Flash Storage
Huaicheng Li, Martin L. Putra, Ronald Shi, Xing Lin, Gregory R. Ganger, Haryadi S. Gunawi
SOSP '21
Artifacts Available Artifacts Functional Results Reproduced
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2020
22
Evolving Storage Stack for Predictability and Efficiency
Huaicheng Li
PhD Thesis, UChicago
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2020
23
LeapIO: Efficient and Portable Virtual NVMe Storage on ARM SoCs
Huaicheng Li, Mingzhe Hao, Stanko Novakovic, Vaibhav Gogte, Sriram Govindan, Dan R. K. Ports, Irene Zhang, Ricardo Bianchini, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Anirudh Badam
ASPLOS '20
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2018
24
Fail-Slow at Scale: Evidence of Hardware Performance Faults in Large Production Systems
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Riza O. Suminto, Russell Sears, Casey Golliher, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Xing Lin, Tim Emami, Weiguang Sheng, Nematollah Bidokhti, Caitie McCaffrey, Deepthi Srinivasan, Biswaranjan Panda, Andrew Baptist, Gary Grider, Parks M. Fields, Kevin Harms, Robert B. Ross, Andree Jacobson, Robert Ricci, Kirk Webb, Peter Alvaro, H. Birali Runesha, Mingzhe Hao, Huaicheng Li
ACM TOS (Extended version of FAST '18)
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Fast-Tracked
2018
25
The CASE of FEMU: Cheap, Accurate, Scalable and Extensible Flash Emulator
Huaicheng Li, Mingzhe Hao, Michael Hao Tong, Swaminatahan Sundararaman, Matias Bjørling, Haryadi S. Gunawi
FAST '18
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2018
26
Fail-Slow at Scale: Evidence of Hardware Performance Faults in Large Production Systems
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Riza O. Suminto, Russell Sears, Casey Golliher, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Xing Lin, Tim Emami, Weiguang Sheng, Nematollah Bidokhti, Caitie McCaffrey, Deepthi Srinivasan, Biswaranjan Panda, Andrew Baptist, Gary Grider, Parks M. Fields, Kevin Harms, Robert B. Ross, Andree Jacobson, Robert Ricci, Kirk Webb, Peter Alvaro, H. Birali Runesha, Mingzhe Hao, Huaicheng Li
FAST '18
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Best Paper Nominee
2017
27
MittOS: Supporting Millisecond Tail Tolerance with Fast Rejecting SLO-aware OS interface
Mingzhe Hao, Huaicheng Li, Michael Hao Tong, Chrisma Pakha, Riza O. Suminto, Cesar A. Stuardo, Andrew A. Chien, Haryadi S. Gunawi
SOSP '17
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2017
28
Tiny-Tail Flash: Near-Perfect Elimination of Garbage Collection Tail Latencies in NAND SSDs
Shiqin Yan, Huaicheng Li, Mingzhe Hao, Michael Hao Tong, Swaminatahan Sundararaman, Andrew A. Chien, Haryadi S. Gunawi
ACM TOS (Extended version of FAST '17)
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Fast-Tracked
2017
29
Tiny-Tail Flash: Near-Perfect Elimination of Garbage Collection Tail Latencies in NAND SSDs
Shiqin Yan, Huaicheng Li, Mingzhe Hao, Michael Hao Tong, Swaminatahan Sundararaman, Andrew A. Chien, Haryadi S. Gunawi
FAST '17
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Best Paper Nominee