Yiming Zhang Professor, Director of NICE Lab, SJTU & XMU, China E-mail: zhangyiming at cs dot sjtu dot edu dot cn; zhangyiming at xmu dot edu dot cn

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Dr. Yiming Zhang is a professor at SJTU and XMU. He is also the director of the NICE Lab (Laboratory of Networked Intelligent Computing at Exascale). His research is focused on operating, networking, storage, and AI systems. As the first/corresponding author, he has published many highly-influential papers in top conferences like NSDI, FAST and EuroSys, and famous Journals like TOCS, TOS and TON. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, and a member of 2022 EuroSys Roger Needham Award Committee. He has received the Best Paper Award of USENIX FAST'23, the National Science and Technology Award (2nd prize), the Natural Science Award of Hunan province (1st prize), and the (top 10) Outstanding Dissertation Award. His research (TianheGraph) is ranked No. 1 in the latest Graph500 on Tianhe supercomputer. As the team leader, he won the CCF Award of Science and Technology (1st prize) in 2021.

Here is the CV.

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Selected Publications:

Recent Conference Papers

• SkySync: Accelerating File Synchronization with Collaborative Delta Generation.
  Zhihao Zhang, Huiba Li, Lu Tang, Jiwu Shu, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding).
  USENIX FAST 2026 (to appear)


• Phoenix: A Refactored I/O Stack for GPU Direct Storage without Phony Buffers.
  Jianqin Yan, Shi Qiu, Yina Lv, Hao Chen, Zhirong Shen, Xin Yao, Renhai Chen, Jiwu Shu, Gong Zhang, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding).
  ACM SC 2025


• MixNet: A Runtime Reconfigurable Optical-Electrical Fabric for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training.
  Xudong Liao, Yijun Sun, Han Tian, Xinchen Wan, Yijun Jin, Zilong Wang, Zhenghang Ren, Xinyang Huang, Wenxue Li, Kin Fai Tse, Zhizhen Zhong, Guyue Liu, Ying Zhang, Xiaofeng Ye, Yiming Zhang, Kai Chen.
  ACM SIGCOMM 2025


• AC-Cache: A Memory-Efficient Caching System for Small Objects via Exploiting Access Correlations.
  Fulin Nan, Ronglong Wu, Zhirong Shen, Jiahui Yang, Li Cheng, Zheng Chen, Yiming Zhang, Jiwu Shu.
  ACM PPoPP 2025


• GeminiFS: A Companion File System for GPUs.
  Shi Qiu, Weinan Liu, Yifan Hu, Jianqin Yan, Zhirong Shen, Xin Yao, Renhai Chen, Gong Zhang, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding).
  USENIX FAST 2025


• AtomicDisk: A Secure Virtual Disk for TEEs against Eviction Attacks.
  Hongliang Tian, Xinyi Yu, Weijie Liu, Shaowei Song, Zhihao Zhang, Shiyu Wang, Qingsong Chen, Erci Xu, Shoumeng Yan, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding).
  USENIX FAST 2025


• Vegeta: Parallel Smart Contract Execution for Leaderless Blockchain.
  Tianjing Xu*, Yongqi Zhong*, Yiming Zhang*, Ruofan Xiong, Jingjing Zhang, Guangtao Xue, Shengyun Liu.
  USENIX NSDI 2025 *Co-primary authors


• Cheetah: Metadata Aggregation for Fast Object Storage without Distributed Ordering.
  Yiming Zhang, Li Wang, Shengyun Liu, Shun Gai, Haonan Wang, Kai Chen, Dongsheng Li, Jiwu Shu.
  ACM EuroSys 2025


• EXO: Accelerating Storage Paravirtualization with eBPF.
  Shi Qiu, Li Wang, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding).
  ACM SC 2024


• Removing Obstacles before Breaking Through the Memory Wall: A Close Look at HBM Errors in the Field.
  Ronglong Wu, Shuyue Zhou, Jiahao Lu, Zhirong Shen, Zikang Xu, Jiwu Shu, Kunlin Yang, Feilong Lin, Yiming Zhang.
  USENIX ATC 2024


• Bandle: Asynchronous State Machine Replication Made Efficient.
  Bo Wang, Shengyun Liu, He Dong, Xiangzhe Wang, Wenbo Xu, Jingjing Zhang, Ping Zhong, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding).
  ACM EuroSys 2024


• Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems.
  Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Fengyi Zhu, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu.
  USENIX FAST 2023 (Best Paper Award!)


• vGRAPH: Memory-Efficient Multicore Graph Processing for Traversal-Centric Algorithms.
  Menghan Jia*, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Xinbiao Gan, Dongsheng Li, Ruibo Wang, Kai Lu.
  ACM SC 2022 *Co-primary authors


• NVMe SSD Failures in the Field: the Fail-Stop and the Fail-Slow.
  Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu.
  USENIX ATC 2022


• InfiniFS: An Efficient Metadata Service for Large-Scale Distributed Filesystems.
  Wenhao Lv, Youyou Lu, Yiming Zhang, Peile Duan, Jiwu Shu.
  USENIX FAST 2022


• XTree: Traversal-Based Partitioning for Extreme-Scale Graph Processing on Supercomputers.
  Xinbiao Gan, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Ruigeng Zeng, Jie Liu, Ruibo Wang, Tiejun Li, Li Chen, Kai Lu.
  IEEE ICDE 2022


• MapperX: Adaptive Metadata Maintenance for Fast Crash Recovery of DM-Cache Based Hybrid Storage Devices.
  Lujia Yin, Li Wang, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Yuxing Peng.
  USENIX ATC 2021


• ParaX: Boosting Deep Learning for Big Data Analytics on Many-Core CPUs.
  Lujia Yin*, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Zhaoning Zhang, Yuxing Peng, Peng Zhao.
  VLDB 2021 *Co-primary authors


• MapX: Controlled Data Migration in the Expansion of Decentralized Object-Based Storage Systems.
  Li Wang, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Jiawei Xu, Guangtao Xue.
  USENIX FAST 2020 *Co-primary authors


• UrsaL: Ultra-Efficient, Reliable, Scalable, and Available Block Storage at Low Cost.
  Huiba Li*, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Haonan Wang, Ping Zhong.
  IEEE INFOCOM 2020 *Co-primary authors


• TopoX: Topology Refactorization for Efficient Graph Partitioning and Processing.
  Dongsheng Li*, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Jinyan Wang, Kian-Lee Tan.
  VLDB 2019 *Co-primary authors


• URSA: Hybrid Block Storage for Cloud-Scale Virtual Disks.
  Huiba Li*, Yiming Zhang* (Corresponding), Dongsheng Li, Zhiming Zhang, Shengyun Liu, Peng (Ryan) Huang, Zheng Qin, Kai Chen, Yongqiang Xiong.
  ACM EuroSys 2019 *Co-primary authors


• KylinX: A Dynamic Library Operating System for Simplified and Efficient Cloud Virtualization.
  Yiming Zhang, Jon Crowcroft, Dongsheng Li, Chengfei Zhang, Huiba Li, Yaozheng Wang, Kai Yu, Yongqiang Xiong, Guihai Chen.
  USENIX ATC 2018


• PCatch: Automatically Detecting Performance Cascading Bugs in Cloud Systems.
  Jiaxin Li, Yuxi Chen, Haopeng Liu, Shan Lu, Yiming Zhang, Haryadi Gunawi, Xiaohui Gu, Xicheng Lu, Dongsheng Li.
  ACM EuroSys 2018


• PariX: Speculative Partial Writes in Erasure-Coded Systems.
  Huiba Li, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Zhiming Zhang, Shengyun Liu, Dongsheng Li, Xiaohui Liu, Yuxing Peng.
  USENIX ATC 2017


• CubeX: Leveraging Glocality of Cube-Based Networks for RAM-Based Key-Value Store.
  Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Tian Tian, Ping Zhong.
  IEEE INFOCOM 2017


• CubicRing: Enabling One-Hop Failure Detection and Recovery for Distributed In-Memory Storage Systems.
  Yiming Zhang, Chuanxiong Guo, Dongsheng Li, Rui Chu, Haitao Wu, Yongqiang Xiong.
  USENIX NSDI 2015

Journal Papers

• Li Wang, Shi Qiu, Jianqin Yan, Zhirong Shen, Qingbo Wu, Xin Yao, Meiling Wang, Renhai Chen, and Yiming Zhang (Corresponding). A Tale of Two Paths: Optimizing Paravirtualized Storage I/O with eBPF. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), to appear.
• Yiming Zhang, Kekun Hu, Gang Dong, Hailiang Chen, and Rengang Li. FrigateBird: Decoupling Metadata/Data Services for Continuously Fast Object Storage. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), to appear.
• Yiming Zhang, Zhihao Zhang, Yan Chen, Huiba Li, Haonan Wang, Ping Zhong, Shengyun Liu, and Dongsheng Li. Efficient Block Storage in the Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2024, 43(12): 4800-4812, Doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2024.3400690.
• Ziyang Li, Dongsheng Li, Yingwen Chen, Kai Chen, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding). Decentralized Scheduling for Data-Parallel Tasks in the Cloud. ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC), 2024, 11(2): 1-23, Doi: 10.1145/3651858.
• Yan Chen, Qiwen Ke, Huiba Li, Yongwei Wu, Yiming Zhang. xMeta: SSD-HDD-hybrid Optimization for Metadata Maintenance of Cloud-scale Object Storage. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2024, 21(2): 1-20, Doi: 10.1145/3652606.
• Huiba Li, Zhihao Zhang, Yifan Yuan, Rui Du, Kai Ma, Lanzhen Liu, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Windorsor Hsu. Block-Level Image Service for the Cloud. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 2024, 20(1): 1-28.
• Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Huiba Li, Shengyun Liu, Peng Huang. Hybrid Block Storage for Efficient Cloud Volume Service. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 2023, 19(4): 1-25.
• Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Fengyi Zhu, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu. From Missteps to Milestones: A Journey to Practical Fail-Slow Detection. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 2023, 19(4): 1-28.
• Jiaxin Li, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Haryadi S. Gunawi, Xiaohui Gu, Feng Huang, Dongsheng Li. Performance Bug Analysis and Detection for Distributed Storage and Computing Systems. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 2023, 19(3): 1-33. Doi: 10.1145/3580281.
• Yiming Zhang, Li Wang, Shun Gai, Qiwen Ke, Wenhao Li, Zhenlong Song, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu. Oasis: Controlling Data Migration in Expansion of Object-Based Storage Systems. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 19(1): 1-22, 2023.
• Yiming Zhang, Lujia Yin, Dongsheng Li, Yuxing Peng, Kai Lu. ParaX: Bandwidth-Efficient Instance Assignment for DL on Multi-NUMA Many-Core CPUs. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). 2022, 71(11): 3032-3046. Doi: 10.1109/TC.2022.3145164.
• Shun Gai, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Xuchao Xie, Haowen Chen, Xi Zhao, Yong Dong, Zhenlong Song. UrsaX: Integrating Block I/O and Message Transfer for Ultra-Fast Block Storage on Supercomputers. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD). 2023, 42(9): 2903-2914. Doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2023.3237983.
• Yiming Zhang, Kai Lu, Wenguang Chen. Processing Extreme-Scale Graphs on China's Supercomputers. Communications of the ACM (CACM), 64(11): 60-63, 2021.
• Xinbiao Gan, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Ruibo Wang, Chunye Gong, Tiaojie Xiao, Ruigeng Zeng, Jie Liu, Kai Lu. TianheGraph: Customizing Graph Search for Graph500 on Tianhe Supercomputer. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). 2022, 33(4): 941-951. Doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2021.3100785.
• Yiming Zhang, Chengfei Zhang, Yaozheng Wang, Kai Yu, Jon Crowcroft. KylinX: Simplified Virtualization Architecture for Specialized Virtual Appliances. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 37(1-4): 1-27, 2021.
• Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, et al. GraphA: Efficient Partitioning and Storage for Distributed Graph Computation. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 14(1): 155-166, 2021.
• Zhiyao Hu, Dongsheng Li, Dongxiang Zhang, Yiming Zhang, Baoyun Peng. Optimizing Resource Allocation for Data-Parallel Jobs Via GCN-Based Prediction. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 32(9): 2188-2201, 2021.
• Yiming Zhang, Haonan Wang, Menghan Jia, Jinyan Wang, Dongsheng Li, Guangtao Xue, Kian-Lee Tan. TopoX: Topology Refactorization for Minimizing Network Communication in Graph Computations. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 28(6): 2768-2782, 2020. Doi: 10.1109/TNET.2020.3020813.
• Yiming Zhang, Huiba Li, Shengyun Liu, Jiawei Xu, Guangtao Xue. PBS: An Efficient Erasure-Coded Block Storage System Based on Speculative Partial Writes. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 16(1): 1-25, 2020.
• Dongsheng Li, Zhiyao Hu, Zhiquan Lai, Yiming Zhang, Kai Lu. Coordinative Scheduling of Computation and Communication in Data-parallel Systems. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). Doi: 10.1109/TC.2020.3039238.
• Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Ling Liu. Leveraging Glocality for Fast Failure Recovery in Distributed RAM Storage. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), 15(1): 1-24, 2019.
• Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, et al. CubicRing: Exploiting Network Proximity for Distributed In-Memory Key-Value Store. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 25(4): 2040-2053, 2017.
• Yiming Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Zhigang Sun, Feng Zhao, Jinshu Su, Xicheng Lu. CSR: Classified Source Routing in Distributed Networks. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 6(2): 464-477, 2018.
• Yiming Zhang, Rong Chang, Paul Townend. Special Section on Virtualization and Services for Cloud-Based Application Systems. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). 12(1), 2019
• Feng Huang, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Dongsheng Li, et al. meGautz: A High Capacity, Fault-tolerant and Traffic Isolated Modular Datacenter Network. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 11(1): 117-130, 2018.
• Ting Li, Yiming Zhang (Corresponding), Hao Liu, et al. Fast Compressive Spectral Clustering for Large-Scale Sparse Graph. IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD). 2022, 8(1): 193-202. Doi: 10.1109/TBDATA.2019.2931532.
• Yiming Zhang, Ling Liu. Distributed Line Graphs: A Universal Technique for Designing DHTs Based on Arbitrary Regular Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 24(9): 1556-1569, 2012.
• Yiming Zhang, Lei Chen, Xicheng Lu, Dongsheng Li. Enabling Routing Control in a DHT. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC), 28(1): 28-38, 2010.

Selected Awards:

• Science & Technology Award, First Class, granted by China Computer Federation (CCF), Dec. 2021
• No. 1 in the Graph500 List (TianheGraph), ranked by Graph500 Steering Committee, June 2021
• Outstanding Dissertation Award, awarded by China Computer Federation (CCF) to the top 10 dissertations chosen nationally, Jan. 2011
• Distinguished Chinese Student Scholarship, granted by the Chinese Ministry of Education and HP to the top 12 PhD students chosen nationally, Jul. 2008
• Ciyungui Scholarship, awarded by NUDT to the top 1% PhD students, Dec. 2008
• Found of Innovation, awarded by Hunan Province for excellent research, Sep. 2008

History:

• 2021.01 ~ Now: Professor, Shanghai Zhiyuan Academy of Artificial Intelligence. Working on Secure storage in the cloud.
• 2013.12 ~ 2020.12: Associate Professor, School of Computer at NUDT. Working on cloud computing and large-scale machine learning.
• 2012.06 ~ 2013.06: Visiting Researcher, System Research Group, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge. Studying Exokernel and virtual machines.
• 2011.04 ~ 2011.11: Visiting Researcher, Wireless & DCN group at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). Studying RAM-based key-value store and cloud failure modeling.
• 2008.12 ~ 2013.12: Assistant Professor, School of Computer at NUDT. Working on datacenter network topology design.
• 2006.05 ~ 2008.12: Worked for PhD thesis on P2P networking.

Professional Service:

• Member of 2022 EuroSys Roger Needham Award Committee
• Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers
• Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
• PC Chair of IEEE Conference on BigData Processing Systems (2018), JointCloud Computing (2017), Large-Scale Clustering Algrithms (2016)
• PC member of IEEE AAAI (2020), ICWS (2017 ~ 2022), ICDCS (2017, 2011), P2P (2010)
• Corresponding editor of Special Issue "Virtualization and Services for Cloud-Based Application Systems" of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Projects:

• Efficient Storage and Complex Queries for OLDI Applications (National Science Foundation of China, NSFC)
• Efficient P2P Networks Based on Directed Line Graphs (Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education)

Last modified: March 20, 2023