Hello, and welcome!
I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microelectronics Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and a Cross-Campus Faculty Affiliate at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Before that, I obtained my Ph.D degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University under the supervision of Prof. Sudarsun Kannan
I am actively seeking several
self-motivated PhD students (2026 Spring/2026 Fall), RAs and one PostDoc to join my group. GPU programming and OS kernel experience is a big plus. If you are interested, please feel free to contact me with your CV and transcripts.
Invited to serve on program committee
for ASPLOS '26, EuroSys '26, FAST '26 and OSDI '26.
Research
My current researchs lie in operating system design and its intersection with storage systems, distributed systems, and high-performance computing.
Conference Publications
Can a Client–Server Cache Tango Accelerate Disaggregated Storage?
Linjie Ma, Jian Zhang, Marie Nguyen, Sudarsun Kannan
17th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '25)
[To appear]PolyStore: Exploiting Combined Capabilities of Heterogeneous Storage
Yujie Ren, David Domingo, Jian Zhang, Paul John, Rekha Pitchumani, Sanidhya Kashyap, Sudarsun Kannan
23nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '25)
[paper] [code]Context-aware Prefetching for Near-Storage Accelerators
Jian Zhang, Marie Nguyen, Sanidhya Kashyap, Sudarsun Kannan
16th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '24)
[paper]CrossPrefetch: Accelerating I/O Prefetching for Modern Storage
Shaleen Garg*, Jian Zhang*, Rekha Pitchumani, Manish Parashar, Bing Xie, and Sudarsun Kannan (*co-first authors)
International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '24)
[paper] [code]OmniCache: Collaborative Caching for Near-storage Accelerators
Jian Zhang, Yujie Ren, Marie Nguyen, Changwoo Min, Sudarsun Kannan
22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '24)
[paper] [code]Enabling High-Performance and Secure Userspace NVM File Systems with the Trio Architecture
Diyu Zhou, Vojtech Aschenbrenner, Tao Lyu, Jian Zhang, Sudarsun Kannan, and Sanidhya Kashyap
29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '23)
Best Paper Award!
[paper] [code]Exploring CISCOps for Near-Storage File Systems
Jian Zhang, Yujie Ren, Sudarsun Kannan
14th annual non-volatile memories workshop (NVMW '23)
[paper]FusionFS: Fusing I/O Operations using CISCOps in Firmware File Systems
Jian Zhang*, Yujie Ren*, Sudarsun Kannan (*co-first authors)
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '22)
[paper] [code]CompoundFS: Compounding I/O Operations in Firmware File Systems
Yujie Ren, Jian Zhang, Sudarsun Kannan
12th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '20)
[paper]BORA: A BAG Organizer for ROS Analysis
Jian Zhang, Tao Xie, Yuzhuo Jing, Yanjie Song, Guanzhou Hu, Shu Yin
International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC '20)
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Experiences
- Reserach Intern, Adobe Research, San Jose, CA. (May.2025 - Aug. 2025)
- System Software Intern, Memory Solution Lab, Samsung, San Jose, CA. (May.2023 - Aug. 2023)
- System Software Intern, Memory Solution Lab, Samsung, San Jose, CA. (Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2022)
- Research Intern, Networking Research Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China. (Jun. 2021 - Aug. 2021)
Services
- Program Committee: OSDI 2026, ASPLOS 2026, EuroSys 2026, FAST 2026
- Artifact Evaluation Committee: SOSP 2021, OSDI/ATC 2024
Contact
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