
Hello, and welcome!
I am a final-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at Rutgers University, advised by Prof. Sudarsun Kannan.
I will be joining the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) as a
Tenure-Track Assistant
Professor this fall and am actively seeking several
self-motivated PhD students and RAs to join my group (2025 Fall/2026 Spring/2026 Fall). If you are interested, please feel free to contact me with your CV and transcripts.
Research
My current researchs lie in operating system design and its intersection with storage systems, distributed systems, and high-performance computing.
Conference Publications
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]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]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]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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Workshop Publications
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]Exploring CISCOps for Near-Storage File Systems
Jian Zhang, Yujie Ren, Sudarsun Kannan
14th annual non-volatile memories workshop (NVMW '23)
[paper]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)
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Experiences
- 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
- Artifact Evaluation Committee: SOSP 2021
Contact
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