Jian Zhang (张坚)

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.

I successfully passed my PhD defense!

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 CISC_Ops 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 CISC_Ops 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)
  [paper]

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

• Artifact Evaluation Committee: SOSP 2021, OSDI/ATC 2024

Contact

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Misc.

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