About me

To prospective students: I am looking for undergraudate/graduate students with strong interests in big data systems, storage systems, embedded systems/software research. If you are interested, please send me email with your CV and transcripts.

Teaching

• CSCI3150: Introduction to Operating Systems (Term 1 2020/21 ;Terms 1/2, 2019/20 ;Term 1, 2018/19;)
• ENGG 5101/CENG 5410: Advanced Computer Architecture (Term 2, 2018/19)

Research

• Research Interests: Embedded Systems/Software and Storage Systems

• Recent Selected Papers (Full Publication List):

• Yungang Pan, Zhiping Jia, Zhaoyan Shen, Bingzhe Li, Wanli Chang, and Zili Shao, "Reinforcement Learning-Assisted Framework to Mitigate Long-Tail Latency in DM-SMR Drive", The 58th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA, December 5-9, 2021.
• Zhiqi Wang, Jin Xue, and Zili Shao, "Heracles: An Efficient Storage Model and Data Flushing for Performance Monitoring Timeseries", The 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2021), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 16-20, 2021.
• Kecheng Huang, Zhiping Jia, Zhaoyan Shen, Zili Shao and Feng Chen, "Less is More: De-amplifying I/Os for Key-value Stores with a Log-assisted LSM Tree", The 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Crete, Greece, April 19-23, 2021.
• Siqi Shang, Qihong Wu, Tianyu Wang, and Zili Shao, "LiteIndex: Memory-Efficient Schema-Agnostic Indexing for JSON documents in SQLite", The 26th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Virtual Conference, Janruary18-21, 2021.
• Tianyu Wang, Qi Wang, Zhaoyan Shen, Zhiping Jia and Zili Shao, "Understanding Intrinsic Characteristics and System Implications of DAG-based Blockchain", The International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS 2020), Virtual Conference, December 10-11, 2020 (The Best Paper Award).
• Tianyu Wang , Wenbin Zhu, Qun Ma, Zhaoyan Shen and Zili Shao, "ABACUS: Address-partitioned Bloom filter on Address Checking for UniquenesS in IoT Blockchain", The 2020 International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Virtual Conference, November 2-5, 2020.
• Chenlin Ma , Yi Wang , Zhaoyan Shen and Zili Shao, "KFR: Optimal Cache Management with K-Framed Reclamation for Drive-Managed SMR Disks", The 57th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA, July 19-23, 2020.
• Yuhao Zhang, Zhiping Jia, Yungang Pan, Hongchao Du, Zhaoyan Shen , Mengying Zhao and Zili Shao, "PattPIM: A Practical ReRAM-based DNN Accelerator by Reusing Weight Pattern Repetitions", The 57th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA, July 19-23, 2020.
• Runyu Zhang, Duo Liu , Xianzhang Chen, Xiongxiong She, Chaoshu Yang, Yujuan Tan, Zhaoyan Shen and Zili Shao, "LOFFS: A Low-Overhead File System for Large Flash Memory on Embedded Devices", The 57th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA, July 19-23, 2020.

Professioinal Activities

• Journal Editorship

• ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2015 -
• IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2016 -
• ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 2015 - 2020.
• IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2014-2018

• Conference Committee Chairmanship

• General Co-Chair in IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2018)
• Subcommittee Chair (Embedded Software Track) in 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2018)
• Program Chair for 16th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2017)
• Subcommittee Chair (Embedded Storage and IO Track) in 53rd Design Automation Conference (DAC 2017)
• General Co-Chair of the 4th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory System and Applications Symposium (NVMSA 2016)

• Conference TPC memeber

• The International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
• The Design Automation Conference (DAC 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
• Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
• The Design, Automation, and Test in Europe conference (DATE 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
• ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)