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 (2022/23-T1, 2021/22-T1/T2; 2020/21-T1/T2 ;2019/20-T1/T2 ;2018/19-T1)
• ENGG 5101/CENG 5410: Advanced Computer Architecture (2022/23-T2; 2018/19-T2)

Research

• Research Interests: Embedded Systems/Software and Storage Systems

• Recent Selected Papers (DBLP Publication List):

• Zhiqi Wang and Zili Shao, "ForestTI: A Scalable Inverted-Index-Oriented Timeseries Management System with Flexible Memory Efficiency", ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2023), Seattle, WA, USA, June 18-23, 2023.
• Zizhan Chen and Zili Shao, "Transparent Runtime Change Handling for Android Apps", ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2023), Vancouver, Canada, March 25-29, 2023.
• Zhiqi Wang and Zili Shao, "TimeUnion: An Efficient Architecture with Unified Data Model For Timeseries Management Systems on Hybrid Cloud Storage", ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2022), Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 12-17, 2022.
• Yang Guo and Zili Shao, "Cymo: A Storage Model with Query-Aware Indexing for Spatio-Temporal Big Data", IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022), Bologna, Italy, July 10-13, 2022.
• Jin Xue, Zhiqi Wang, Tianyu Wang, and Zili Shao, "TagTree: Global Tagging Index with Efficient Querying for Time Series Databases", IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2022), Lyon, France, May 30-June 3, 2022.
• Tianyu Wang, Zhaoyan Shen, and Zili Shao, "Co-Mining: A Processing-in-Memory Assisted Framework for Memory-Intensive PoW Acceleration", ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2022), San Diego, CA, USA, June 13-June 17, 2022.
• Zizhan Chen, Siqi Shang, Qihong Wu, Jin Xue, Zhaoyan Shen, and Zili Shao, "An Old Friend Is Better Than Two New Ones: Dual-Screen Android", ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2022), San Diego, CA, USA, June 13-June 17, 2022.
• Jin Xue, Tianyu Wang, and Zili Shao, "MCMQ: Simulation Framework for Scalable Multi-Core Flash Firmware of Multi-Queue SSDs", The Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), Virtual Conference, March 14-23, 2022.
• Kecheng Huang, Zhaoyan Shen, Zhiping Jia, Zili Shao and Feng Chen, "Removing Double-Logging with Passive Data Persistence in LSM-tree based Relational Databases", USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2022), Santa Clara, CA, USA, February 22-24, 2022.
• Zhiqi Wang, Jin Xue, and Zili Shao, "Heracles: An Efficient Storage Model and Data Flushing for Performance Monitoring Timeseries", 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", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2021), Crete, Greece, April 19-23, 2021.

Professioinal Activities

• Journal Associate Editor

• ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2015-
• IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2016-2021
• ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 2015-2020.
• IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2014-2018

• Conference TPC memeber

• The Design Automation Conference (DAC 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022)
• The International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD 2019, 2020, 2021)
• The International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
• 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, 2022)