Jiacheng Shen

Jiacheng Shen

Assistant Professor
Duke Kunshan University

About Jiacheng

Jiacheng Shen is an incoming tenure-track assistant professor at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) starting from October 2024. He received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (supervised by Prof. Michael R. Lyu), and a B.Sc degree in Computer Science from Fudan Unversity in 2020.

Jiacheng’s research interests span machine learning systems, distributed systems, and data center resource disaggregation. His works have been published at top systems venues, including SOSP, OSDI, FAST, ICDCS, DSN, etc.

Recruiting

I'm looking for Ph.D./MPhil/RA students starting from 2025 spring/fall to work with me on machine learning systems and distributed systems.

If you are interested in working with me, fill in this quick survey or drop me an email (jc.shen@dukekunshan.edu.cn) with the subject "{PhD|MPhil|RA}-{Your Name}" (e.g., PhD-Jiacheng Shen) with your CV and transcripts attached.

See openings for more details.

News

  • I will serve as PC members for ICDCS’25 and USENIX ATC’25.
  • Our new paper CHIME: A Cache-Efficient and High-Performance Hybrid Index on Disaggregated Memory has been accepted by SOSP 2024!
  • We are maintaining a paper list tracking advances in resource disaggregation and memory disaggregation. Check here for more information!
  • Our new paper Ditto: An Elastic and Adaptive Memory-Disaggregated Caching System has been accepted by SOSP 2023!

Selected Publications

  1. Jiacheng Shen, Pengfei Zuo, Xuchuan Luo, Yuxin Su, Jiazhen Gu, Yangfan Zhou, Hao Feng, and Michael R. Lyu. Ditto: An Elastic and Adaptive Memory-Disaggregated Caching System. To appear in the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 2023. (PDF, Code)
  2. Xuchuan Luo, Pengfei Zuo, Jiacheng Shen, Jiazhen Gu, Xin Wang, Michael Lyu, Yangfan Zhou. SMART: A High-Performance Adaptive Radix Tree for Disaggregated Memory. In the 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 2023. (PDF, Code)
  3. Jiacheng Shen, Pengfei Zuo, Xuchuan Luo, Tianyi Yang, Yuxin Su, Yangfan Zhou, and Michael R. Lyu. FUSEE: A fully memory-disaggregated key-value store. In Ashvin Goel and Dalit Naor, editors, 21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, FAST 2023. (PDF, Code)
  4. Jiacheng Shen, Tianyi Yang, Yuxin Su, Yangfan Zhou, and Michael R. Lyu. Defuse: A dependency-guided function scheduler to mitigate cold starts on faas platforms. In 2021 IEEE 41th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. ICDCS 2021. (PDF)