Jiacheng Shen

Jiacheng Shen

Assistant Professor
Duke Kunshan University

About Jiacheng

Jiacheng Shen is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). 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. His research interests span machine learning systems, distributed storage systems, and data center resource disaggregation. His works have been published at top systems venues, including SOSP, OSDI, FAST, ICDCS, DSN, etc.

Openings for 26 Fall/27 Spring

I'm actively looking for Ph.D./MPhil/RA students to work with me on machine learning systems and data center resource disaggregation. Feel free to 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, if you are interested.

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News

  • Our new paper Cider: Boosting Memory-Disaggregated Key-Value Stores with Pessimistic Synchronization has been accepted by VLDB 2026! Congratulations to Yuxuan and other collaborators!
  • Invited to serve as a PC member for SOSP’26 BigMem Workshop.
  • Invited to serve as a PC member for ICDCS’26.
  • I will serve as a PC member for OSDI’26.
  • I will serve as PC members for ICDCS’25 and USENIX ATC’25.
  • Our 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!

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)