Faculty

Email:rongchen@sjtu.edu.cn
Address:上海市东川路800号软件楼
Institute:Institute of Parallel And Distributed Systems
Brief Introduction
I have been a professor in the School of Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a member of the Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPADS) since January 2012. I earned my Bachelor's (2000), Master's (2004), and Ph.D (2011) degrees (Advisor: Prof. Binyu Zang) in computer science, all from Fudan University. My research interests include operating systems, distributed systems, and hardware-software co-design, with a current focus on building high-performance, scalable, and working systems for emerging AI-powered applications, from cloud to edge. My work has been recognized by Best Paper Awards from EuroSys (2024 and 2015), APSys (2017), and ICPP (2007), as well as the Huawei OlympusMons Pioneer Award (2020). I am both an ACM Distinguished Member and a CCF Distinguished Member.
Teaching Assignment
Introduction to Computer Systems: 2026–2012
Operating Systems: 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013
Distributed Systems: 2016, 2015, 2014
Advanced Distributed Systems: 2026–2017, 2013, 2012
Computer System Design & Implementation: 2019, 2018, 2017
Publications
[EuroSys] Accurate and Ultra-Fast Launch-Time Validation of Idempotency for GPU Kernels. Mingcong Han, Weihang Shen, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 21th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Edinburgh, UK, April 2026.
[EuroSys] KunServe: Parameter-centric Memory Management for Efficient Memory Throttling Handling in LLM Serving. Rongxin Cheng, Yuxin Lai, Xingda Wei, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 21th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Edinburgh, UK, April 2026.
[SOSP] PhoenixOS: Concurrent OS-level GPU Checkpoint and Restore with Validated Speculation. Xingda Wei, Zhuobin Huang, Tianle Sun, Yingyi Hao, Rong Chen, Mingcong Han, Jinyu Gu, and Haibo Chen. The 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Seoul, Republic of Korea, October 2025.
[OSDI] XSched: Preemptive Scheduling for Diverse XPUs. Weihang Shen, Mingcong Han, Jialong Liu, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, US, July 2025.
[OSDI] BlitzScale: Fast and Live Large Model Autoscaling with O(1) Host Caching. Dingyan Zhang, Haotian Wang, Yang Liu, Xingda Wei, Yizhou Shan, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, US, July 2025.
[USENIX ATC] Colocating ML Inference and Training with Fast GPU Memory Handover. Jiali Wang, Yankui Wang, Mingcong Han, and Rong Chen. 2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, US, July 2025.
[USENIX ATC] KVCache Cache in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing KVCache Cache at a Large Cloud Provider. Jiahao Wang, Jinbo Han, Xingda Wei, Sijie Shen, Dingyan Zhang, Chenguang Fang, Rong Chen, Wenyuan Yu, and Haibo Chen. 2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, US, July 2025.
[OSDI] Fast and Scalable In-network Lock Management Using Lock Fission. Hanze Zhang, Ke Cheng, Rong Chen*, and Haibo Chen. The 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, CA, US, July 2024.
[EuroSys] Serialization/Deserialization-free State Transfer in Serverless Workflows. Fangming Lu, Xingda Wei, Zhuobin Huang, Rong Chen, Mingyu Wu, and Haibo Chen. The 19th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Athens, Greece, April 2024. Best Paper Award
[SOSP] UGACHE: A Unified GPU Cache for Embedding-based Deep Learning Systems. Xiaoniu Song, Yiwen Zhang, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Koblenz, Germany, October 2023.
[OSDI] No Provisioned Concurrency: Fast RDMA-codesigned Remote Fork for Serverless Computing. Xingda Wei, Fangming Lu, Tianxia Wang, Jinyu Gu, Yuhan Yang, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, US, July 2023.
[OSDI] Characterizing Off-path SmartNIC for Accelerating Distributed Systems. Xingda Wei, Rongxin Cheng, Yuhan Yang, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, US, July 2023.
[OSDI] Automated Verification of Idempotence for Stateful Serverless Applications. Haoran Ding, Zhaoguo Wang, Zhuohao Shen, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, US, July 2023.
[USENIX ATC] Bridging the Gap between Relational OLTP and Graph-based OLAP. Sijie Shen, Zihang Yao, Lin Shi, Lei Wang, Longbin Lai, Qian Tao, Li Su, Rong Chen, Wenyuan Yu, Haibo Chen, Binyu Zang, and Jingren Zhou. 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, US, July 2023.
[OSDI] Microsecond-scale Preemption for Concurrent GPU-accelerated DNN Inferences. Mingcong Han, Hanze Zhang, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 16th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Carlsbad, CA, US, July 2022.
[USENIX ATC] KRCORE: A Microsecond-scale RDMA Control Plane for Elastic Computing. Xingda Wei, Fangming Lu, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. 2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Carlsbad, CA, US. July 2022.
[EuroSys] GNNLab: A Factored System for Sample-based GNN Training over GPUs. Jianbang Yang, Dahai Tang, Xiaoniu Song, Lei Wang, Qiang Yin, Rong Chen, Wenyuan Yu, and Jingren Zhou. The 17th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Rennes, France, April 2022. Best Artifact Award (Honorable Mention)
[OSDI] Retrofitting High Availability Mechanism to Tame Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing. Sijie Shen, Rong Chen, Haibo Chen, and Binyu Zang. The 15th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, CA, US, July 2021.
[USENIX ATC] Characterizing and Optimizing Remote Persistent Memory with RDMA and NVM. Xingda Wei, Xiating Xie, Rong Chen, Haibo Chen, and Binyu Zang. 2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, July 2021.
[EuroSys] FlexGraph: A Flexible and Efficient Distributed Framework for GNN Training. Lei Wang, Qiang Yin, Chao Tian, Jianbang Yang, Rong Chen, Wenyuan Yu, Zihang Yao, and Jingren Zhou. The 16th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, April 2021.
[NSDI] Unifying Timestamp with Transaction Ordering for MVCC with Decentralized Scalar Timestamp. Xingda Wei, Rong Chen, Haibo Chen, Zhaoguo Wang, Zhenhan Gong, and Binyu Zang. The 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, US, April 2021.
[OSDI] Fast RDMA-based Ordered Key-Value Store using Remote Learned Cache. Xingda Wei, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. The 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2020
Awards
Huawei Excellent Technical Cooperation Project Award, 2025.
ACM Distinguished Member, 2024
Best Paper Award of EuroSys, 2024
Second Prize of the State Technological Invention Award, 2023
Honorable Mention of Gilles Muller Best Artifact Award of EuroSys, 2022
Honorable Mention of Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award (Co-advisor), 2021
CCF Distinguished Member, 2021
Young Scholar of Chang Jiang Scholars Program by Ministry of Education, 2021.
Huawei OlympusMons Pioneer Award, 2020
First Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Award for Technical Invention, 2019
First Prize of Technology Invention Award by Ministry of Education, 2018
ACM ChinaSys Rising Star, 2018
Best Paper Award of APSys, 2017
Excellent Bachelor Thesis (Top 1%) of SJTU (Supervisor), 2017
Best Paper Award of EuroSys, 2015
Excellent Bachelor Thesis (Top 1%) of SJTU (Supervisor), 2014
Best Paper Award of ICPP, 2007
Academic Service
Program Committee Members
OSDI: USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation: 2025, 2022, 2021, 2020
SOSP: ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles: 2024, 2023
EuroSys: European Conference on Computer Systems: 2027, 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2015
USENIX ATC: USENIX Annual Technical Conference: 2026, 2024, 2017
FAST: USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies: 2023, 2022
ASPLOS: ACM Intl. Conf. on Arch. Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems: 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2018
NSDI: USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation: 2024
Journal Editorship
Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (2024–now)
Editorial Board of Young Scientists: Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2023–now)
Youth Editorial Board Members: CCF Transactions on High Performance Computing (2023–now)
Editor of Columns: Communications of the CCF (2023–2025)