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Hello! I’m Yizhou Shan, a Ph.D. candidate at University of California San Diego, CSE, advised by Prof. Yiying Zhang. I am a member of UCSD Wuklab and UCSD SysNet. I was a Purdue Boilermaker during 2016-2019. You can find my CV here.

I also own these domains:

• Disaggregated.Cloud
• LegoOS.io

Contact: ys AT ucsd DOT edu

Research News

• [Jun 2021] Start my final internship at Microsoft Research, working on Security + System.
• [Jun 2021] I proposed my thesis and became a Ph.D candidate.
• [Jan 2021] The DPM work is accepted to present at NVMW‘21
• [Jan 2021] This summer, I’m going to do my last internship at MSR Redmond on cloud confidential computing.
• [Dec 2020] Invited to join the 2021 JSys Student Editorial Board
• [Oct 2020] Serve as EuroSys‘20 Shadow PC
• [Sep 2020] Serve as OSDI‘20 Artifact Evaluation PC
• [Sep 2020] Serve as ASPLOS‘21 External Reviewer. First major conference review!
• [Apr 2020] Disaggregated Persistent Memory accepted to ATC‘20
• [Feb 2020] Talk about FPGA OS
• [Sep 2019] Moved to UCSD.
• [May 2019] Intern at VMware Research, with Marcos K. Aguilera
• [Apr 2019] Storm accpeted to SYSTOR‘19. Awarded Best Paper.
• [Jan 2019] Short paper on Disaggregated Persistent Memory accpeted to NVMW‘19
• [Jul 2018] LegoOS accepted to OSDI‘18. Awarded Best Paper.
• [May 2018] Intern at VMware Research, with Stanko Novakovic.

Research

During my doctoral research, I’m working on distributed system, networking, operating system, hardware (FPGA), and their intersections. My most recent research focus is on disaggregated datacenter, designing its hardware, OS, and upper layer applications.

All of my projects are open source at https://github.com/lastweek and https://github.com/WukLab.

See full publication list at Google Scholar.

Conferences

1. Disaggregating Persistent Memory and Controlling Them Remotely: An Exploration of Passive Disaggregated Key-Value Stores
   Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yizhou Shan, Yiying Zhang
   USENIX ATC 2020 [Paper] [Code] [Slide] [Short-Talk] [Full-Talk] [Keynote]

2. Storm: a fast transactional dataplane for remote data structures
   Stanko Novakovic, Yizhou Shan, Aasheesh Kolli, Michael Cui, Yiying Zhang, Haggai Eran, Liran Liss, Michael Wei, Dan Tsafrir, Marcos Aguilera
   ACM SYSTOR 2019 (Best Paper Award) [Paper] [Slide] [Talk]

3. LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resource Disaggregation
   Yizhou Shan, Yutong Huang, Yilun Chen, Yiying Zhang
   USENIX OSDI 2018 (Best Paper Award) [Paper] [Code] [Slide] [Keynote-iCloud] [Talk]

4. Distributed Shared Persistent Memory
   Yizhou Shan, Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yiying Zhang
   ACM SoCC 2017 [Paper] [Code] [Slide] [Poster]

Workshops

1. Disaggregating Persistent Memory and Controlling Them Remotely: An Exploration of Passive Disaggregated Key-Value Stores
   Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yizhou Shan, Yiying Zhang
   12^th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2021) [Paper]

2. Challenges in Building and Deploying Disaggregated Persistent Memory
   Yizhou Shan, Yutong Huang, Yiying Zhang
   10^th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2019) [Paper]

3. Disaggregating Memory with Software-Managed Virtual Cache
   Yizhou Shan, Yiying Zhang
   2018 Workshop on Warehouse-scale Memory Systems (WAMS 2018) (co-located with ASPLOS ‘18) [Paper]

4. Distributed Shared Persistent Memory
   Yizhou Shan, Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yiying Zhang
   9^th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2018) [Paper]

5. Disaggregated Operating System
   Yiying Zhang, Yizhou Shan, Sumukh Hallymysore
   17^th International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS 2017) [Paper]

Posters

1. Lego: A Distributed, Decomposed OS for Resource Disaggregation PDF
   Yizhou Shan, Yilun Chen, Yutong Huang, Sumukh Hallymysore, Yiying Zhang
   Poster at SOSP 2017

2. Disaggregated Operating System PDF
   Yizhou Shan, Sumukh Hallymysore, Yutong Huang, Yilun Chen, Yiying Zhang
   Poster at SoCC 2017

Social

• Google Scholar
• Github
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Goodreads

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Last update: July 28, 2021