About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University (advised by Jiwu Shu and Youyou Lu), and Bachelor degree from Honors College (formerly known as School of Advanced Engineering), Beihang University. During 2019 - 2020, I worked as a visiting scholar at ADSL, UW-Madison, advised by Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Xiangyao Yu.

My research area mainly covers distributed systems and storage systems. I’m particularly interested in building storage systems on emerging hardware (e.g., Non-Volatile Memory, RDMA). Recently, I am paying close attention to the “Killer Microseconds” problem. My work has been published on FAST, ICDE, ASPLOS, VLDB, Eurosys, DAC, USENIX ATC, ToS, TC, etc.

Recent News

• Dec, 2021, Plor (transactions w/ predictable and low tail latency) has been accepted by SIGMOD’22.

• May, 2021, I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation.

• Feb, 2021, Aria (a secure key-value store) has been accpeted by ICDE’21.

• Dec, 2020, Serve as a student reviewer of JSys, a diamond open-access journal covering all areas of computer systems research.

• Dec, 2020, two papers (KucoFS, Concordia) have been accepted by USENIX FAST’21.

Education

Selected Publications

Full publication list

• Plor: General Transactions with Predictable, Low Tail Latency.
  
  Youmin Chen, Xiangyao Yu, Paraschos Koutris, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Jiwu Shu,
  
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'22), 2022
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• Aria: Tolerating Skewed Workloads in Secure In-memory Key-value Stores.
  
  Fan Yang, Youmin Chen, Youyou Lu, Qing Wang, Jiwu Shu,
  
  37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'21), 2021
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• Scalable Persistent Memory File System with Kernel-Userspace Collaboration.
  
  Youmin Chen, Youyou Lu, Bohong Zhu, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Jiwu Shu,
  
  USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'21), 2021
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• Concordia: Distributed Shared Memory with In-Network Cache Coherence.
  
  Qing Wang, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Junru Li, Youmin Chen, Jiwu Shu,
  
  USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'21), 2021
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• μTree: a Persistent B+-Tree with Low Tail Latency.
  
  Youmin Chen, Youyou Lu, Kedong Fang, Qing Wang, Jiwu Shu,
  
  46th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'20), 2020
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• FlatStore: an Efficient Log-Structured Key-Value Storage Engine for Persistent Memory.
  
  Youmin Chen, Youyou Lu, Fan Yang, Qing Wang, Yang Wang, Jiwu Shu,
  
  Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'20), 2020
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• No Compromises: Secure NVM with Crash Consistency, Write-Efficiency and High-Performance.
  
  Fan Yang, Youyou Lu, Youmin Chen, Haiyu Mao, Jiwu Shu,
  
  Design Automation Conference (DAC'19), 2019
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• Scalable RDMA RPC on Reliable Connection with Efficient Resource Sharing.
  
  Youmin Chen, Youyou Lu, Jiwu Shu,
  
  Proceedings of the Fourteenth EuroSys Conference (EuroSys'19), 2019
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• Octopus: an RDMA-enabled Distributed Persistent Memory File System.
  
  Youyou Lu, Jiwu Shu, Youmin Chen, Tao Li,
  
  USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC'17), 2017
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Honors

• CCF Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2021.
• ACM SIGOPS ChinaSys Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2021.
• Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award of Tsinghua University (ranked 1st among all applicants in the CS Department), 2021.
• Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar (清华大学"水木学者"计划), 2021.
• Selected into the National Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program (中国博士后创新人才支持计划, only 14 CSers nationwide were selected), 2021.
• CCF Technological Invention Award, first prize (中国计算机协会技术发明奖一等奖，第2完成人), 2020.
• Huawei OlympusMons Award (华为奥林帕斯奖，第3完成人), 2020.
• National Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2020 (9 out of 100+ PhD students in the CS Department).
• First-class Scholarship (Huawei), Tsinghua University, 2019.
• First-class Scholarship (CreditEase), Tsinghua University, 2018.
• Run Corporation Scholarship, Beihang University, 2015.
• Second Prize Scholarship for Freshman in Beihang University, 2012.

Invited Talks

• Octopus: an RDMA-enabled Distributed Persistent Memory File System, Santa Clara, 2017
• Log-Structured Non-Volatile Memory, UCSD, 2019
• Octopus: an RDMA-enabled Distributed Persistent Memory File System, UCSD, 2019
• Scalable RDMA RPC on Reliable Connections with Efficient Resource Sharing, Dresden, Germany, 2019.

Professional Services

• [2019] Reviewer of ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), Journal of Systems and Architecture (JSA)
• [2020] Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
• [2021] Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)