* Co-first author     # Corresponding author

2026

1. Scheduling Cloud Block Storage Proactively and Reactively with Omar
   by Xinqi Chen, Weidong Zhang, Zhongyu Wang, # Erci Xu , Xiaolu Zhang, Dong Wu, Junping Wu, Haonan Wu, Ruiming Lu, Yaheng Song, Chaolei Hu, Lijun Ding, Guangtao Xue, Patrick P.C. Lee
   21st ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, Eurosys'26 (CCF-A).
   

2025

2. Sleeping with One Eye Open: Fast, Sustainable Storage with Sandman
   by Yanbo Zhou, # Erci Xu , Anisa Su, Jim Harris, Adam Manzanares, Steven Swanson
   31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP'25 (CCF-A).
   

3. Don't Maintain Twice, It's Alright: Merged Metadata Management in Deduplication File System with GogetaFS Distinguished Artifacts Award
   by Yanqi Pan, # Wen Xia , # Erci Xu , Hao Huang, Xiangyu Zou, Shiyi Li
   23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'25 (CCF-A).
      

4. AtomicDisk: A Secure Virtual Disk for TEEs against Eviction Attacks
   by Hongliang Tian, Xinyi Yu, Shaowei Song, Qingsong Chen, Zhihao Zhang, Shiyu Wang, Weijie Liu, Erci Xu, Shoumeng Yan, Yiming Zhang
   23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'25 (CCF-A).
     

5. Hey Hey, My My, Skewness Is Here to Stay: Challenges and Opportunities in Cloud Block Store Traffic
   by Haonan Wu, # Erci Xu , Ligang Wang, Yuandong Hong, Changsheng Niu, Bo Shi, Lingjun Zhu, Jinnian He, Dong Wu, Weidong Zhang, Qiuping Wang, Changhong Wang, Xinqi Chen, Guangtao Xue, Yi-Chao Chen, Dian Ding
   20th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, Eurosys'25 (CCF-A).
     

2024

6. Ransom Access Memories: Achieving Practical Ransomware Protection in Cloud with DeftPunk
   by Zhongyu Wang, Yaheng Song, # Erci Xu , Haonan Wu, Guangxun Tong, Haoran Li, Jincheng Liu, Lijun Ding, Rong Liu, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu
   18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI'24 (CCF-A).
     

7. CSAL: the Next-Gen Local Disks for the Cloud
   by Yanbo Zhou, # Erci Xu , Li Zhang, Kapil Karkra, Mariusz Barczak, Wayne Gao, Wojciech Malikowski, Mateusz Kozlowski, Łukasz Łasek , Ruiming Lu, Feng Yang, Lilong Huang, Xiaolu Zhang, Wenrui Li, Jinhu Li, Keqiang Niu, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu
   19th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, Eurosys'24 (CCF-A).
     

8. What's the Story in EBS Glory: Evolutions and Lessons in Building Cloud Block Store Best Paper Award
   by Weidong Zhang, # Erci Xu , Qiuping Wang, Xiaolu Zhang, Yuesheng Gu, Zhenwei Lu, Tao Ouyang, Guanqun Dai, Wenwen Peng, Zhe Xu, Shuo Zhang, Dong Wu, Yilei Peng, Tianyun Wang, Haoming Zhang, Jiasheng Wang, Wenyuan Yan, Yuanyuan Dong, Wenhui Yao, Zhongjie Wu, Lingjun Zhu, Chao Shi, Yinhu Wang, Rong Liu, Junping Wu, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu
   22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'24 (CCF-A).
     

2023

9. DiffForward: On Balancing Forwarding Traffic for Modern Cloud Block Services via Differentiated Forwarding
   by Wenzhe Zhu, Yongkun Li, Erci Xu, Fei Li, Yinlong Xu, John C.S. Lui
   2023 ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGMETRICS'23 (CCF-B).
   

10. Deploying User-space TCP at Cloud Scale with LUNA
    by Lingjun Zhu, Yifan Shen, # Erci Xu , Bo Shi, Ting Fu, Shu Ma, Shuguang Chen, Zhongyu Wang, Haonan Wu, Zhendan Yang, Xingyu Liao, Wei Lin, Yijun Hou, Rong Liu, Chao Shi, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu
    2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, ATC'23 (CCF-A).
      

11. Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems Best Paper Award
    by * Ruiming Lu , * Erci Xu , Yiming Zhang, Fengyi Zhu, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu
    21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'23 (CCF-A).
       

12. SMRSTORE: A Storage Engine for Cloud Object Storage on HM-SMR Drives
    by Su Zhou, Erci Xu (corresponding), Hao Wu, Yu Du, Jiacheng Cui, Wanyu Fu, Chang Liu, Yingni Wang, Wenbo Wang, Shouqu Sun, Xianfei Wang, Bo Feng, Biyun Zhu, Xin Tong, Weikang Kong, Linyan Liu, Zhongjie Wu, Jinbo Wu, Qingchao Luo, Jiesheng Wu
    21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'23 (CCF-A).
      

13. When Database Meets New Storage Devices: Understanding and Exposing Performance Mismatches via Configurations
    by Haochen He, Erci Xu, Shanshan Li, Zhouyang Jia, Si Zheng, Yue Yu, Jun Ma, Xiangke Liao
    49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB'23 (CCF-A).
     

14. Understanding and Detecting On-the-Fly Configuration Bugs Distinguished Paper Award
    by Teng Wang, Zhouyang Jia, Shanshan Li, Si Zheng, Yue Yu, Erci Xu, Shaoliang Peng, Xiangke Liao
    45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE'23 (CCF-A).
     

2022

15. NVMe SSD Failures in the Field: the Fail-Stop and the Fail-Slow
    by * Ruiming Lu , * Erci Xu , Yiming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu
    2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, ATC'22 (CCF-A).
       

16. imDedup: A Lossless Deduplication Scheme to Eliminate Fine-grained Redundancy among Images
    by Cai Deng, Qi Chen, Xiangyu Zou, Erci Xu, Bo Tang, Wen Xia
    38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE'22 (CCF-A).
    

2021

17. Challenges and Opportunities: an In-depth Empirical Study on Configuration Error Injection Testing
    by Wang Li, Zhouyang Jia, Shanshan Li, Yuanliang Zhang, Teng Wang, Erci Xu, Ji Wang, Xiangke Liao
    30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA'21 (CCF-A).
     

18. Max: A Multicore-Accelerated File System for Flash Storage
    by Xiaojian Liao, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Jiwu Shu
    2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, ATC'21 (CCF-A).
       

19. Concordia: Distributed Shared Memory with In-network Cache Coherence
    by Qing Wang, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Junru Li, Youmin Chen, Jiwu Shu
    19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies., FAST'21 (CCF-A).
      

20. DepOwl: Detecting Dependency Bugs to Prevent Compatibility Failures
    by Zhouyang Jia, Shanshan Li, Tingting Yu, Zeng Chen, Erci Xu, Xiaodong Liu, Ji Wang, Xiangke Liao
    43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE'21 (CCF-A).
     

2020

21. Write Dependency Disentanglement with HORAE
    by Xiaojian Liao, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Jiwu Shu
    14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI'20 (CCF-A).
      

22. CP-Detector: Using Configuration-related Performance Properties to Expose Performance Bugs
    by Haochen He, Zhouyang Jia, Shanshan Li, Erci Xu, Tingting Yu, Yue Yu, Ji Wang, Xiangke Liao
    35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE'20 (CCF-A).
     

23. CoinPurse: A Device-Assisted File System with Dual Interfaces
    by Zhe Yang, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Jiwu Shu
    57th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC'20 (CCF-A).
    

2019

24. Lessons and Actions: What We Learned from 10K SSD-Related Storage System Failures CCF Storage Distinguished Paper Award
    by Erci Xu, Mai Zheng, Feng Qin, Yikang Xu, Jiesheng Wu
    2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, ATC'19 (CCF-A).
      

2018

25. Understanding SSD Reliability in Large-Scale Cloud Systems
    by Erci Xu, Mai Zheng, Feng Qin, Jiesheng Wu, Yikang Xu
    3rd IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage & Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems, PDSW-DISCS'18.
    

2016

26. Neutrino: Revisiting Memory Caching for Iterative Data Analytics
    by Erci Xu, Mohit Saxena, Lawrence Chiu
    8th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, HotStorage'16.
    

FAST'25 Distinguished Artifact Award

FAST'24 Best Paper Award

FAST'23 Best Paper Award

SIGOPS China Rising Star

CCF-IST Youth Innovation Award.

CCF-IST Top-10 Storage Paper.

      Program Co-chair

• Doctoral Workshop Co-Chair @ ACM SOSP'26

• Artifact Evaluation Committee Co-Chair @ FAST'26

• File System, Storage, and Database Area Chair @ Chinasys'25

• WiP & Poster Program Co-Chair @ FAST'25

• Technical Program Committee Member

• USENIX OSDI: 2026

• USENIX FAST: 2025, 2026, 2027

• USENIX NSDI: 2025, 2026

• USENIX ATC: 2025

• ACM Eurosys: 2025 (Fall)

• IEEE ICDCS: 2025

• IEEE DSN: 2025, 2026

• Chinasys: 2021 (Winter), 2023 (Fall), 2024 (Summer)