董明凯 DONG Mingkai

Associate Professor @ IPADS, SJTU

Operating Systems Research for Fun, Impact, and Insight!

Welcome!

Welcome! I am Mingkai Dong, currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPADS), School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I am interested in all aspects of operating systems, with a particular focus on file and storage systems, including kernel-level storage solutions and emerging media such as DNA storage. Of course, in the wave of “marching toward AGI,” my work has also (inevitably) expanded to large models and agents, especially storage challenges in multi-modal models.

I have published a number of papers in operating systems, mainly in storage systems, at conferences such as SOSP, OSDI, FAST, USENIX ATC, NSDI, and EuroSys, and in journals including Nature, ACM TOCS, and ACM TOS¹. For more details, please visit the Publications page.

I have also received several awards, including:

Best Paper Award at SOSP 2023, the first time since the conference’s founding in 1967 that the honor has gone to a team from Asia;
Huawei Spark Award (2022) （华为“火花奖”）;
Intel China Academic Excellence Program (2022) （英特尔中国学术英才计划荣誉学者）;
Huawei Olympus Pioneer Award (2020) （华为奥林帕斯先锋奖）;

You are also welcome to visit my Chinese personal page at IPADS.

News

2025.11.20: The new site is up! Happy to chat via email, WeChat, or offline!

Selected Publications

EuroSys '26 Distributed File Systems Networking

SwitchFS: Asynchronous Metadata Updates for Distributed Filesystems with In-Network Coordination. Jingwei Xu, Mingkai Dong, Qiulin Tian, Ziyi Tian, Tong Xin and Haibo Chen. In Proceedings of the 21th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '26), Edinburgh, UK, April, 2026.

NSDI '26 Distributed File Systems

FalconFS: Distributed File System for Large-Scale Deep Learning Pipeline. Jingwei Xu, Junbin Kang, Mingkai Dong, Mingyu Liu, Lu Zhang, Shaohong Guo, Ziyan Qiu, Mingzhen You, Ziyi Tian, Anqi Yu, Tianhong Ding, Xinwei Hu, and Haibo Chen. In Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26), Renton, WA, USA, May 4–6, 2026.

FAST '25 DNA Storage

Liquid-State Drive: A Case for DNA Block Device for Enormous Data. Jiahao Zhou, Mingkai Dong, Fei Wang, Jingyao Zeng, Lei Zhao, Chunhai Fan, Haibo Chen. In Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '25), Santa Clara, CA, US, February, 2025.

SOSP '23 Best Paper Award! Microkernel Whole-system Persistence Persistent Memory

TreeSLS: A Tree-structured Microkernel with Efficient Whole-system Persistence on NVM. Best Paper Award! Fangnuo Wu, Mingkai Dong, Gequan Mo, Haibo Chen. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '23), Koblenz, Germany, Octobar 23-26, 2023.

SOSP '19 File Systems Persistent Memory

Performance and Protection in the ZoFS User-space NVM File System. Mingkai Dong, Heng Bu, Jifei Yi, Benchao Dong, Haibo Chen. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '19), Ontario, Canada, October 2019.

ATC '19 File Systems Mobile Systems

EROFS: A Compression-friendly Readonly File System for Resource-scarce Device. Xiang Gao, Mingkai Dong, Xie Miao, Wei Du, Chao Yu, Haibo Chen. In Proceedings of the 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '19), Renton, WA, USA, July 2019.

Academic Services

I have served or am serving as a Program Committee member for OSDI (2025), FAST (2025–2026), ASPLOS (2025–2026), and NSDI (2025).

Courses

Undergraduate Course:

SE127/SE1301 Practice of Software Foundation (2019-2025) <- on-going
SE232/SE2322 Advanced Data Structures (2022-2025 Spring)
CS3601 Operating Systems (2024-2025 Fall) <- on-going
CS1501 Programming - Ideas and Methods (2021-2023 Fall)

Graduate Course:

EI6711: Advanced Operating Systems (2022-2025 Spring)

脚注:

Although the coverage looks broad, I definitely haven’t published many papers at every one of these conferences/journals 😂.