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.

OSDI '24 File Systems Verification

Using Dynamically Layered Definite Releases for Verifying the RefFS File System. Mo Zou, Dong Du, Mingkai Dong, Haibo Chen. In Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '24), Santa Clara, CA, US, July, 2024.

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.

Nature DNA Storage & Computing

DNA-based programmable gate arrays for general-purpose DNA computing. Hui Lv, Nuli Xie, Mingqiang Li, Mingkai Dong, Chenyun Sun, Qian Zhang, Lei Zhao, Jiang Li, Xiaolei Zuo, Haibo Chen, Fei Wang, Chunhai Fan. Nature (2023).

FAST '22 File Systems Persistent Memory

HTMFS: Strong Consistency Comes for Free with Hardware Transactional Memory in Persistent Memory File Systems. Jifei Yi, Mingkai Dong, Fangnuo Wu, Haibo Chen. In the 20th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '22), Santa Clara, CA, USA, February 22-24, 2022.

FAST '22 Persistent Memory

MT^2: Memory bandwidth Regulation on Hybrid NVM/DRAM Platforms. Jifei Yi, Benchao Dong, Mingkai Dong, Ruizhe Tong, Haibo Chen. In the 20th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '22), Santa Clara, CA, USA, February 22-24, 2022.

APSys '20

On the Precision of Precise Event Based Sampling. Jifei Yi, Benchao Dong, Mingkai Dong, Haibo Chen. In Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys '20), Tsukuba, Japan, August 2020.

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.

ATC '17 File Systems Persistent Memory

Soft Updates Made Simple and Fast for Non-volatile Memories. Mingkai Dong, Haibo Chen. In Proceedings of the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '17), Santa Clara, CA, USA, July 2017.

ToS Distributed K/V Erasure Coding

Efficient and Available In-memory KV-Store with Hybrid Erasure Coding and Replication. Haibo Chen, Heng Zhang, Mingkai Dong, Zhaoguo Wang, Yubin Xia, Haibing Guan and Binyu Zang. ACM Transactions on Storage, 2017.

APSys '16 File Systems Persistent Memory

Rethinking Benchmarking for NVM-based File Systems. Mingkai Dong, Qianqian Yu, Xiaozhou Zhou, Yang Hong, Haibo Chen and Binyu Zang. In Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys '16), Hong Kong, China, August 2016.

FAST '16 Distributed K/V Erasure Coding

Efficient and Available In-memory KV-Store with Hybrid Erasure Coding and Replication. Heng Zhang, Mingkai Dong, Haibo Chen. In Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '16), Santa Clara, CA, USA, February 2016.

CAL Persistent Memory Architecture

Persistent Transactional Memory. Zhaoguo Wang, Han Yi, Ran Liu, Mingkai Dong and Haibo Chen. IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 2015.