Short Bio
Erci Xu is a tenure-track associate professor @ Shanghai Jiao Tong University who mostly focuses on cloud, storage systems, reliability and infrastructure for AI. He has published multiple papers at top venues including SOSP, OSDI, FAST, ATC and Eurosys. Most (conferrence only) of his publications are listed here. He is the recipient of two USENIX FAST Best Paper Awards FAST'23, FAST'24, Distinguished Artifacts Award from FAST'25 and ACM SIGOPS China Rising Star Award. In his spare time, Erci enjoys reading and reviewing books on Goodreads. Some of the reviews (mostly in Chinese) are also posted here.
🚀🚀🚀Exciting Opportunity!!! I am currently recruiting Undergrad/MS/PhD students who are passionate about cloud computing, storage systems, and LLMSys.
If you're interested, feel free to reach out by emails!
Contact Me
If you have any questions or need to reach out, please contact me at:
jostep90 [at] Google's eMAIL service [dot] com
OR: ercixu [at] SJTU [dot] edu [dot] cn
News
- Aug. 2025: Received CCF-IST Youth Innovation Award.
- Aug. 2025: Omar has been accepted to ACM Eurosys'26. Congrats to Xinqi and the team! See you guys in Edinburgh!
- Aug. 2025: Invited to serve on OSDI'26 and FAST'27 PC.
- Jul. 2025: Sandman has been accepted to ACM SOSP'25. Congrats to Yanbo and the team! See you guys in Seoul!
- Jun. 2025: Invited to give a (virtual) talk at Imperial College London.
- May 2025: Joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a tenure-track associate professor!!!
- May 2025: Invited to serve on DSN'26 PC.
- Apr. 2025: CableCache has been accepted to USENIX HotStorage'25.
- Apr. 2025: Juncheng Yang and I will co-chair FAST'26 Artifact Evaluation Committee. Self-nominate for AEC and submit your artifacts !!!
- Mar. 2025: Invited to give a (virtual) talk at Iowa State University.
- Feb. 2025: GogetaFS has won Distinguished Artifacts @ FAST'25. Check the code here.
- Jan. 2025: Invited to give a talk at ICT@CAS.
- Dec. 2024: Invited to serve on USENIX NSDI'26 PC.
- Dec. 2024: Janki (FIU) and I are co-chairing the Poster & WiP for USENIX FAST'25. Submit by Jan. 17th.
- Dec. 2024: Our paper on merged metadata in DedupFS has been accepted by USENIX FAST'25. See you in Santa Clara.
- Dec. 2024: Our paper on scheduling cloud archival systems has been accepted by ACM TACO.
- Nov. 2024: Invited to serve on USENIX FAST'26 PC.
- Oct. 2024: Invited to serve on USENIX ATC'25 PC.
- Sep. 2024: Invited to serve on ICDCS'25 PC.
- Sep. 2024: One paper has been accepted to ACM ToS.
- Sep. 2024: Invited to give a talk on "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Doing System Research" at MBZUAI.
- Sep. 2024: Invited to serve on Eurosys'25 PC (Fall). See you guys in Rotterdam, again.
- Aug. 2024: Invited to give a talk on "How to Write a System Paper" at Arizona State University.
- Aug. 2024: Our paper on EBS traffic analysis has been accepted to Eurosys'25. See you guys in Rotterdam.
- May 2024: Invited to give a virtual talk at Northeastern University and Boston University.
- May 2024: Invited to serve on FAST'25 PC.
- Apr. 2024: Invited to give a virtual talk on Cloud Block Store at UIUC Systems Research Seminar 2024 Spring.
- Apr. 2024: Invited to serve TPC on NSDI'25, DSN'25 and Chinasys'24 Summer.
- Mar. 2024: Invited to give a virtual guest lecture on cloud computing at University of Virginia.
- Mar. 2024: Invited to give a talk on "How to Write a System Paper" at CUHK, Tsinghua University and HIT(SZ). Slides coming soon...
- Feb. 2024: Our EBS paper has won FAST'24 Best Paper Award!
- Feb. 2024: Our paper on defending Ransomware in the Cloud has been accepted to OSDI'24. See you guys in Santa Clara.
- Jan. 2024: Invited to give a talk on "How to Write a System Paper" at Zhejiang University.
- Dec. 2023: Won ACM SIGOPS China Rising Star Award.
Professional Service
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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
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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)
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Reviewer for Journals
I am no longer accepting new review requests for journals.- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Computers
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
- ACM Transactions on Storage
- ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
Crave 4 da Fav
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