FAST'24
EBS Glory
Design choices and lessons from a decade of evolving cloud block storage.
Best Paper Award
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · OASIS Lab
Erci Xu 徐尔茨
Tenure-track Associate Professor
I study cloud storage, system reliability, and infrastructure for AI. I lead the OASIS Lab, building practical systems for efficiency, dependability, and scale.
Join OASIS Lab
I am recruiting undergraduate, MS, and PhD students interested in cloud computing, storage systems, and LLMSys. If you're interested, please reach out by email and visit the OASIS Lab website.
Selected Work
Cloud Storage
Building efficient, elastic storage for production clouds.
FAST'26
Here, There and Everywhere
Rethinking cloud local storage across performance, availability, and cost.
Erik Riedel Best Paper Award
Reliability
Understanding failures and keeping large systems dependable.
FAST'23
Perseus
Finding storage devices that still function but suffer unexpected slowdowns.
Best Paper Award
FAST'27
Kratos
Detecting diverse patterns of disk fail-slow behavior at scale.
AI Systems
Making AI infrastructure observable, efficient, and scalable.
OSDI'26
StriaTrace
Tracing and diagnosing performance anomalies in production LLM inference.
SOSP'26
CrystalLLM
Faithfully emulating large-scale LLM training with a small number of GPUs.
Contact Me
If you have any questions or need to reach out, please contact me at:
News
- Sep. 2026: Lean has been accepted to ATC'26. Congrats to the team!
- Aug. 2026: Our work received the Huawei OlympusMons Pioneer Award. See the announcement.
- Aug. 2026: Invited to serve on FAST'28 PC.
- Aug. 2026: Joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) as a StarTrack Scholar.
- Jul. 2026: Two papers, CrystalLLM and ACDC, have been accepted to SOSP'26. Congratulations to the teams!
- Jun. 2026: Kratos has been accepted to FAST'27. Congratulations to Ruidan and the team!
- May 2026: Appointed as a Young Associate Editor (YAE) for Frontiers of Computer Science.
- May 2026: Redha Gouicem and I are co-chairing the SOSP'26 Doctoral Workshop (SysDW'26). Submit your work by June 25 via HotCRP!
- Apr. 2026: Bingzhe Li and I are co-chairing the FAST'27 Artifact Evaluation Committee. We are recruiting AEC members — deadline May 15. Apply here!
- Mar. 2026: TridentANN has been accepted to ISCA'26. Congratulations to Yuchen!
- Mar. 2026: Thrilled to announce that we have FOUR papers accepted to OSDI'26 (3 accepted + 1 conditionally accepted)! Congratulations to all!
- Feb. 2026: Our paper "Here, There and Everywhere" has won the Erik Riedel Best Paper Award at FAST'26. That's 3 FAST best papers in 4 years!!!
- Jan. 2026: I will co-chair FAST'27 AEC, SOSP'26 Doctoral Workshop, and Chinasys'26 Spring. Contribute and join these amazing events!
- Dec. 2025: One paper has been accepted by NSDI'26. Congrats to the team! See you in Renton.
- Dec. 2025: Four papers have been accepted by FAST'26. Congrats to the teams! See you in Santa Clara.
- Nov. 2025: Invited to serve on Eurosys'27 PC.
- Nov. 2025: Our paper on cloud observability has been accepted to OSDI'26 (one-shot revision from OSDI'25). Congrats to the DiTing Team!
- Oct. 2025: Received CCF Technical Advancement Award (2nd-Tier).
- Sep. 2025: Pengfei and I will co-chair this year's Chinasys Fall Cycle, submit your work here.
- 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, FAST'27 PC and Eurosys'26 (Fall Cycle).
- 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 ACM 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
Program Co-chair
- Artifact Evaluation Committee Co-Chair @ FAST'27
- Doctoral Workshop Co-Chair @ ACM SOSP'26
- Artifact Evaluation Committee Co-Chair @ FAST'26
- Program Co-Chair @ Chinasys'26 Spring
- Program Co-Chair @ Chinasys'25 Winter
- WiP & Poster Program Co-Chair @ FAST'25
Technical Program Committee Member
- USENIX OSDI: 2026
- USENIX FAST: 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028
- USENIX NSDI: 2025, 2026
- USENIX/ACM ATC: 2025
- ACM Eurosys: 2025, 2026, 2027
- IEEE ICDCS: 2025
- IEEE DSN: 2025, 2026
- Chinasys: 2021 (Winter), 2023 (Fall), 2024 (Summer)
Reviewer 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
Awards
- Huawei OlympusMons Pioneer Award (2026) - Award Announcement
- USENIX FAST'26 Erik Riedel Best Paper Award - Here, There and Everywhere
- CCF Technical Advancement Award (2nd-Tier, 2025) - CCF Award Announcement
- CCF-IST Youth Innovation Award (2025)
- Distinguished Artifacts Award from USENIX FAST'25 - GogetaFS
- USENIX FAST'24 Best Paper Award - What's the Story in EBS Glory
- ACM SIGOPS China Rising Star Award (2023) - The 25th ChinaSys Workshop
- USENIX FAST'23 Best Paper Award - Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework
Crave 4 da Fav
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