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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. His work has received three FAST Best Paper Awards (2023, 2024, 2026), the CCF Technical Advancement Award (2025), CCF-IST Youth Innovation Award (2025), and ACM SIGOPS China Rising Star Award (2023). Most (conferrence only) of his publications are listed here. In his spare time, Erci enjoys reading and reviewing books on Goodreads. Some of the reviews (mostly in Chinese) are also posted here.

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

  • 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 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.

Professional Service

Awards

  1. USENIX FAST'26 Erik Riedel Best Paper Award - Here, There and Everywhere
  2. CCF Technical Advancement Award (2nd-Tier, 2025) - CCF Award Announcement
  3. CCF-IST Youth Innovation Award (2025)
  4. Distinguished Artifacts Award from USENIX FAST'25 - GogetaFS
  5. USENIX FAST'24 Best Paper Award - What's the Story in EBS Glory
  6. ACM SIGOPS China Rising Star Award (2023) - The 25th ChinaSys Workshop
  7. USENIX FAST'23 Best Paper Award - Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework

Crave 4 da Fav

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