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.

Publications OASIS Lab
Erci Xu

Giorgio (Erci) Xu

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

All publications

Cloud Storage

Building efficient, elastic storage for production clouds.

FAST'24

EBS Glory

Design choices and lessons from a decade of evolving cloud block storage.

Best Paper Award

Paper PDF Slides Video

FAST'26

Here, There and Everywhere

Rethinking cloud local storage across performance, availability, and cost.

Erik Riedel Best Paper Award

Paper PDF Slides Video

Reliability

Understanding failures and keeping large systems dependable.

FAST'23

Perseus

Finding storage devices that still function but suffer unexpected slowdowns.

Best Paper Award

Paper PDF Dataset Slides Video

FAST'27

Kratos

Detecting diverse patterns of disk fail-slow behavior at scale.

Paper PDF

AI Systems

Making AI infrastructure observable, efficient, and scalable.

OSDI'26

StriaTrace

Tracing and diagnosing performance anomalies in production LLM inference.

Paper PDF Slides Video

SOSP'26

CrystalLLM

Faithfully emulating large-scale LLM training with a small number of GPUs.

Paper PDF

Contact Me

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News

  • Paper

    Lean has been accepted to ATC'26. Congrats to the team!

  • Award

    Our work received the Huawei OlympusMons Pioneer Award. See the announcement.

  • Service

    Invited to serve on FAST'28 PC.

  • Career

    Joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) as a StarTrack Scholar.

  • Paper

    Two papers, CrystalLLM and ACDC, have been accepted to SOSP'26. Congratulations to the teams!

  • Paper

    Kratos has been accepted to FAST'27. Congratulations to Ruidan and the team!

  • Service

    Appointed as a Young Associate Editor (YAE) for Frontiers of Computer Science.

  • Service

    Redha Gouicem and I are co-chairing the SOSP'26 Doctoral Workshop (SysDW'26). Submit your work by June 25 via HotCRP!

  • Service

    Bingzhe Li and I are co-chairing the FAST'27 Artifact Evaluation Committee. We are recruiting AEC members — deadline May 15. Apply here!

  • Paper

    TridentANN has been accepted to ISCA'26. Congratulations to Yuchen!

  • Paper

    Thrilled to announce that we have FOUR papers accepted to OSDI'26 (3 accepted + 1 conditionally accepted)! Congratulations to all!

  • Award

    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!!!

  • Service

    I will co-chair FAST'27 AEC, SOSP'26 Doctoral Workshop, and Chinasys'26 Spring. Contribute and join these amazing events!

  • Paper

    One paper has been accepted by NSDI'26. Congrats to the team! See you in Renton.

  • Paper

    Four papers have been accepted by FAST'26. Congrats to the teams! See you in Santa Clara.

  • Service

    Invited to serve on Eurosys'27 PC.

  • Paper

    Our paper on cloud observability has been accepted to OSDI'26 (one-shot revision from OSDI'25). Congrats to the DiTing Team!

  • Award

    Received CCF Technical Advancement Award (2nd-Tier).

  • Service

    Pengfei and I will co-chair this year's Chinasys Fall Cycle, submit your work here.

  • Award

    Received CCF-IST Youth Innovation Award.

  • Paper

    Omar has been accepted to ACM Eurosys'26. Congrats to Xinqi and the team! See you guys in Edinburgh!

  • Service

    Invited to serve on OSDI'26, FAST'27 PC and Eurosys'26 (Fall Cycle).

  • Paper

    Sandman has been accepted to ACM SOSP'25. Congrats to Yanbo and the team! See you guys in Seoul!

  • Talk

    Invited to give a (virtual) talk at Imperial College London.

  • Career

    Joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a tenure-track associate professor!!!

  • Service

    Invited to serve on DSN'26 PC.

  • Paper

    CableCache has been accepted to ACM HotStorage'25.

  • Service

    Juncheng Yang and I will co-chair FAST'26 Artifact Evaluation Committee. Self-nominate for AEC and submit your artifacts !!!

  • Talk

    Invited to give a (virtual) talk at Iowa State University.

  • Award

    GogetaFS has won Distinguished Artifacts @ FAST'25. Check the code here.

  • Talk

    Invited to give a talk at ICT@CAS.

  • Service

    Invited to serve on USENIX NSDI'26 PC.

  • Service

    Janki (FIU) and I are co-chairing the Poster & WiP for USENIX FAST'25. Submit by Jan. 17th.

  • Paper

    Our paper on merged metadata in DedupFS has been accepted by USENIX FAST'25. See you in Santa Clara.

  • Paper

    Our paper on scheduling cloud archival systems has been accepted by ACM TACO.

  • Service

    Invited to serve on USENIX FAST'26 PC.

  • Service

    Invited to serve on USENIX ATC'25 PC.

  • Service

    Invited to serve on ICDCS'25 PC.

  • Paper

    One paper has been accepted to ACM ToS.

  • Talk

    Invited to give a talk on "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Doing System Research" at MBZUAI.

  • Service

    Invited to serve on Eurosys'25 PC (Fall). See you guys in Rotterdam, again.

  • Talk

    Invited to give a talk on "How to Write a System Paper" at Arizona State University.

  • Paper

    Our paper on EBS traffic analysis has been accepted to Eurosys'25. See you guys in Rotterdam.

  • Talk

    Invited to give a virtual talk at Northeastern University and Boston University.

  • Service

    Invited to serve on FAST'25 PC.

  • Talk

    Invited to give a virtual talk on Cloud Block Store at UIUC Systems Research Seminar 2024 Spring.

  • Service

    Invited to serve TPC on NSDI'25, DSN'25 and Chinasys'24 Summer.

  • Talk

    Invited to give a virtual guest lecture on cloud computing at University of Virginia.

  • Talk

    Invited to give a talk on "How to Write a System Paper" at CUHK, Tsinghua University and HIT(SZ). Slides coming soon...

  • Award

    Our EBS paper has won FAST'24 Best Paper Award!

  • Paper

    Our paper on defending Ransomware in the Cloud has been accepted to OSDI'24. See you guys in Santa Clara.

  • Talk

    Invited to give a talk on "How to Write a System Paper" at Zhejiang University.

Professional Service

Program Co-chair

  • Artifact Evaluation Committee Co-ChairFAST'27FAST'26
  • Doctoral Workshop Co-ChairACM SOSP'26
  • Program Co-ChairChinasys'26 SpringChinasys'25 Winter
  • WiP & Poster Program Co-ChairFAST'25

Technical Program Committee Member

  • USENIX OSDI2026
  • USENIX FAST2025202620272028
  • USENIX NSDI20252026
  • USENIX/ACM ATC2025
  • ACM Eurosys202520262027
  • IEEE ICDCS2025
  • IEEE DSN20252026
  • Chinasys2021 Winter2023 Fall2024 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

  1. 2026

    Huawei OlympusMons Pioneer Award Award Announcement

  2. 2026

    USENIX FAST'26 Erik Riedel Best Paper Award Here, There and Everywhere

  3. 2025

    CCF Technical Advancement Award (2nd-Tier) CCF Award Announcement

  4. 2025

    CCF-IST Youth Innovation Award

  5. 2025

    Distinguished Artifacts Award from USENIX FAST'25 GogetaFS

  6. 2024

    USENIX FAST'24 Best Paper Award What's the Story in EBS Glory

  7. 2023

    ACM SIGOPS China Rising Star Award The 25th ChinaSys Workshop

  8. 2023

    USENIX FAST'23 Best Paper Award Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework

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