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Jian Huang

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science (Affiliate)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Office: CSL 212, 1308 W Main St, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: jianh at illinois dot edu, Phone: 217-300-3104

CSL / ECE / CS / UIUC

I enjoy building systems. My research interests lie in the areas of computer systems, including memory/storage systems, operating systems, systems architecture, systems security, distributed systems, and especially the intersections of them.

I lead the Systems Platform Research Group at UIUC.

Before I joined UIUC in January 2018, I worked on a startup company. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in August 2017. During my Ph.D study, I specialized in building memory and storage systems that have benefited platforms spanning from wearables to mobiles to large-scale data centers.

I am looking for self-motivated and talented Ph.D. students. If you also enjoy building systems, please contact me with your CV.

Recent Research Highlights

P-INSPECT presents a hardware-assisted approach to checking persistent objects in NVM programming frameworks (MICRO'20).
FReaC Cache enables reconfigurable computing in the last level cache for accelerating near-data computing (MICRO'20).
Watcher presents an in-situ failure diagnosis mechanism for pinpointing root causes of in-production software failures (OOPSLA'20).
Our research on memory/storage systems receives fund support from Western Digital. Thank you WDC!
Our research on flash-based storage receives continuous fund support from SK Hynix. Thank you SK Hynix!
Hoop presents an efficient out-of-place update approach for reducing the memory persistency overhead of NVM (ISCA'20).
PFSCheck takes an initial study and detection of crash consistency bugs in various popular parallel file systems (HotStorage'20).
Our research EVR on VR workload characterization and accelerator design has been selected to Micro Top Picks'20.
Our research on secure storage system is funded by Army Research. Thank you ARO!
DeepStore develops in-storage accelerators for supporting new and emerging deep learning based data queries (MICRO'19).
An NSF SPX project (as lead-PI) on software-defined data center is awarded. Thank you NSF!
FS Vulnerability Study presents an empirical study of the most common security vulnerabilities in file systems (APSys'19).
Project Almanac receives popular media coverage, such as ACM CACM, TechXplore, ScienceDaily, Health IT Infrastructure
iSwitch proposes an In-Switch Computing system architecture to accelerate distributed reinforcement learning (ISCA'19).
Halo presents a near-cache accelerator solution to scale the flow classification and packet processing for NFV (ISCA'19).
EVR proposes an energy-efficient system architecture to accelerate the 360-degree video processing for VR (ISCA'19).
SDC proposes a software-defined cache archtecture for efficient data indexing with a generic simple abstraction(ICS'19).
I received the Google Faculty Research Award to support our research on memory/storage systems. Thank you Google!
AutoPersist creates a new programming model and an ease-of-use NVM framework for Java programming language (PLDI'19).
Project Almanac presents a new flash-based solid-state drive that provides the firmware-isolated time-traveling property (EuroSys'19).
FlatFlash presents a unified memory and storage architecture to exploit the byte-accessibility of solid-state drives (ASPLOS'19).
QuickCheck uses speculation to reduce the performance overhead of checking persistent objects in NVM frameworks (VEE'19).
A sole-PI grant is awarded from NSF CRII to support my research on storage systems. Thank you NSF!
I received the Intel gift fund to support our research on networked computing systems. Thank you Intel!
I received the NetApp Faculty Fellowship Award to support our research on storage systems. Thank you NetApp!

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