{"id":30,"date":"2016-02-10T09:12:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vancouver.labs.wsu.edu\/xuechen-zhang\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2025-04-30T08:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:37:44","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vancouver.labs.wsu.edu\/xuechen-zhang\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1455126036975\" class=\"row single gutter pad-top\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<header>\n<h2>Refereed Conference Publications:<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ol>\n<li>Rubayet Rongon and <strong>Xuechen Zhang. <\/strong>&#8220;iAUG: Accelerating Augmentation with Importance Sampling in Deep Neural Network Training&#8221;. In Proceedings of the 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EURO-PAR&#8217;25), Dresden, Germany, August 2025. <span class=\"s1\">(Acceptance Rate: 29%)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Weijian Chen, Shuibing He, Haoyang Ou, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>. &#8220;LeapGNN: Accelerating Distributed GNN Training Leveraging Feature-Centric Model Migration&#8221;.\u00a0 In the 23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST &#8217;25), Santa Clara, CA, February 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 21.5%)<\/li>\n<li>Siling Yang, Shuibing He, Wenjiong Wang, Yanlong Yin, Tong Wu, Weijian Chen, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Xina-He Sun, and Dan Feng, &#8220;GOPIM: GCN-Oriented Pipeline Optimization for PIM Accelerators&#8221;. In The 31st IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-31), Las Vegas, NV, March 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 21%)<\/li>\n<li>Rubayet Rongon, Chen Cao, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, &#8220;A Study of Data-Path Bugs in PyTorch with a Focus on Memory Management&#8221;. In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData&#8217;24), Washington DC, December 2024. (Acceptance Rate: 18.8%)<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Zhe Pan, Shuibing He, Xu Li, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Yanlong Yin, Rui Wang, Lidan Shou, Mingli Song, Xian- He Sun, and Gang Chen. Enumeration of Billions of Maximal Bicliques in Bipartite Graphs without Using GPUs. In Proceedings of the ACM\/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC\u201924), Atlanta, GA, November 2024. <\/span><span class=\"s2\">(<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Acceptance Rate: 22.7%<\/span><span class=\"s2\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tong Wu, Shuibing He, Jianxin Zhu, Weijiang Chen, Siling Yang, Ping Chen, Yanlong Yin, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Xian-He Sun, Gang Chen. AUTOHET: An Automated Heterogeneous ReRAM-Based Accelerator for DNN Inference. In Proceedings of the 53rd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP\u201924), Gotland, Sweden, August 2024. (Acceptance rate: 29%)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Keegan Sanchez, Alex Gavin, Suren Byna, Kesheng Wu, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>. A High-Performance Collective I\/O Framework Leveraging Node-Local Persistent Memory. In Proceedings of the 30th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EURO-PAR&#8217;24), Madrid, Spain, August 2024. <span class=\"s1\">(Acceptance Rate: 29%)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Zhenxin Li, Shuibing He, Zheng Dang, Peiyi Hong,<strong> Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Rui Wang, and Fei Wu, CCL- BTree: A Crash-Consistent Locality-Aware B+-Tree for Reducing XPBuffer-Induced Write Amplification in Persistent Memory. In Proceedings of The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys \u201924), Athens, Greece, April 2024. <span class=\"s1\">(Acceptance Rate: 16%)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Zhe Pan, Shuibing He, Xu Li, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Rui Wang, and Gang Chen, &#8220;Efficient Maximal Biclique Enumeration on GPUs&#8221;, In Proceedings of <span class=\"s1\">ACM\/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC\u201923), Denver, CO, November 2023. (Acceptance Rate: 24%)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Weijian Chen, Shuibing He, Yaowen Xu, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Siling Yang, Shuang Hu, Xian-He Sun, and Gang Chen, &#8220;iCACHE: An Importance-Sampling-Informed Cache for Accelerating I\/O-Bound DNN Model Training&#8221;, In Proceedings of the 29<sup>th<\/sup> IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture\u00a0(HPCA-29), Montreal, QC, Canada, February 2023. <span class=\"s1\">(Acceptance Rate: 25%)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">Brian Koga, Theresa Vanderweide, Xinghui Zhao, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>. BlinkNet: Software-Defined Deep Learning Analytics with Bounded Resources. In Proceedings of 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA&#8217;22), Nassau, The Bahamas, December 2022. (Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 32%)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Shuibing He, Matthew Myers, Xuehao Duan, Keegan Sanchez, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>. WAFLASH: Taming Unaligned Writes in Solid-State Disks. In Proceedings of 16th IEEE International Conference On Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS\u201922), Philadelphia, PA, October 2022.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Brandon Lavinsky and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, &#8220;PM-Rtree: A Highly-Efficient Crash-Consistent R-tree for Persistent Memory&#8221;. In Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM\u201922), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2022. (Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 22%)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Zheng Dang, Shuibing He, Peiyi Hong, Zhenxin Li, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Xian-He Sun, Gang Chen, &#8220;NVAlloc: Rethinking Heap Metadata Management in Persistent Memory Allocators&#8221;, In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS&#8217;22), Lausanne, Switzerland, February 2022. <span class=\"s1\">(Acceptance Rate: 20%)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Yekang Wu and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>. &#8220;NVSwap: Latency-Aware Paging using Non-Volatile Main Memory&#8221;. <span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Proceedings of <\/span><\/span>15th IEEE International Conference On Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS&#8217;21), Riverside, CA, October 2021.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ping Chen, Shuibing He, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Shuaiben Chen, Peiyi Hong, Yanlong Yin, and Xian-He Sun. &#8220;CSWAP: A Self-Tuning Compression Framework for Accelerating Tensor Swapping in GPUs&#8221;. In Proceedings of the IEEE Cluster 2021 (Cluster&#8217;21), Online, September 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 29%)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Siling Yang, Weijian Chen, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Shuibing He, Yanlong Yin, and Xian-He Sun. &#8220;Automated DNN Pruning and Mapping for ReRAM-based Accelerator&#8221;. In Proceedings of International Conference on Supercomputing 2021 (ICS&#8217;21), Worldwide online event, June 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 24%).<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tyler Coy, Shuibing He, Bin Ren, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>. &#8220;Compiler Aided Checkpointing using Crash-Consistent Data Structures in NVMM Systems&#8221;. In Proceedings of International Conference on Supercomputing 2020 (ICS&#8217;20), Barcelona, Spain, June 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 30%). <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Soklong Lim, Zaixin Lu, Bin Ren, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, &#8220;Enforcing Crash Consistency of Evolving Network Analytics in Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems&#8221;, In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT&#8217;19), Seattle, WA, September 2019. (Acceptance Rate: 25%)<\/li>\n<li>Ian Kosen, Zhi Chen, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>. &#8220;Enabling QoS-Aware Processing of PMU Data on Unified Storage Infrastructure&#8221;, In Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics (SGSMA\u201919), College Station, Texas, USA, May 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Soklong Lim, Jun Hao, Zaixin Lu, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, and Zhao Zhang, &#8220;Approximating the k-Minimum Distance Rumor Source Detection in Online Social Networks&#8221;, In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN\u201918), Hangzhou, China, July 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 29.5%)<\/li>\n<li>Suman Karki, Bao Bguyen, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, \u201cQoS Support for Scientific Workflows using Software-Defined Storage Resource Enclaves\u201d, 32th IEEE International Parallel &amp; Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS\u201918), Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 24.5%)<\/li>\n<li>Fang Zheng, Bao Nguyen, and\u00a0<strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, &#8220;Feature Guided In-Situ Indices Generation and Data Placement on Distributed Deep Memory Hierarchies&#8221;. The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS&#8217;17), Shenzhen, China, December 2017. (Acceptance Rate: 29%)<\/li>\n<li>Bao Nguyen, Tan Hua, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, \u00a0&#8220;Large-scale Adaptive Mesh Simulations Through Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory&#8221;, ACM\/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC&#8217;17), Denver, CO, November 2017. (Acceptance Rate: 18.6%)<\/li>\n<li>Jian Huang, Michael R. Allen-Bond, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, &#8220;Semantic-Aware Checking for Finding Deep Bugs in Fast Path&#8221;,\u00a0Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS&#8217;17), Xi&#8217;an, China, April 2017. (Acceptance Rate: 17.4%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Ujjwal Khanal, Xinghui Zhao and Stephen Ficklin, &#8220;Understanding Software Platforms for In-memory Scientific Data Analysis: A Case Study of the Spark System&#8221;. The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS&#8217;16),\u00a0Wuhan, China, December, 2016. (Acceptance Rate: 29%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Fang Zheng, Karsten Schwan, and Matthew Wolf, \u201dFlashStager: Improving the Performance of SSD-based Data Staging Systems via Write Redirection\u201d. Short paper. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster&#8217;16), Taipei, Taiwan, September 2016. (Acceptance Rate: 34%)<\/li>\n<li>Jian Huang, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, and Karsten Schwan, &#8220;Understanding Issue Correlations: A Case Study of the Hadoop System&#8221;, The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2015 (SOCC&#8217;15), Kohala Cost, HI, August 2015. (Acceptance Rate: 21%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Jianqiang Ou, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, &#8220;Orthrus: A Framework for Implementing High-performance Collective I\/O in the Multicore Clusters&#8221;,The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC&#8217;14), Leipzig, Germany, June 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Jai Dayal, Drew Bratcher, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Hasan Abbasi, Scott Klasky and Norbert Podhorszki, \u201dFlexpath: Type-Based Publish\/Subscribe System for Large- scale Science Analytics\u201d,the 14th IEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID&#8217;14), Chicago, IL, May 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 19%)<\/li>\n<li>Jian Huang, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf, Stephane Ethier, and Scott Klasky, \u201dScibox:Online Sharing of Scientific Data via the Cloud\u201d, IEEE IPDPS, Tucson, AZ, May 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 21%)<\/li>\n<li>Dachuan Huang, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Wei Shi, Mai Zheng, Song Jiang, and Feng Qin, \u201dLiU:Hiding Disk Access Latency for HPC Applications with a New SSD-Enabled Data Layout\u201d, IEEE MASCOTS, San Francisco, CA, August 2013. (Acceptance Rate: 27%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Jianqiang Ou, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, \u201cOrthrus: A Framework for Implementing High- performance Collective I\/O in the Multicore Clusters\u201d, Short paper, ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC\u201913), New York, June 2013. (Acceptance Rate: 26%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Ke Liu, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, \u201diBridge: Improving Unaligned Parallel File Access with Solid-State Drives\u201d, IEEE IPDPS, Boston, MA, May 2013. (Acceptance Rate: 21%)<\/li>\n<li>Ke Liu, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, \u201dSynergistic Coupling of SSD and Hard Disk for QoS-aware Virtual Memory\u201d, IEEE ISPASS, Austin, TX, April 2013. (Best Paper Candidate)<\/li>\n<li>Ajay Gulati, Ganesha Shanmuganathan,<strong> Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, and Peter Varman, \u201dDemand Based Hierarchical QoS Using Storage Resource Pools\u201d, USENIX ATC, Boston, MA, June 2012. (Acceptance Rate: 17.8%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, \u201diTransformer: Using SSD to Improve Disk Scheduling for High-performance I\/O \u201d, IEEE IPDPS, Shanghai, China, May 2012. (Acceptance Rate: 21%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, \u201dOpportunistic Data-driven Execution of Parallel Programs for Efficient I\/O Services\u201d, IEEE IPDPS, Shanghai, China, May 2012. (Acceptance Rate: 21%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, \u201dQoS Support for End Users of I\/O-intensive Applications using Shared Storage Systems\u201d, ACM\/IEEE SC, Seattle, WA, November 2011. (Acceptance Rate: 21%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Yuehai Xu, and Song Jiang, \u201dYouChoose: A Performance Interface Enabling Convenient and Efficient QoS Support for Consolidated Storage Systems \u201d, IEEE MSST, Denver, Colorado, May 2011. (Best Student Paper)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, \u201dIOrchestrator: Improving the Performance of Multi-node I\/O Systems via Inter-Server Coordination\u201d, ACM\/IEEE SC, New Orleans, LA, November 2010. (Acceptance Rate: 20%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong> and Song Jiang, \u201dInterferenceRemoval: Removing Interference of Disk Access for MPI Programs through Data Replication\u201d, ACM ICS, Tsukuba, Japan, June 2010. (Acceptance Rate: 17.8%)<\/li>\n<li>Lei Zhang, Guiquan Liu, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, and Song Jiang, \u201dStorage Device Performance Prediction with SBCART(Selective Bagging Classification and Regression Tree) Models\u201d, IFIP NPC, Zhengzhou, China, September 2010. (Acceptance Rate: 27%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Guiquan Liu, and Song Jiang, \u201dImprove Throughput of Storage Cluster Interconnected with a TCP\/IP Network Using Intelligent Server Grouping\u201d, IFIP NPC, Zhengzhou, China, September 2010. (Best Paper Candidate)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, \u201dMaking Resonance a Common Case: A High-performance Im- plementation of Collective I\/O on Parallel File Systems \u201d, IEEE IPDPS, Rome, Italy, May 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 21%)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1455126351676\" class=\"row single gutter pad-top\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<header>\n<h2>Refereed Journal Articles:<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Dang Zheng, Shuibing He, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Peiyi Hong, Zhenxin Li, Xinyu Chen, Haozhe Song, Xian-He Sun, and Gang Chen, &#8220;PMAlloc: A Holistic Approach to Improving Persistent Memory Allocation&#8221;. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Siling Yang, Shuibing He, Hexiao Duan, Weijian Chen, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Tong Wu, and Yanlong Yin, &#8220;APQ: Automated DNN Pruning and Quantization for ReRAM-based Accelerators&#8221;, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 34, no. 9, Sep. 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Ping Chen, Shuibing He, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Shuaiben Chen, Peiyi Hong, Yanlong Yin, and Xian-He Sun, &#8220;Accelerating Tensor Swapping in GPUs with Self-Tuning Compression&#8221;, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 33, issue 12, December 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Soklong Lim, Tyler Coy, Zaixin Lu, Bin Ren, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, &#8220;NVGRAPH: Enforcing Crash Consistency of Evolving Network Analytics in NVMM Systems&#8221;, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 31, no. 6, June 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Shuibing He, Yanlong Yin, Xian-He Sun,<strong> Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Zongpeng Li, &#8220;Optimizing Parallel I\/O Accesses through Pattern-Directed and Layout-Aware Replication&#8221;. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC),\u00a0 <span class=\"s1\">vol. 69, no. 2, February 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Ian Kosen, Can Huang, Zhi Chen, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Emma Stewart, Liang Min, Dao Zhou, Lin Zhu, and Yilu Liu. &#8220;UPS: Unified PMU-Data Storage System to Enhance T+D PMU Data Usability&#8221;. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG), 2019. (Accepted)<\/li>\n<li>Bao Nguyen, Hua Tan, Kei Davis, and\u00a0<strong>Xuechen Zhang.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cPersistent Octrees for Parallel Mesh Refinement Through Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory\u201d, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS),\u00a0Volume 30, Issue 3, March 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Suman Karki, Bao Nguyen, Joshua Feener, Kei Davis, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, &#8220;Enforcing End-to-end I\/O Policies for Scientific Workflows using Software-Defined Storage Resource Enclaves&#8221;,\u00a0IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (TMSCS), Volume 4, Issue 4, October-December 2018.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Fang Zheng, Bao Nguyen. &#8220;DeStager: Feature Guided In-Situ Data Management in Distributed Deep Memory Hierarchies&#8221;, Special Issue on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), Springer. (DOI: 10.1007\/s10619-018-7235-3)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Song Jiang, Alseny Diallo, and Lei Wang, &#8220;IR+: Removing Parallel I\/O Interference of MPI Programs through Data Replication on Heterogeneous Storage Devices&#8221;, Journal of Parallel Computing (ParCo), Elsevier, vol. 76, pages 91-105, 2018. (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.parco.2018.01.004)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Ujjwal Khanal, Xinghui Zhao, and Stephen Ficklin, &#8220;Making Sense of Performance in In-memory Computing Frameworks for Scientific Data Analysis: A Case Study of the Spark System&#8221;, Special issue on In-memory Computing, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Elsevier (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jpdc.2017.10.016).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Kei Davis, Song Jiang, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, and Ke Liu, \u201dMaking Memory Swapping Practicable: Synergistic Coupling of SSD and Hard Disk for QoS-Aware Virtual Memory\u201d, ADTSC Science Highlights, Los Alamos, May 2012. LA-UR 13-20839.<\/li>\n<li>Kei Davis, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Ke Liu, and Song Jiang, \u201diBridge: Improving Unaligned Parallel File Access with Solid-State Drives\u201d, ADTSC Science Highlights, Los Alamos, May 2012. LA-UR 13-20839.<\/li>\n<li>Kei Davis, Song Jiang, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, \u201diTransformer:Using SSD to Improve Disk Scheduling for High-performance I\/O\u201d, ADTSC Science Highlights, Los Alamos, May 2012. LA-UR 12-20429.<\/li>\n<li>Kei Davis, Song Jiang, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, \u201dOpportunistic Data-driven Execution of Parallel Programs for Efficient I\/O Services\u201d, ADTSC Science Highlights, Los Alamos, May 2012. LA-UR 12-20429.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Yuehai Xu, and Song Jiang, \u201dYouChoose: Choosing your Storage Device as a Performance Interface to Consolidated I\/O Service\u201d, ACM Transactions on Storage, vol. 7, no. 3, article 8, October 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Song Jiang, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Shuang Liang, and Kei Davis, \u201dImproving Networked File System Performance Using a Locality-Aware Cooperative Cache Protocol\u201d, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 59, no. 11, November 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1467821262631\" class=\"row single gutter pad-top\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<header>\n<h2>Refereed Workshop Publications:<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Brian Koga, Theresa Vanderweide, Xinghui Zhao, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>. &#8220;BlinkNet: Software-Defined Deep Learning Analytics with Bounded Resources&#8221;. In Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Accelerated Machine Learning (AccML) Co-located with European Network on High-performance Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC&#8217;21), Online, January 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Tyler Coy and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, &#8220;Enforcing Crash Consistency of Scientific Applications in Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems, In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Fault Tolerance for HPC at eXtreme Scale&#8221; (FTXS&#8217;19) in conjunction with the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC&#8217;19).<\/li>\n<li>Bao Nguyen, Hua Tan, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, and Kei Davis, &#8220;Large-Scale Adaptive Mesh Simulations Through Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory&#8221;, 10th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop, San Diego, CA, March 2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Hasan Abbasi, Kevin Huck, and Allen D. Malony, &#8220;WOWMON: A Machine Learning-based Profiler for Self-adaptive Instrumentation of Scientific Workflows&#8221;, International Conference on Computational Science Workshop &#8211; Tools for Program Development and Analysis in Computational Science, San Diego, CA, June 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1456835176820\" class=\"row single gutter pad-top\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<header>\n<h2>Refereed Poster Papers:<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Keegan Sanchez, Alex Gavin, Suren Byna, Kesheng Wu, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, &#8220;PM-Aware Collective I\/Os&#8221;, SC&#8217;23, Denver, CO, November 2023.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">Tyler Coy and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, \u00a0&#8220;Enforcing Crash Consistency of Scientific Applications in Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems&#8221;, SC&#8217;19, Denver, CO, November 2017.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">Bao Nguyen, Tan Hua, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, \u00a0&#8220;Large-scale Adaptive Mesh Simulations Through Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory&#8221;, SC&#8217;17, Denver, CO, November 2017.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Swann Perarnau, Rinku Gupta, Pete Beckman\u00a0 with <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong> and et al.,\u00a0&#8220;Argo: An Exascale Operating System and Runtime&#8221;, SC&#8217;15, Austin, TX, November 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Jian Huang, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Karsten Schwan, \u201dUnderstanding Issue Correlations: A Case Study of the Hadoop System\u201d, SOCC\u201915, Kohala Coast, HI, August 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Jian Huang, <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf, Stephane Ethier, and Scott Klasky, \u201dScibox: Online Sharing of Scientific Data via the Cloud\u201d, ACM\/IEEE SC\u201913, Denver, Colorado, November 2013.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Jianqiang Ou, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, \u201dOrthrus: A Framework for Implementing High- performance Collective I\/O in the Multicore Clusters\u201d, ACM HPDC\u201913, New York, June 2013. (Acceptance Rate: 26%)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Kei Davis, and Song Jiang, \u201dQoS Support for End Users of I\/O-intensive Applications using Shared Storage Systems\u201d, ACM\/IEEE SC\u201911, Seattle, WA, November 2011.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>, Ajay Gulati, and Ganesha Shanmuganathan, \u201dStorage Resource Pools with IO Reservation\u201d, VMWorld, 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<h2>Refereed Conference Publications:<\/h2>\n<p>Rubayet Rongon and <strong>Xuechen Zhang. <\/strong>&#8220;iAUG: Accelerating Augmentation with Importance Sampling in Deep Neural Network Training&#8221;. In Proceedings of the 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EURO-PAR&#8217;25), Dresden, Germany, August 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 29%)<br \/> Weijian Chen, Shuibing He, Haoyang Ou, and <strong>Xuechen Zhang<\/strong>. &#8220;LeapGNN: Accelerating Distributed GNN Training Leveraging Feature-Centric Model Migration&#8221;.\u00a0 In the 23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST &#8217;25), Santa Clara, CA, February 2025. 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