11/2026
We released the FreeInference Agentic Dataset, a large-scale trace of human-driven agentic workloads with a session explorer.
10/2026
Received the Google Machine Learning and Systems Junior Faculty Award!
10/2026
cacheMon is live! It is the home of our caching work, including S3-FIFO, SIEVE, libCacheSim, and open production cache traces.
10/2026
TensorDex received the Distinguished Artifact Award!
10/2026
OpenInfra is public! This is part of the infrastructure behind FreeInference serving 500B tokens every month.
09/2026
Our paper Demystifying and Improving Lazy Promotion in Cache Eviction received the Best Paper Honorable Mention at VLDB'26!
08/2026
I am teaching a new class this Fall on Modern AI Systems:
Agents and System Optimizations!
05/2026
FreeInference service is alive! Try it out at freeinference.org!
04/2026
Congratulations to Yiyan on joining CMU for Ph.D., Marthen to join Harvard for Ph.D. and Haekal to
join Rutgers for Ph.D.!
04/2026
We launched the Harvard Systems Group.
02/2026
Received two NVIDIA DGX Spark from NVIDIA to support our research. Thank you!
02/2026
I am chairing the MLSys'26 artifact evaluation committee. Please submit your artifacts and consider volunteering as a reviewer!
01/2026
I am teaching a new class on Modern Computer Storage
Systems this Spring.
01/2026
I am organizing the New England Systems Day
2026 at Harvard.
04/2025
I am chairing the FAST'26 artifact evaluation committee. Please submit your artifacts and consider
volunteering as a reviewer!
01/2024
SIEVE received a community award at NSDI'24, was featured on
TLDR newsletter and discussed in
a blog post by Marc.
Many open-source libraries (in more than 12 languages) are available on GitHub.
12/2023
S3-FIFO was discussed in
Aleksey's Online Reading Group,
covered by blogs in
English,
Chinese,
Korean,
and Japanese,
used in UIUC CS525,
and implemented at Google, VMware, Redpanda
and in many open-source libraries and systems, e.g.,
otter,
quick-cache,
surrealkv,
spica.
11/2023
I will talk about how S3-FIFO can enhance the sustainability of data serving at WOS'23
08/2023
Recognized as a Rising Star in machine learning and systems
08/2023
Invited talk at Cloudflare, Alluxio, VMware, Kuaishou, MSRA, USTC, Tsinghua University on S3-FIFO
05/2023
Honored to be a Google Cloud Research Innovator with funding from Google Cloud
10/2022 – 02/2023
Invited talk at VMware, Meta and Oracle on LESSCache: LEarned Segment-Structured cache
10/2022
Invited keynote speaker to talk about ubiquitous caching at
QCon SF
08/2022
Invited talk at Alluxio on JVM offheap caching with Segcache
10/2021
Kangaroo has received SOSP best paper award
04/2021
Segcache has received NSDI community award (one of the best paper awards)
09/2020
Gave a keynote talk together with Yao Yue at SNIA SDC on
using PMEM for caching
01/2020
Received Facebook Fellowship on computer storage and efficiency! Thank you, Facebook!