Skip to content

News

Papers, awards, grants, and people, from 2021 to today.

2026

    • πŸš€ We’ve launched LooseLeaf, a highly efficient Jupyter notebook platform offering free serverless GPUs to everyone at UVA. Learn more about the LooseLeaf design in our paper preprint on arXiv.
    • πŸŽ‰ Congrats to Yuqi and Ruizhe on Allpass accepted to ACM SoCC 2026!
    • Our survey paper on resource-efficient LLMs is published at ACM Computing Surveys!
    • πŸŽ‰ Congrats to Zirui and Zhaoyuan on LatentStore and Zero-Prefill accepted to NSDI 2027! Stay tuned for more updates on the projects!
    • πŸŽ‰ Congrats to Tingfeng, Zirui, Yunjia, and Zhaoyuan on TensorDex accepted to SOSP 2026! TensorDex explores fine-grained tensor-level relationships across massive AI model hubs to achieve significant lossless reduction in large-scale model storage. Stay tuned for more updates on the project!
    • πŸŽ‰ One paper accepted to SC'26. Congratulations to Patrick and the team!
    • πŸŽ‰ Congrats to Tingfeng and Yusen on ZenFlow accepted to SIGMOD 2027! ZenFlow enables stall-free offloaded LLM training and is integrated in DeepSpeed.
    • πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to Tingfeng on receiving the EuroSys’26 Distinguished AEC Award!
    • πŸŽ“ Three Ph.D. students from DS2 are graduating this semester. Yuqi Fu will be starting a faculty position in academia. Zhaoyuan Su will be joining Snowflake AI Research. Rui Yang will be joining the ByteDance AI infra team. Congratulations to all three!
    • We have released BitX, a high-performance, lossless compressor for safetensors model files (paper, Rust crate). BitX achieves 10+ GB/s compression throughput, making it practical for large-scale model storage and transfer. We've also open-sourced ZipLLM, our model-aware data reduction pipeline. Access the project website to learn more about the project. Check them out and share your feedback!
    • πŸŽ‰ Two papers accepted to MLSys'26. Congrats to Zhaoyuan and Rui!

2025

    • Thrilled to receive a CCI award (with Songqing Chen from GMU). Thanks, CCI!
    • πŸš€ ZenFlow has now been officially adopted into DeepSpeed and is also featured on the PyTorch blog!
    • πŸŽ‰ Congrats to Ruizhe and Yuqi on their paper accepted to IMC 2025!
    • πŸŽ“ Ben Carver successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Carver!! Ben will be joining the AI Networking Infrastructure team @ Meta as a Research Scientist, where he'll work on cutting-edge infrastructure to support next-gen AI.
    • πŸŽ‰ Congrats to Zirui, Tingfeng, and Zhaoyuan on ZipLLM accepted to NSDI 2026! We analyzed all publicly available LLM repos on Hugging Face and built effective, efficient data reduction algorithms tailored for massive-scale LLM storage. Stay tuned for more updates!
    • πŸŽ‰ Congrats to Ben and Jingyuan on NotebookOS accepted to ASPLOS 2026! In this work, we built a GPU-efficient distributed Notebook platform that enables on-demand GPU allocation for interactive training workloads such as LLM fine-tuning. Stay tuned for more updates on the project! Stay tuned for more info about the code release.
    • πŸŽ‰ Congrats to Qichang on CIDRE accepted to ASPLOS 2025!
    • πŸŽ‰ Congrats to Ruizhe on the IPFS data management work accepted to WWW 2025!

2024

    • Congrats to Redwan on FedCaSe on federated learning I/O caching and scheduling accepted to SoCC 2024!
    • πŸ‘‹ A warm welcome to our newest members Zirui Wang and Tingfeng Lan! We're excited to have you both on board.
    • Thrilled to receive an NSF CSSI Elements grant on developing a sustainable and GPU-efficient cyberinfrastructure for Notebooks (w/ Co-PI Geoffrey Fox). Thanks, NSF!
    • Congrats to Yuqi and Ruizhe on ALPS accepted to USENIX ATC 2024! ALPS learns workload intelligence from the user space to inform serverless function scheduling in the kernel space.
    • This summer Yuqi will be doing a student researcher internship at Google and Zhaoyuan will be doing a research internship at Samsung. Congrats!
    • Excited to receive an NSF OAC Core grant on building a distributed graph learning cyberinfrastructure for large spatiotemporal prediction (w/ Liang Zhao from Emory). Thanks, NSF!
    • Congrats to Ruizhe on the IPFS analysis work accepted to SIGMETRICS 2024! We answered questions about accessibility, content, and performance of IPFS in this research.
    • Congrats to Zhaoyuan, Ammar, and Zirui on their work accepted to VLDB 2024! In this work, Zhaoyuan analyzed a large dataset of real-world pre-trained ML models collected from Hugging Face. Based on the analysis study, he designed a new storage compression method for reducing the storage requirement of pre-trained models at scale.
    • Congrats to Rui on his work accepted to VLDB 2024! In this work, Rui systematically studied the algorithmic complexity vulnerabilities of dynamic learned indexes.

2023

    • πŸ† Excited to receive a Samsung GRO 2023 Award on New Storage for Large ML Training (w/ Ali Anwar from UMN). Thanks, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Samsung Memory Solutions Lab, for the generous support on our research!
    • Serving as the general co-chair of ACM HotStorage'24. Consider submitting your exciting early ideas!
    • πŸŽ“ My first Ph.D. student Jingyuan Zhang successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang! Jingyuan will be joining the cloud-native infrastructure team @ ByteDance (San Jose, CA).
    • Congrats to Ben, Runzhou, and Jingyuan on the acceptance of Ξ»FS to ASPLOS'23! The acceptance of Ξ»FS at ASPLOS'23 marks yet another significant milestone of our serverless storage project series. Don't forget to check out our projects: Episode I - InfiniCache, Episode II - InfiniStore, and our latest work, Episode III - Ξ»FS.
    • Congrats to Jingyuan, Ben, and the team on the acceptance of InfiniStore to VLDB 2023!

2022

    • Congrats to Redwan, Ahmad, and Yuqi on their paper on deep learning I/O caching accepted to FAST 2023!
    • Our group moved to the University of Virginia in Fall'22.
    • πŸ… SFS is nominated as a Best Student Paper Award Finalist at SC'22!! Congrats to Yuqi!
    • Congrats to Yuqi on his paper on serverless function scheduling accepted to SC'22!
    • This summer my students will intern at MSR (Ben Carver), ByteDance (Yuqi Fu, Jingyuan Zhang), and Argonne National Lab (Zhaoyuan Su)! Congrats!
    • Yue received an Outstanding Teacher Award from CS @ Mason!
    • Rui received an Outstanding GTA Award from CS @ Mason! Congratulations!

2021

    • Congrats to Zheng on FedAT accepted to SC'21!
    • Congrats to Ao on FaaSNet accepted to ATC'21!
    • Yue received a gift from Adobe Research for our work on serverless computing! Thanks, Adobe!
    • Yue received an NSF CAREER Award for our work on building serverless cloud storage infrastructure. Thanks, NSF!