Brief Biography: Zhijun Yang is a Ph.D. student in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) advised by Prof. Yu Hua. He received B.E. degree in Computer Science from HUST in 2023. His research interests include distributed computing, emerging memory and network technologies, and resource pooling.


[SOSP] Zhijun Yang, Yu Hua, Ming Zhang, Menglei Chen, Xumin Chen, Aoyang Tong. "XTRA: Unifying Cache Coherence and Concurrency Control for Distributed Transactions in a CXL Pod". In Proceedings of the 32nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2026. (Acceptance rate: 62/390=15.9%).
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[OSDI] Zhijun Yang, Yu Hua, Ming Zhang, Menglei Chen, Yixiao Wang. "FORGE: Mitigating Synchronization Amplification for Memory-Disaggregated Caching Systems". In Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), July 13-15, 2026. (Acceptance rate: 136/681=20%).
Nominated for the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award.
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[FAST] Menglei Chen, Yu Hua, Zhijun Yang, Yixiao Wang, Xumin Chen. "CloverRec: Cost-Efficient Disaggregated Processing-in-Memory Systems for Deep Recommendation Inference". In Proceedings of the 25th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2027. (Acceptance rate: 18/92=19.6%).
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[OSDI] Ming Zhang, Yu Hua, Zhijun Yang. "Motor: Enabling Multi-Versioning for Distributed Transactions on Disaggregated Memory". In 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Santa Clara, California, USA, July 10-12, 2024. USENIX Association, pages 801-819, 2024. (Acceptance rate: 53/276=19.2%).
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  • Shadow Program Committee Member in EuroSys 2026 (Spring & Fall)

  • SOSP 2026 Student Scholarship
  • OSDI 2026 Student Grant, USENIX
  • Merit Postgraduate, 2024
  • Scholarship for Scientific and Technological Innovation, 2024

  • Outstanding Graduates, 2023
  • Excellent Performance in Summer Workshop in School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2021
  • Merit Undergraduate, 2021~2022
  • People Scholarship, 2020~2022

As a so-called tech scavenger, I enjoy exploring various computer hardware and building systems.