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 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Prague, Czech Republic, September 29–October 2, 2026, pages 269–285. (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), Seattle, WA, USA, July 13–15, 2026, pages 977–995. (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), Renton, WA, USA, February 23–25, 2027 (to appear). (Acceptance rate: 17/92=18.5%).
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[OSDI] Ming Zhang, Yu Hua, Zhijun Yang. "Motor: Enabling Multi-Versioning for Distributed Transactions on Disaggregated Memory". In Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Santa Clara, CA, USA, July 10–12, 2024, pages 801–819. (Acceptance rate: 53/276=19.2%).
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  • Shadow Program Committee Member in EuroSys 2026 (Spring & Fall)

  • National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, 2026
  • 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.