Zhiming Shen

I am working with Robbert van Renesse and Hakim Weatherspoon. My research interests are in the areas of operating systems, distributed systems, cloud computing, and virtualization.

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• 09/2020: It is a great honor to receive the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) 10-year best paper award for my work on CloudScale.

• 07/2020: I will serve as the External Review Committee member of ASPLOS 2021.

• 04/2020: I will serve as the Program Committee member of ACM SoCC'20.

• X-Containers
• Xen-Blanket
• Supercloud

• ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) 10-year best paper award: Oct. 2020
• 2015-2016 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (in Cornell Chronicle and CS News).
• IBM First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award: IBM, Oct. 2012.
• Best Paper Award: The 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jun. 2012.

• X-Containers: Breaking Down Barriers to Improve Performance and Isolation of Cloud-Native Containers
  Zhiming Shen, Zhen Sun, Gur-Eyal Sela, Eugene Bagdasaryan, Christina Delimitrou, Robbert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon
  ASPLOS 2019
• Supercloud: A Library Cloud for Exploiting Cloud Diversity
  Zhiming Shen, Qin Jia, Eyal Sela, Weijia Song, Hakim Weatherspoon, Robbert van Renesse
  ACM TOCS
• Follow the Sun through the Clouds: Application Migration for Geographically Shifting Workloads
  Zhiming Shen, Qin Jia, Eyal Sela, Ben Rainero, Weijia Song, Robbert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon
  SOCC 2016
• VMAR: Optimizing I/O Performance and Resource Utilization in the Cloud
  Zhiming Shen, Zhe Zhang, Andrzej Kochut, Alexei Karve, Han Chen, Minkyong Kim, Hui Lei, Nicholas Fuller
  Middleware 2013
• CloudScale: Elastic Resource Scaling for Multi-Tenant Cloud Systems
  Zhiming Shen, Sethuraman Subbiah, Xiaohui Gu, John Wilkes
  SOCC 2011

Other Papers:

Identifying Resources for Cloud Garbage Collection
Zhiming Shen, Christopher Young, Sai Zeng, Karin Murthy, Kun Bai
CNSM 2016

Smart Spot Instances for the Supercloud
Qin Jia, Zhiming Shen, Weijia Song, Robbert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon
CrossCloud 2016

Supercloud: Opportunities and Challenges
Qin Jia, Zhiming Shen, Weijia Song, Robbert van Renesse, Hakim Weatherspoon
ACM OSR, Volume 49 Issue 1, Jan. 2015

AGILE: elastic distributed resource scaling for Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Hiep Nguyen, Zhiming Shen, Xiaohui Gu, Sethuraman Subbiah, John Wilkes
ICAC 2013

Accelerating Batch Analytics with Residual Resources from Interactive Clouds
R. Benjamin Clay, Zhiming Shen, Xiaosong Ma
MASCOTS 2013

FChain: Toward Black-box Online Fault Localization for Cloud Systems
Hiep Nguyen, Zhiming Shen, Yongmin Tan, Xiaohui Gu
ICDCS 2013

PREPARE: Predictive Performance Anomaly Prevention for Virtualized Cloud Systems
Yongmin Tan, Hiep Nguyen, Zhiming Shen, Xiaohui Gu, Chitra Venkatramani, Deepak Rajan
ICDCS 2012 Best Paper Award

Jump-start Cloud: Efficient Deployment Framework for Large-Scale Cloud Applications
Xiaoxin Wu, Zhiming Shen, Ryan Wu, Yunfeng Lin
ICDCIT 2011

• Enterprise Cloud Garbage Collector
  Zhiming Shen, Christopher C Young, Sai Zeng, Karin Murthy
  US Patent Application No.: 15/006,571. Jan. 2016.
• Virtual Machine Image Access De-duplication
  Zhiming Shen, Zhe Zhang, Han Chen, Alexei A. Karve, Minkyong Kim, Andrzej P. Kochut, Hui Lei, Jayaram Kallapalayam Radhakrishnan
  US Patent No.: 8,897,573. Nov. 2014.

• Economics of a Supercloud
  Ian Kash, Qin Jia, Zhiming Shen, Weijia Song, Robbert van Renesse and Hakim Weatherspoon
  CrossCloud 2016 Poster Session
• The Supercloud: Challenges, Current Status, and Open Questions
  Zhiming Shen, Qin Jia, Weijia Song, Hakim Weatherspoon, Robbert van Renesse
  OSDI 2014 Poster Session
• Building and Scaling Virtual Clusters with Residual Resources from Interactive Clouds
  R. Benjamin Clay, Zhiming Shen, Xiaosong Ma
  HPDC 2013 Poster Session
• CloudScale: Elastic Resource Scaling for Multi-Tenant Cloud Systems
  Zhiming Shen, Sethuraman Subbiah, Xiaohui Gu, John Wilkes
  SOCC 2011 Poster Session
• Augmenting MapReduce with Active Volunteer Resources
  R. Benjamin Clay, Zhiming Shen, Xiaosong Ma, Xiaohui Gu
  SOSP 2011 Poster Session

• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center: 2015.
• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center: 2012.
• Intel Labs China: 2009~2010.
• Microsoft Research Asia: 2008~2009.