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Miao Cai (蔡淼)

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Associate Professor
College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
No. 29 Jiangjun Road,
Nanjing, China
E-mail: miaocai@nuaa.edu.cn

About me

I received my Ph.D. degree from Nanjing University. I am currently an associate professor in the College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. My research interests mainly include memory system, storage system, and operating system. Particularly, my research works spans from efficient architecture and systems for Non-Volatile Memory (NVM), next-generation storage systems with resource disaggregation, and storage supports for Large-Language Model.

Research

My research interests include:

  • Memory System

  • Storage System

  • Operating System

Recent publications

  1. Miao Cai, Junru Shen, Yifan Yuan, Zhihao Qu, Baoliu Ye. "Scaling Persistent In-memory Key-Value Stores over Modern Tiered, Heterogeneous Memory Hierarchies", IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 495-509, 2025. [CCF-A]

  2. Miao Cai, Junru Shen, Baoliu Ye. "Ethane: An Asymmetric File System for Disaggregated Persistent Memory", 2024 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC'24), pp. 191-207, SANTA CLARA, CA, USA, July 10-12, 2024. [CCF-A]

  3. Miao Cai, Junru Shen, Yifan Yuan, Zhihao Qu, Baoliu Ye. "BonsaiKV: Towards Fast, Scalable, and Persistent Key-Value Stores with Tiered, Heterogeneous Memory System", Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 726-739, 2023. [CCF-A]

  4. Miao Cai, Xuzhen Jiang, Junru Shen, Baoliu Ye. "SplitDB: Closing the Performance Gap for LSM-tree-based Key-Value Stores", IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 206-220, 2024. [CCF-A]

  5. Miao Cai, Junru Shen, Bin Tang, Hao Huang, Baoliu Ye. "Exploiting Flat Namespace to Improve File System Metadata Performance on Ultra-fast, Byte-addressable NVMs", ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 1-47, 2024 [CCF-A]

  6. Miao Cai, Junru Shen, Bin Tang, Hao Huang, Baoliu Ye. "FlatFS: Flatten Hierarchical File System Namespace on Non-volatile Memories", 2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC'22), pp. 899-914, CARLSBAD, CA, USA. July 11-13, 2022. [CCF-A]

  7. Miao Cai, Chance Coats, Jian Huang. "Hoop: Efficient Hardware-Assisted Out-of-Place Update for Non-Volatile Memory", 47th ACM/IEEE Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'20), pp. 584-596, Valencia, Spain, May 30-June 3, 2020. [CCF-A]

  8. Miao Cai, Junru Shen, Tianning Zhang, Hao Huang, Baoliu Ye. "SigGuard: Hardening Vulnerable Signal Handling in Commodity Operating Systems", 41st International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'22), pp. 237-249, Vienna, Austria, September 19-22, 2022. [CCF-B]

  9. Miao Cai, Diming Zhang, Hao Huang. "A Scalable Virtual Memory System based on Decentralization for Many-cores", Journal of Systems Architecture, vol.107, pp. 101803 2020. [CCF-B]

  10. Miao Cai, Hao Huang, "A Survey of Operating System Support for Persistent Memory", Frontiers of Computer Science, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 1-20, 2021. [CCF-B]

  11. Miao Cai, Shenming Liu, Weiyong Yang, Hao Huang, "MedusaVM: Decentralizing Virtual Memory System for Multithreaded Applications on Many-core", 18th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP'18), pp. 267-283, Guangzhou, China, November 15-17, 2018. [CCF-C]

  12. Miao Cai, Shenming Liu, Hao Huang, "tScale: A Contention-Aware Multithreaded Framework for Multicore Multiprocessor Systems", 23rd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'17), pp. 334-343, Shenzhen, China, December 15-17, 2017. [CCF-C]

  13. Miao Cai, Hao Huang, Jian Huang. "Understanding Security Vulnerabilities in File Systems", Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys'19), pp. 8-15, Hangzhou, China, Augsut 19-20, 2019.

  14. Yuanyuan Song, *Miao Cai, Baoliu Ye, Guo Cheng. "SLIN: A CPU-efficient, Hybrid Tree and Learned Index for String Data" The 8th International Conference on Computing and Data Analysis (ICCDA'24), pp. 52-58, Wenzhou China, November 15-17, 2024.

  15. Wenxuan Zhou, Zhihao Qu, Shen-Huan Lyu, Miao Cai, Baoliu Ye. "Mask-Encoded Sparsification: Mitigating Biased Gradients in Communication-Efficient Split Learning" 27TH European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'24), pp. 2806--2813, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, October 19-24, 2024. [CCF-B]

  16. Lin Qian, Zhihao Qu, Miao Cai, Baoliu Ye, Xiaoliang Wang, Jianyu Wu, Weiguo Duan, Ming Zhao, Qiang Lin. "FastCache: A Write-Optimized Edge Storage System via Concurrent Merging Cache for IoT Applications" Journal of Systems Architecture, vol.131, pp. 102718, 2022. [CCF-B]

  17. Jincheng Lu, *Miao Cai, Baoliu Ye. "RSCache: A Tail Latency Friendly Cache Based on NVMe SSDs" 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA'24), pp. 1265-1272, Kaifeng, China, October 30 - November 02, 2024. [CCF-C] (corresponding author)

  18. Zhengyang Wei, Baoliu Ye, *Miao Cai. "CK-Index: A Distribution-Aware Learned Index for Composite Keys" 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA'24), pp. 1978-1804, Kaifeng, China, October 30 - November 02, 2024. [CCF-C] (corresponding author)

  19. Xuzhen Jiang, *Miao Cai, Baoliu Ye. "Improving Write Performance for LSM-tree-based Key-Value Stores with NV-Cache" 20th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA'22), pp. 394-401, Melbourne, Australia, December 17-19, 2022. [CCF-C] (corresponding author)

  20. Tianning Zhang, Miao Cai, Hao Huang., "eSROP Attack: Leveraging Signal Handler to Implement Turing-complete Attack under CFI Defense", 18th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm'22), pp. 752-769, Kansas City, United States, October 17-19, 2022. [CCF-C]

  21. Tianning Zhang, Miao Cai, Diming Zhang, Hao Huang., "SeBROP: Blind ROP Attacks without Returns", Frontiers of Computer Science, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1-18, 2022. [CCF-C]

  22. Tianning Zhang, Miao Cai, Diming Zhang, Hao Huang. "De-randomizing the Code Segment with Timing Function Attack", 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom'20), pp. 256-267, Guangzhou, China, December 29, 2020 - January 1, 2021. [CCF-C]

Work Experience

Associate Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 4/2024-now

Assistant Researcher, School of Computer and Information, Hohai University, 12/2020-03/2024

Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 06/2023-09/2023

Education

Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, 09/2016-12/2020

Visiting Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 08/2018-09/2019

M.S., Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, 09/2014-06/2016

B.Eng, School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, 09/2010-06/2014
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