Kang Chen
Professor
Builds ubiquitous and embodied-AI operating systems and system software.
Kang Chen's lab at Peking works on distributed, cloud & edge systems and interfaces & interaction techniques. 30 papers since 2023, 5 at top venues, mostly ASPLOS and SOSP. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 17%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 9 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 0
- 6 papers2024 · T1 0
- 6 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ASPLOS, SOSP, EuroSys
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Distributed, cloud & edge systems5 papers
- Interfaces & interaction techniques0 papers
- embodied-ai0 papers
- system software0 papers
- operating systems0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20269 papers
- Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data) ConferenceAccelerating Stream Processing Engines via Hardware Offloading
- Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data) Conferenceand a Bunch of Bugs: Catching Logic Bugs in Distributed DBMSs via Differential Testing
- Formal Verification of a Memory Allocator for Rust Hypervisors: From Verified to Deployable Code with Functional Equivalence Guarantees, Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD2026), Sep. 14 - 18, Graz, AustriaCao Donggang and Yongwang Zhao
- SIGCOMM2026Forewarned is Forearmed: A Responsive Congestion Control with Non-intrusive Uplink Dynamics Capture
- European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys ). ACMiRoute: Local Routing Table-based Workflow Management in Serverless Computing
- European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys ). ACMSKernel: An Elastic and Efficient Secure Container System at Scale with a Split-Kernel Architecture
- Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ), , Jay Lepreau Best Paper AwardTeaching The Old Dog New Tricks: Building Efficient Data Pipelines for Large-Scale LLM Pre-training
- ACM SIGOPS Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP ’26), September 29-October 2, , Prague, CzechiaTurning Linux into a High-Performance Library OS with Flux
- IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)μShare: Non-Intrusive Kernel Co-Locating on NVIDIA GPUs
20259 papers
- European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys ). ACMAlloyStack: A Library Operating System for Serverless Workflow Applications
- Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI )Fork in the Road: Reflections and Optimizations for Cold Start Latency in Production Serverless Systems
- Proceedings of Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP2025). October 13 - 16Mantle: Efficient Hierarchical Metadata Management for Cloud Object Storage Services
- —MigGPT: Harnessing Large Language Models for Automated Migration of Out-of-Tree Linux Kernel Patches Across Versions
- —OOCC: One-round Optimistic Concurrency Control for Read-Only Disaggregated Transactions
- Proceedings of the Annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication (SIGCOMM2025), September 8-11Pegasus: A Universal Framework for Scalable Deep Learning Inference on the Dataplane[C]
- —Scaling Asynchronous Graph Query Processing via Partitioned Stateful Traversal Machines
- Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI )Scalio: Scaling up DPU-based JBOF Key-value Store with NVME-oF Target Offload
- Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data) Conference (SIGMOD '25), June , Article 82Tribase: A Vector Data Query Engine for Reliable and Lossless Pruning Compression Using Triangle Inequalities
20246 papers
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB )Improving graph compression for efficient resource-constrained graph analytics
- European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys ). ACMNoctua: Towards practical and automated fine-grained consistency analysis
- Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems(ASPLOS )Scaling up memory disaggregated applications with SMART
- Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP )Skyloft: A general high-efficiency scheduling framework in user space
- Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP )TrEnv: Transparently share serverless execution environments across different functions and nodes
- Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems(ASPLOS )VertexSurge: Variable Length Graph Pattern Match on Billion-edge Graphs
20236 papers
- ASPLOS (T1)Achieving sub-second pairwise query over evolving graphs
- —Explore data placement algorithm for balanced recovery load distribution
- SOSP (T1)Falcon: Fast OLTP engine for persistent cache and non-volatile memory
- ASPLOS (T1)Noswalker: A decoupled architecture for out-of-core random walk processing
- SOSP (T1)Partial failure resilient memory management system for (CXL-based) distributed shared memory
- EuroSys (T1)TEA: a general-purpose temporal graph random walk engine
Where alumni went
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Apply to PekingFall 2027
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