Weiwei Jia

Weiwei Jia is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering at The University of Rhode Island. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2021. His research interests lie in the areas of computer systems, including edge and cloud computing infrastructures, systems virtualization, operating systems, memory and storage systems, and systems architecture. He received the NSF CRII Award in 2024.

Weiwei Jia is looking for highly motivated students. Please contact him if you are interested in his research.

Selected Publications (Google Scholar and DBLP)

• Direct Memory Translation for Virtualized Clouds
  Jiyuan Zhang, Weiwei Jia, Siyuan Chai, Peizhe Liu, Jongyul Kim, Tianyin Xu
  Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '24)
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• Making Dynamic Page Coalescing Effective on Virtualized Clouds
  Weiwei Jia, Jiyuan Zhang, Jianchen Shan, Xiaoning Ding
  Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '23)
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• HugeGPT: Storing Guest Page Tables on Host Huge Pages to Accelerate Address Translation
  Weiwei Jia, Jiyuan Zhang, Jianchen Shan, Yiming Du, Xiaoning Ding, Tianyin Xu
  Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT '23)
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• Achieving Low Latency in Public Edges by Hiding Workloads Mutual Interference
  Weiwei Jia, Jiyuan Zhang, Jianchen Shan, Jing Li, Xiaoning Ding
  Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC '22)
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• IceClave: A Trusted Execution Environment for In-Storage Computing
  Luyi Kang*, Yuqi Xue*, Weiwei Jia*, Xiaohao Wang, Jongryool Kim, Changhwan Youn, Myeong Joon Kang, Jin Lim, Bruce Jacob, Jian Huang
  Proceedings of the 54th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO '21)
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• CoPlace: Effectively Mitigating Cache Conflicts in Modern Clouds
  Xiaowei Shang, Weiwei Jia, Jianchen Shan, Xiaoning Ding
  Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT '21)
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• vSMT-IO: Improving I/O Performance and Efficiency on SMT Processors in Virtualized Clouds
  Weiwei Jia, Jianchen Shan, Tsz On Li, Xiaowei Shang, Heming Cui, Xiaoning Ding
  Proceedings of the 2020 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '20)
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• Effectively Mitigating I/O Inactivity in vCPU Scheduling
  Weiwei Jia, Cheng Wang, Xusheng Chen, Jianchen Shan, Xiaowei Shang, Heming Cui, Xiaoning Ding, Luwei Cheng, Francis CM Lau, Yuexuan Wang, Yuangang Wang
  Proceedings of the 2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '18)
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• PLOVER: Fast, Multi-core Scalable Virtual Machine Fault-tolerance
  Cheng Wang*, Xusheng Chen*, Weiwei Jia, Haoran Qiu, Boxuan Li, Shixiong Zhao, Heming Cui
  Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (USENIX NSDI '18)
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Teaching

• ELE 594: Special Topics in Computer Systems for Modern Clouds
• ELE 469/569: Computer Systems for Modern Cloud Computing
• ELE 408: Embedded System Design

Professional Activities

• Organizing Services: IEEE ICDCS (2024), ACSIC SOFC (2023)
• Committee Services: EuroSys Shadow PC (2023, 2021, 2019), OSDI Artifact Evaluation (2021), ASPLOS Artifact Evaluation (2022, 2021), EuroSys Artifact Evaluation (2021), Cloud Computing PC (2020)
• Reviewing Services: ACM ICS, ACM APSys, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TCC, IEEE TC, IEEE ICDE, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE Access, IEEE/IFIP DSN, IEEE HPCA, IEEE MASS, IEEE BigData, IEEE Cloud Summit, IEEE Internet Computing