I am a final-year Ph.D student at Syracuse University, supervised by Prof. Bryan S. Kim. Before I came here, I was a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, supervised by Prof. Christopher D. Gill. I served as an intern at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
I work on File and storage systems, Solid state drives, Operating systems, Green computing and sustainability. My research philosophy is to imbue minimal yet meaningful knowledge into various layers of the I/O stack, thereby enabling a more efficient, synergistic, and adaptive storage ecosystem.
If you're interested in my research or just want to chat, feel free to reach out (zjiao04@syr.edu). I'm always happy to connect.
News
- 05/2025 - I am honored to share that I have been selected for the All-University Doctoral Award.
- 04/2025 - Successfully defended my dissertation! Thank you professors for your valuable feedback and suggestions!
- 04/2025 - My dissertation defense is scheduled at April 07, 2025.
- 03/2025 - I will be joining FIU for a post-doc in August :-)
- 01/2025 - I will be serving as a SPC member for EuroSys'25.
- 12/2024 - The title of my dissertation is "TOWARDS THE NEXT GENERATION OF STORAGE STACK FOR NAND FLASH MEMORY-BASED SYSTEMS".
- 05/2024 - "Asymmetric RAID: Rethinking RAID for SSD Heterogeneity" is accepted to appear in HotStorage 2024.
- 01/2024 - "The Design and Implementation of a Capacity-Variant Storage System" is accepted to appear in FAST 2024.
Publications
[HotStorage] Asymmetric RAID: Rethinking RAID for SSD Heterogeneity
Ziyang Jiao and Bryan S. Kim.
The 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2024
[pdf][slides]
[FAST] The Design and Implementation of a Capacity-Variant Storage System
Ziyang Jiao, Xiangqun Zhang, Hojin Shin, Jongmoo Choi, and Bryan S. Kim.
The 22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies. (FAST), 2024
[pdf][slides][video][code][poster]
[HotStorage] Wear Leveling in SSDs Considered Harmful (Best Paper Award)
Ziyang Jiao, Janki Bhimani, and Bryan S. Kim.
The 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2022
[pdf][slides][code][award]
[HotStorage] Generating realistic wear distributions for SSDs
Ziyang Jiao and Bryan S. Kim.
The 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2022
[pdf][slides][code]
[FAST] The Fast-Forwardable SSD Aging Framework (WiP)
Ziyang Jiao and Bryan S. Kim.
The 20th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2022
[pdf][slides][video]
Services
- TCAD'25: Reviewer
- Eurosys'25: Shadow PC Member [certificate]
- FAST'24: Artifact Evaluation Committee Member
Teaching
- 2025 Spring @ SU: CIS 341 - Computer Organization & Programming Systems
- 2024 Fall @ SU: CIS 341 - Computer Organization & Programming Systems
- 2020 Spring @ WUSTL: CSE 417T - Introduction to Machine Learning
About Me
I love going to parks in my spare time. My favorite one is Death Valley. I also enjoy hiking through scenic trails and taking in the beauty of nature.