Junru Li

About Me

I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua Storage Research Group in 2024, advised by Professor Youyou Lu and Jiwu Shu, with guidance from Qing Wang. My main research interests include programmable network, RDMA, and transaction processing. Before that, I received my B.S. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2019.

Publications

Summary: FAST (3), 中文期刊 (2), TOS (2), SIGMOD (1), ICDE (1), HotStorage (1), USENIX ATC (1), VLDB (1), OSDI (1)

[SIGMOD'26] Beluga: A CXL-Based Memory Architecture for Scalable and Efficient LLM KVCache Management
Xinjun Yang, Qingda Hu*, Junru Li* (co-corresponding author), Feifei Li, Yuqi Zhou, Yicong Zhu, Qiuru Lin, Jian Dai, Yang Kong, Jiayu Zhang, Guoqiang Xu, Qiang Liu
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2026
[ICDE'26] Switch∆: Asynchronous Metadata Updating for Distributed Storage with In-Network Data Visibility
Junru Li, Qing Wang, Zhe Yang, Shuo Liu, Jiwu Shu, Youyou Lu
The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2026
[FAST'26] PolarStore: High-Performance Data Compression for Large-Scale Cloud-Native Databases
Qingda Hu, Xinjun Yang, Feifei Li, Junru Li* (corresponding author), Ya Lin, Yuqi Zhou, Yicong Zhu, Junwei Zhang, Rongbiao Xie, Ling Zhou, Bin Wu, Wenchao Zhou
The 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2026 (Deployed-systems paper)

[HotStorage'25] CableCache: In-Network Request Deduplication for Key-Value Stores
Jiawei Huang, Junru Li, Qing Wang, Lijie Wen, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu
The 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, 2025

[FAST'23] λ-IO: A Unified IO Stack for Computational Storage
Zhe Yang, Youyou Lu, Xiaojian Liao, Youmin Chen, Junru Li, Siyu He, Jiwu Shu
The 21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2023
在网存储系统研究综述: Survey on In-Network Storage Systems
汪庆, 李俊儒, 舒继武
计算机研究与发展, 2023
分离式数据中心的存储系统研究进展: Progress on Storage Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers
舒继武, 陈游旻, 汪庆, 王晶, 李俊儒, 廖晓坚
中国科学: 信息科学, 2023

[USENIX ATC'22] AlNiCo: SmartNIC-accelerated Contention-aware Request Scheduling for Transaction Processing
Junru Li, Youyou Lu, Qing Wang, Jiazhen Lin, Zhe Yang, Jiwu Shu
USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2022
[VLDB'22] SwitchTx: Scalable In-Network Coordination for Distributed Transaction Processing
Junru Li, Youyou Lu, Yiming Zhang, Qing Wang, Zhuo Cheng, Keji Huang, Jiwu Shu
The 48th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2022
[TOS] Nap: Persistent Memory Indexes for NUMA Architectures
Qing Wang, Youyou Lu, Junru Li, Minhui Xie, Jiwu Shu
ACM Transactions on Storage, 2022

[OSDI'21] Nap: A Black-Box Approach to NUMA-Aware Persistent Memory Indexes
Qing Wang, Youyou Lu, Junru Li, Jiwu Shu
The 15th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2021
[FAST'21] Concordia: Distributed Shared Memory with In-Network Cache Coherence
Qing Wang, Youyou Lu, Erci Xu, Junru Li, Youmin Chen, Jiwu Shu
The 19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2021

[TOS] TH-DPMS: Design and Implementation of an RDMA-enabled Distributed Persistent Memory Storage System
Jiwu Shu, Youmin Chen, Qing Wang, Bohong Zhu, Junru Li, Youyou Lu
ACM Transactions on Storage, 2020

Awards

2024, THU, Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate in Tsinghua CS Department
2019, THU, Future Scholar Scholarship (only 2 students from the CS department were awarded in 2019)
2019, HIT, Outstanding Graduate
2017, ACM-ICPC, Asia-East Continent Final Contest, Silver Medal
2017, HIT, National Scholarship