NVMTFS: A Non-Volatile Memory Adaptive File System for Tiered Storage System. - Shiyong Liu; Zhichao Cao 002; Zhongwen Guo; Guohua Wang; Xupeng Wang 003; Zhijin Qiu; Xukun Qin (BigCom, 2018)

ALACC: Accelerating Restore Performance of Data Deduplication Systems Using Adaptive Look-Ahead Window Assisted Chunk Caching. - Zhichao Cao 002; Hao Wen 001; Fenggang Wu; David H. C. Du (FAST, 2018)

Data Management Design for Interlaced Magnetic Recording. - Fenggang Wu; Baoquan Zhang; Zhichao Cao 002; Hao Wen 001; Bingzhe Li; Jim Diehl; Guohua Wang; David H. C. Du (HotStorage, 2018)

JoiNS: Meeting Latency SLO with Integrated Control for Networked Storage. - Hao Wen 001; Zhichao Cao 002; Yang Zhang; Xiang Cao; Ziqi Fan; Doug Voigt; David H. C. Du (MASCOTS, 2018)

Sliding Look-Back Window Assisted Data Chunk Rewriting for Improving Deduplication Restore Performance. - Zhichao Cao 002; Shiyong Liu; Fenggang Wu; Guohua Wang; Bingzhe Li; David H. C. Du (FAST, 2019)

ZoneAlloy: Elastic Data and Space Management for Hybrid SMR Drives. - Fenggang Wu; Bingzhe Li; Zhichao Cao 002; Baoquan Zhang; Ming-Hong Yang; Hao Wen 001; David H. C. Du (HotStorage, 2019)

TDDFS: A Tier-Aware Data Deduplication-Based File System. - Zhichao Cao 002; Hao Wen 001; Xiongzi Ge; Jingwei Ma; Jim Diehl; David H. C. Du (ACM Trans. Storage, 2019)

Characterizing, Modeling, and Benchmarking RocksDB Key-Value Workloads at Facebook. - Zhichao Cao 002; Siying Dong; Sagar Vemuri; David H. C. Du (FAST, 2020)

Improving Performance of Flash Based Key-Value Stores Using Storage Class Memory as a Volatile Memory Extension. - Hiwot Tadese Kassa; Jason Akers; Mrinmoy Ghosh; Zhichao Cao 002; Vaibhav Gogte; Ronald G. Dreslinski (USENIX ATC, 2021)

TrackLace: Data Management for Interlaced Magnetic Recording. - Fenggang Wu; Bingzhe Li; Baoquan Zhang; Zhichao Cao 002; Jim Diehl; Hao Wen 001; David H. C. Du (IEEE Trans. Computers, 2021)

A Focused Garbage Collection Approach for Primary Deduplicated Storage with Low Memory Overhead. - Jingsong Yuan; Xiangyu Zou; Han Xu; Zhichao Cao 002; Shiyi Li; Wen Xia; Peng Wang; Li Chen (ICCD, 2022)

IS-HBase: An In-Storage Computing Optimized HBase with I/O Offloading and Self-Adaptive Caching in Compute-Storage Disaggregated Infrastructure. - Zhichao Cao 002; Huibing Dong; Yixun Wei; Shiyong Liu; David H. C. Du (ACM Trans. Storage, 2022)

HintStor: A Framework to Study I/O Hints in Heterogeneous Storage. - Xiongzi Ge; Zhichao Cao 002; David H. C. Du; Pradeep Ganesan; Dennis Hahn (ACM Trans. Storage, 2022)

Power-optimized Deployment of Key-value Stores Using Storage Class Memory. - Hiwot Tadese Kassa; Jason Akers; Mrinmoy Ghosh; Zhichao Cao 002; Vaibhav Gogte; Ronald G. Dreslinski (ACM Trans. Storage, 2022)

SMRTS: A Performance and Cost-Effectiveness Optimized SSD-SMR Tiered File System with Data Deduplication. - Zhichao Cao 002; Hao Wen 001; Fenggang Wu; David H. C. Du (ICCD, 2023)

K8sES: Optimizing Kubernetes with Enhanced Storage Service-Level Objectives. - Hao Wen 001; Zhichao Cao 002; Bingzhe Li; David H. C. Du; Ayman Abouelwafa; Doug Voigt; Shiyong Liu; Jim Diehl; Fenggang Wu (ICCD, 2023)

HyzoneStore: Hybrid Storage with Flexible Logical Interface and Optimized Cache for Zoned Devices. - Chongzhuo Yang; Baolin Feng; Zhang Cao 001; Zhichao Cao 002 (DSDE, 2024)

Can Modern LLMs Tune and Configure LSM-based Key-Value Stores? - Viraj Thakkar; Madhumitha Sukumar; Jiaxin Dai; Kaushiki Singh; Zhichao Cao 002 (HotStorage, 2024)

Can ZNS SSDs be Better Storage Devices for Persistent Cache? - Chongzhuo Yang; Zhang Cao 001; Chang Guo; Ming Zhao 002; Zhichao Cao 002 (HotStorage, 2024)

BIZA: Design of Self-Governing Block-Interface ZNS AFA for Endurance and Performance. - Shushu Yi; Shaocong Sun; Li Peng; Yingbo Sun; Ming-Chang Yang; Zhichao Cao 002; Qiao Li 001; Myoungsoo Jung; Ke Zhou 001; Jie Zhang 048 (SOSP, 2024)

A Zoned Storage Optimized Flash Cache on ZNS SSDs. - Chongzhuo Yang; Chang Guo; Ming Zhao 002; Zhichao Cao 002 (CoRR, 2024)

Harnessing Your DRAM and SSD for Sustainable and Accessible LLM Inference with Mixed-Precision and Multi-level Caching. - Jie Peng 002; Zhang Cao 001; Huaizhi Qu; Zhengyu Zhang; Chang Guo; Yanyong Zhang; Zhichao Cao 002; Tianlong Chen 001 (CoRR, 2024)

CaaS-LSM: Compaction-as-a-Service for LSM-based Key-Value Stores in Storage Disaggregated Infrastructure. - Qiaolin Yu; Chang Guo; Jay Zhuang; Viraj Thakkar; Jianguo Wang 001; Zhichao Cao 002 (Proc. ACM Manag. Data, 2024)

Unlocking the Unusable: A Proactive Caching Framework for Reusing Partial Overlapped Data. - Chang Guo; Norbert Podhorszki; Greg Eisenhauer; Zhiwen Xie; Scott Klasky; Zhichao Cao 002 (HotStorage, 2025)

Optimizing both performance and tail latency for B+tree on persistent memory. - Xianyu He; Chaoshu Yang; Runyu Zhang 002; Huizhang Luo; Zhichao Cao 002; Jeff Zhang 001 (J. Syst. Archit., 2025)

ELMo-Tune-V2: LLM-Assisted Full-Cycle Auto-Tuning to Optimize LSM-Based Key-Value Stores. - Viraj Thakkar; Qi Lin; Kenanya Keandra Adriel Prasetyo; Raden Haryosatyo Wisjnunandono; Achmad Imam Kistijantoro; Reza Fuad Rachmadi; Zhichao Cao 002 (CoRR, 2025)

CPI: A Collaborative Partial Indexing Design for Large-Scale Deduplication Systems. - Yixun Wei; Zhichao Cao 002; David H. C. Du (IEEE Trans. Computers, 2025)

SHIELD: Encrypting Persistent Data of LSM-KVS from Monolithic to Disaggregated Storage. - Viraj Thakkar; Dongha Kim; Yingchun Lai; Hokeun Kim; Zhichao Cao 002 (Proc. ACM Manag. Data, 2025)