Rong Gu(顾荣)
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南京大学 特聘研究员，博导教育部青年长江学者
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Short Biography
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. –Aristotle
I am currently a distinguished researcher in the School of Computer Science at Nanjing University. My research interests include Cloud and Big Data computing systems, Distributed AI Training and Inference System, Intelligent Data Management System, etc. I have published over 70 papers in EuroSys, USENIX ATC, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, WWW, INFOCOM, VLDBJ, IEEE TPDS, TKDE, TON, and published three monographs. I received the DAMO Academy Young Fellow Award, IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career), IEEE HPCC 2022 Best Paper Award, the first prize of Jiangsu Science and Technology Prize in 2018, Outstanding Alibaba Innovative Research Program Award in 2023, Tecent Cloud Valuable Professional (TVP) Award in 2021, the first place of the 30th SortBenchmark Competition CloudSort Track (Record Holder). My research results have been adopted by a number of well-known open source software such as Apache Spark, Alluxio, and leading IT/domain companies, including Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, ByteDance, Huatai Securities, Intel, Sinopec, Weibo and so on. I am the community chair of the Fluid open source project (CNCF Sandbox project), a founding PMC member & maintainer of Alluxio (formly Tachyon) open source project. I am also the co-program chair of IEEE iThings’22,IEEE SocialCom’23, the co-chair of 23rd ChinaSys, vice program chair of ICA3PP’25.
Bio in Chinese(中文简介): 顾荣，南京大学特聘研究员，博士生导师，教育部青年长江学者，达摩院青橙奖获奖者(2023)，担任Fluid开源社区主席(Linux基金会旗下CNCF官方项目)、ACM ChinaSys执行委员、中国计算机学会(CCF)分布式计算与系统专委常务委员/大数据专家委员会执行委员/系统软件专委执行委员/数据库专委执行委员（优秀执委）/开源发展委员会执行委员（优秀执委）/南京秘书长。
研究领域：主要领域为云计算与大数据系统、智能计算系统，目前关注大模型推理与训练系统、云原生计算系统、智能数据管理等方向，在相关研究领域共发表录用论文70余篇，包括一流国际学术期刊和会议EuroSys, USENIX ATC, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, WWW, INFOCOM, VLDBJ, IEEE TPDS, TON, TKDE等，出版学术专著3部，授权发明专利20项。
研究项目：主持国家自然科学基金面上项目（2项）/青年、国家重点研发计划子课题、中国博士后基金特别资助项目，以及华为/阿里/腾讯/蚂蚁集团/中国移动/中国石化等科技合作研发项目，研究成果落地于合作企业以及国际著名开源系统 Apache Spark、Alluxio等，并发起国际云原生计算基金会开源项目Fluid。
奖项荣誉：获得江苏省科学技术一等奖、阿里巴巴达摩院青橙奖（2023）、IEEE TCSC Early Career Award（2022, 年度全球5人）、CCF分布式计算与系统专委会青年创新先锋（年度全国2人）、IEEE HPCC会议最佳论文奖、CCF大数据学术会议最佳应用论文奖、阿里巴巴优秀学术合作项目奖、华为公司“难题揭榜”火花奖、腾讯云最具价值专家奖、中兴通讯产学研优秀合作项目奖、中国开源创新大赛一等奖、南京大学青年五四奖章、金陵青年学者、国际计算机排序基准评估比赛CloudSort赛道第1名、ACM南京分会学术新星奖、江苏省计算机学会青年科技奖/优秀科技工作者、CCF数据库专委会优秀执行委员、CCF开源发展委员会优秀执行委员、中国信通院OSCAR尖峰开源人物。
学生培养：指导/联合指导多位硕士和博士同学发表录用数据系统领域CCF A类和CCF B类国际学术会议期刊论文多篇，包括首篇南大硕士生一作SIGMOD论文、首篇南大独立单位SIGMOD论文。学生多人次获南京大学各类奖学金，学生团队次获得”挑战杯“、”互联网+“、CCF全国学会科技竞赛重要奖项，多人次入选Fluid开源项目committer以及入选开源编程夏令营(GLCC)。注重学生解决实际问题能力的提升，为同学提供或支持同学结合科研任务进入头部企业实习，硕士同学毕业后入职IT头部公司或大型央国企、证券银行单位聘用，联合指导博士生1名，毕业后被南京航空航天大学聘用（现为副教授）。
I am recruiting PhD, Master and Undergraduate students. If interested, please feel free to drop me an email.
本人招收研究生(博士生和硕士生)、本科实习生、博士后以及科研助理(长期开放)，对大模型推理与训练系统、云原生计算系统、智能数据管理方向感兴趣的同学，欢迎与我联系(gurong[at]casinolhj.com)。本团队科研经费稳定(服务器集群/GPU设备齐全、科研劳务补助充裕、提供校外住宿补贴、大厂实习机会丰富)，科研氛围轻松，欢迎联系加入！要求入组同学为人正直，沟通坦诚，并对本团队研究方向感兴趣、踏实勤奋、有一定自驱力和较好抗压能力。
Research
My research interests include
LLM Inference and Training System
Cloud Native Computing System
Intelligent Data Management
News
09/2025 Our paper “A Privacy-Preserving Auction for Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in UAV-Assisted MEC” is accepted by TMC (CCF-A)!
08/2025 获批国家自然科学基金面上项目1项（主题方向：智能化云上弹性缓存资源管理）
08/2025 获得中国移动“揭榜挂帅”科研项目1项（主题方向：基于AI的算力网络数据库优化）
08/2025 Our paper “Parallel Wormhole Filters: High-Performance Approximate Membership Query Data Structures for Persistent Memory” is accepted by TPDS (CCF-A)!
08/2025 Our paper “Gem: Scalable Monotonic Graph Processing Beyond Billion-Scale on a Single Machine” is accepted by SIGMOD 2026 (CCF-A)!
08/2025 I am hornored to join the Editorial Committee Member of Journal of Intelligent Computing and Networking!
06/2025 Congratulations on the graduation of all my 2022-year Master students Han Li, Xiaozheng Zhang, Qiming Chen, Wenjie Bao, Ruizhang Yang, Wenxiao Wang, and Linyi Song! (祝贺指导和联合指导的所有2022级硕士研究生（7位）均按时顺利毕业！)
05/2025 Our paper “HotPrefix: Hotness-Aware KV Cache Scheduling for Efficient Prefix Sharing in LLM Inference Systems” is accepted by SIGMOD 2026 (CCF-A)!，南大首篇独立单位完成的SIGMOD论文（亦南大首篇硕士一作SIGMOD论文），一作本人硕士生李宇航
05/2025 Our paper “Hourglass: An Adaptive Range Filter with Lightweight Hybrid Encoding” is accepted by SIGMOD 2026 (CCF-A)!，南大首篇硕士一作SIGMOD论文（同期另1篇一作亦本人硕士生），一作本人硕士生刘非凡
05/2025 I will served to as the TPC vice co-Chair of the 25th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2025), welcome to submit your work to ICA3PP 2025!
03/2025 Our paper “Local-to-cloud Database Synchronization via Fine-grained Hybrid Compression” is accepted by ICDE 2025 (CCF-A)!
12/2024 祝贺李宇航同学获得南京大学腾讯奖学金，陈启明、鲍文杰同学获得南京大学研究生英才奖学金，李宇航、陈启明、王问骁同学获得南京大学优秀研究生荣誉称号!
11/2024 与蚂蚁集团、小红书分别签订大模型相关主题科研合作项目各1项
11/2024 Our paper “VEGA: An Active-tuning Learned Index with Group-Wise Learning Granularity” is accepted by SIGMOD 2025 (CCF-A)!
08/2024 与中国移动签订大数据系统缓存相关主题科研合作项目1项
07/2024 Supervising students winning the first prize of the 2024 CCF Contest of Computility System and its Application！ (指导李宇航、刘非凡、王书麟同学获得2024 CCF 算力网系统与应用大赛一等奖)！
05/2024 入选 2023 年度教育部长江学者奖励计划（青年学者）!
05/2024 Our paper “ACER: Accelerating Complex Event Recognition via Two-Phase Filtering under Range Bitmap-Based Indexes” is accepted by KDD 2024 (CCF-A)!
05/2024 Our paper “Bamboo Filters: Make Resizing Smooth and Adaptive” is accepted by IEEE ToN 2024 (CCF-A)!
04/2024 Our paper “Fluid-Shuttle: Efficient Cloud Data Transmission based on Serverless Computing Compression” is accepted by IEEE ToN 2024 (CCF-A)!
03/2024 I received the ZTE Communications Industry-University-Research Excellent Collaboration Project Award (8/104)!(获得2023年度中兴通讯产学研优秀合作项目奖(8/104)！)
03/2024 Our paper “A Generic Framework for Finding Special Quadratic Elements in Data Streams” is accepted by IEEE ToN 2024 (CCF-A)!
01/2024 Our paper “A Survey of Multi-dimensional Indexes: Past and Future Trends” is accepted by IEEE TKDE 2024 (CCF-A)!
12/2023 祝贺李翰、吴侗雨同学获得南京大学白鹭奖学金，王问骁同学获得南京大学小米奖学金，李翰、鲍文杰、王问骁同学获得南京大学优秀研究生荣誉称号!
12/2023 I received “2023 DAMO Academy Young Fellow Award” (获得2023年度达摩院青橙奖)!
11/2023 Our paper “The Reinforcement Cuckoo Filter” is accepted by INFOCOM 2024 (CCF-A)!
10/2023 Supervising students winning the first prize of the 18th National College Students’ Academic Challenge Cup！ (指导鲍文杰、陈启明、王问骁等同学获得第十八届“挑战杯”全国大学生课外学术科技作品竞赛主体赛全国一等奖)！
09/2023 Our paper “Wormhole Filters: Caching Your Hash on Persistent Memory” is accepted by EuroSys 2024 (CCF-A)!
08/2023 Our paper “High-level Data Abstraction and Elastic Data Caching for Data-intensive AI Applications on Cloud-native Platforms” is accepted by IEEE TPDS (CCF-A)!
08/2023 Our paper “ShadowAQP: Efficient Approximate Group-by and Join Query via Attribute-oriented Sample Size Allocation and Data Generation” is accepted by VLDB 2023 (CCF-A)!
07/2023 I received the Young Innovation Pioneer Award of China Computer Federation Technical Committee on Distributed Computing and Systems! (获得2023年度中国计算机学会分布式计算与系统专委会青年创新先锋！)
06/2023 Congratulations on the graduation of all my 2020-year Master students Zhong Weichang, Chen Guowang, Chen Yi, and Chen Yuquan! (祝贺指导的所有2020级硕士研究生钟伟畅、陈国旺、陈义、陈雨铨均按时顺利毕业！)
06/2023 We win Huawei Spark Award for Challenging Problems！(获得华为公司“难题揭榜”火花奖, 领域难题：PB级数据实时计算引擎)！
05/2023 Fluid Open Source Project winning the first prize of the China Open Source Innovation Competition！(Fluid开源项目荣获2022年中国开源创新大赛一等奖)！
04/2023 Our paper “Adaptive Online Cache Capacity Optimization via Lightweight Working Set Size Estimation at Scale” is accepted by USENIX ATC (CCF-A)!
04/2023 Our paper “Seesaw Counting Filter: A Dynamic Filtering Framework for Vulnerable Negative Keys” is accepted by TKDE (CCF-A)!
04/2023 I received “2023 Outstanding Alibaba Innovative Research Program Award” (获得阿里巴巴优秀学术合作项目奖)!
12/2022 Our paper “Efficient, Scalable and Robust Data Shuffle Service for Distributed MapReduce Computing on Cloud” received the Best Paper Award of the 24th IEEE HPCC!
12/2022 I received “IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researcher)” (获得 IEEE 可扩展计算委员会优秀青年学者奖)!
12/2022 Our paper “Time and Cost-Efficient Cloud Data Transmission based on Serverless Computing Compression” is accepted by INFOCOM 2023 (CCF-A)!
11/2022 Supervising students winning the silver prize of the 8th China International College Students’ 'Internet+’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition！ (指导吴侗雨、李猛、王书麟等同学获得第八届中国国际“互联网+”大学生创新创业大赛全国银奖、江苏赛一等奖)！
11/2022 Serving as the co-chair of the 23rd ChinaSys Workshop, welecom to submit your papers！(担任第23届中国计算机系统研讨会大会联合主席,欢迎投稿！)
05/2022 I received May 4th Youth Medal in Nanjing University (南京大学青年五四奖章) in 2022 !
04/2022 Our paper “Meces: Latency-efficient Rescaling via Prioritized State Migration for Stateful Distributed Stream Processing Systems” is accepted by USENIX ATC 2022 (CCF-A)!
02/2022 Our paper “Fluid: Dataset Abstraction and Elastic Acceleration for Cloud-native Deep Learning Training Jobs” is accepted by IEEE ICDE 2022 (CCF-A)!
Selected Recent Publications
[SIGMOD'26]HotPrefix: Hotness-Aware KV Cache Scheduling for Efficient Prefix Sharing in LLM Inference Systems. (SIGMOD, CCF-A), 2026.
[SIGMOD'26]Hourglass: An Adaptive Range Filter with Lightweight Hybrid Encoding. (SIGMOD, CCF-A), 2026.
[VLDB'23]ShadowAQP: Efficient Approximate Group-by and Join Query via Attribute-oriented Sample Size Allocation and Data Generation. (VLDB, CCF-A), 2023.
[ATC'23]Adaptive Online Cache Capacity Optimization via Lightweight Working Set Size Estimation at Scale. (USENIX ATC, CCF-A), 2023.
[EuroSys'24]Wormhole Filters: Caching Your Hash on Persistent Memory. (EuroSys, CCF-A), 2024.
[SIGMOD'26]Gem: Scalable Monotonic Graph Processing Beyond Billion-Scale on a Single Machine. (SIGMOD, CCF-A), 2026.
[SIGMOD'25]VEGA: An Active-tuning Learned Index with Group-Wise Learning Granularity. (SIGMOD, CCF-A), 2025.
[ICDE'25]Local-to-cloud Database Synchronization via Fine-grained Hybrid Compression. (ICDE, CCF-A), 2025.
[KDD'24]ACER: Accelerating Complex Event Recognition via Two-Phase Filtering under Range Bitmap-Based Indexes. (KDD, CCF-A), 2024.
[TPDS'23]High-level Data Abstraction and Elastic Data Caching for Data-intensive AI Applications on Cloud-native Platforms. (IEEE TPDS, CCF-A), 2023.
[TPDS'26]Parallel Wormhole Filters: High-Performance Approximate Membership Query Data Structures for Persistent Memory. (IEEE TPDS, CCF-A), 2026.
[TKDE'23]Seesaw Counting Filter: A Dynamic Filtering Framework for Vulnerable Negative Keys. (IEEE TKDE, CCF-A), 2023.
[ToN'24]Fluid-Shuttle: Efficient Cloud Data Transmission based on Serverless Computing Compression. (ACM/IEEE ToN, CCF-A), 2024.
[INFOCOM'24]The Reinforcement Cuckoo Filter. (IEEE INFOCOM, CCF-A), to appear, 2024.
[INFOCOM'23]Time and Cost-Efficient Cloud Data Transmission based on Serverless Computing Compression. (IEEE INFOCOM, CCF-A), 2023.
[ATC'22]Meces: Latency-efficient Rescaling via Prioritized State Migration for Stateful Distributed Stream Processing Systems. (USENIX ATC, CCF-A), 2022.
[ICDE'22]Fluid: Dataset Abstraction and Elastic Acceleration for Cloud-native Deep Learning Training Jobs. (IEEE ICDE, CCF-A), 2022.
[TPDS'22]Liquid: Intelligent Resource Estimation and Network-Efficient Scheduling for Deep Learning Jobs on Distributed GPU Clusters. (IEEE TPDS, CCF-A), 2022.
[ICDE'22]Bamboo Filters: Make Resizing Smooth. (IEEE ICDE, CCF-A), pp. 979-991, 2022.
[HPCC'22, Best Paper Award]Efficient, Scalable and Robust Data Shuffle Service for Distributed MapReduce Computing on Cloud. (IEEE HPCC, CCF-C), 2022.
[VLDBJ'22]A Pareto Optimal Bloom Filter Family with Hash Adaptivity (VLDB Journal, CCF-A), 2022.
[WWW'22]Seesaw Counting Filter: An Efficient Guardian for Vulnerable Negative Keys During Dynamic Filtering (WWW, CCF-A), 2022.
[TPDS'18]Penguin: Efficient Query-based Framework for Replaying Large Scale Historical Data. (IEEE TPDS, CCF-A), 2018.
[TPDS'17]Improving Execution Concurrency of Large-Scale Matrix Multiplication on Distributed Data-Parallel Platforms. (IEEE TPDS, CCF-A), 2017.
[ToN'23]SAFE: Service Availability via Failure Elimination Through VNF Scaling. (ACM/IEEE ToN, CCF-A), 2023.
[ToN'24]A Generic Framework for Finding Special Quadratic Elements in Data Streams. (ACM/IEEE ToN, CCF-A), 2024.
[ToN'24]Bamboo Filters: Make Resizing Smooth (Journal Version). (ACM/IEEE ToN, CCF-A), 2024.
[TKDE'24]A Survey of Multi-dimensional Indexes: Past and Future Trends. (IEEE TKDE, CCF-A), 2024.
[ICDE'21]Hash Adaptive Bloom Filter. (IEEE ICDE, CCF-A), 2021.
[ICDE'19]BENU: Distributed Subgraph Enumeration With Backtracking-based Framework. (IEEE ICDE, CCF-A), 2019.
[TPDS'21]Towards Efficient Large-scale Interprocedural Program Static Analysis on Distributed Data-Parallel Computation. (IEEE TPDS, CCF-A), 2021.
[TPDS'21]Towards Efficient Distributed SubgraphEnumeration via Backtracking-based Framework. (IEEE TPDS, CCF-A), 2021.
[TPDS'19]Efficient and Scalable Functional Dependency Discovery on Distributed Data-Parallel Platforms. (IEEE TPDS, CCF-A), 2019.
[TMC'25]A Privacy-Preserving Auction for Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in UAV-Assisted MEC. (IEEE TMC, CCF-A), 2025.
[TMC'24]Joint Deployment of Truck-drone Systems for Camera-based Object Monitoring. (IEEE TMC, CCF-A), 2024.
[TMC'23]Placing Wireless Chargers with Multiple Antenna. (IEEE TMC, CCF-A), 2023.
[TMC'22]Placing Wireless Chargers with Limited Mobility. (IEEE TMC, CCF-A), 2022.