This is a legacy profile, last updated in October 2018.

Jinglei Ren 任晶磊 Email: jinglei@persper.org Researcher Cloud & Mobile Research Group Microsoft Research Address: Building 2, No. 5 Dan Ling Street Beijing 100080, China

	Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University Advisor: Prof. Weimin Zheng, Prof. Yongwei Wu	Sep. 2010 – Jan. 2016
	Visiting Student Researcher, Distributed Systems Group, Stanford University Supervisor: Prof. David Cheriton, Dr. Heiner Litz	Oct. 2014 – Aug. 2015 (10 months)
	Visiting Scholar, Computer Architecture Lab, Carnegie Mellon University Supervisor: Prof. Onur Mutlu	Nov. 2013 – May 2014 (6 months)
	B. Eng., School of Software, Northeast Normal University GPA: 3.9/4	Sep. 2006 – Jul. 2010

	Research Intern, System Algorithms Group, Microsoft Research Asia Mentor: Dr. Thomas Moscibroda, Dr. Mike Liang	Nov. 2012 – Sep. 2013 (10 months)
	R & D Intern, DaoliCloud Ltd, a Beijing-based startup Mentor: Dr. Wenbo Mao, CEO (former Chief Scientist of EMC Research China)	Mar. 2011 - Dec. 2011 (10 months)

• Sihang Liu, Aasheesh Kolli, Jinglei Ren, and Samira Khan.
  Crash Consistency in Encrypted Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems,
  Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb. 2018.
  {Authorship note: I contributed to conceptualization of the counter-atomicity and helped with paper revision.}
• Jinglei Ren, Qingda Hu, Samira Khan, and Thomas Moscibroda.
  Programming for Non-Volatile Main Memory Is Hard,
  Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys), Sep. 2017.
  {Authorship note: We organized a NVM programming workshop to perform the field study. Qingda helped with coding. Samira and Thomas helped with paper revision.}
• Qingda Hu, Jinglei Ren, Anirudh Badam, and Thomas Moscibroda.
  Log-Structured Non-Volatile Main Memory,
  Proceedings of the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), Jul. 2017.
  [Slides (.pptx, with animations)][BibTex]
  {Authorship note: Qingda and I designed the system and drafted the paper. Qingda implemented most code. Anirudh and Thomas helped with paper revision.}
• Mengxing Liu, Mingxing Zhang, Kang Chen, Xuehai Qian, Yongwei Wu, and Jinglei Ren.
  DudeTM: Building Durable Transactions with Decoupling for Persistent Memory,
  Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Apr. 2017.
  [BibTex]
  {Authorship note: I identified the problem, created the idea with Mingxing, and designed hardware-based paging; I lead the camera-ready round of experiment and paper revision.}
• Srinath Setty, Chunzhi Su, Jacob R. Lorch, Lidong Zhou, Hao Chen, Parveen Patel, and Jinglei Ren.
  Realizing the Fault-Tolerance Promise of Cloud Storage Using Locks with Intent,
  Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Nov. 2016.
  {Authorship note: I designed the distributed atomic affinity logging (DAAL) protocol in the case that only row-level atomicity is provided, and implemented it on Amazon DynamoDB; I also offered insights in identifying the essence of "intent" and shaping the flow of the paper.}
• Jinglei Ren, Jishen Zhao, Samira Khan, Jongmoo Choi, Yongwei Wu, and Onur Mutlu.
  ThyNVM: Enabling Software-Transparent Crash Consistency in Persistent Memory Systems,
  Proceedings of the 48th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Dec. 2015.
  [Project (source code, documents, etc.)] [Slides (.pptx, with animations demonstrating key mechanisms)] [BibTex]
  {Authorship note: I created the idea, designed the schemes, and implemented the system. Jishen, Samira and Onur helped a lot with paper writing.}
• Jinglei Ren, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Yongwei Wu, and Thomas Moscibroda.
  Memory-Centric Data Storage for Mobile Systems,
  Proceedings of the 2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), Jul. 2015.
  {Authorship note: I created the idea, designed and implemented the system. Mike and Thomas helped a lot with policy design and paper revision.}
• Mingxing Zhang, Yongwei Wu, Shan Lu, Shanxiang Qi, Jinglei Ren, and Weimin Zheng.
  AI: A Lightweight System for Tolerating Concurrency Bugs,
  Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Nov. 2014.
  ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award!
  {Authorship note: I took part in discussion and helped with paper revision.}
• Jinglei Ren, Yongwei Wu, Meiqi Zhu, and Weimin Zheng.
  Quatrain: Accelerating Data Aggregation Between Multiple Layers,
  IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 63, No. 5, pp. 1207 - 1219, May 2014.
  {Authorship note: I created the idea, designed and implemented the system. Meiqi developed an application.}
• Yongwei Wu, Weichao Guo, Jinglei Ren, Xun Zhao, and Weiming Zheng.
  NO2: Speeding Up Parallel Processing of Massive Compute-Intensive Tasks,
  IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 63, No. 10, pp. 2487 - 2499, Oct. 2014.
  {Authorship note: I created the idea and helped with paper writing. Weichao drafted the paper.}
• Jinglei Ren, Bo Wang, Weichao Guo, Yongwei Wu, and Weimin Zheng.
  Rebasable File Systems for Enhanced Management of Virtual Machines.
  Presented in the Poster Section of OSDI ’12.
  {Authorship note: I created the idea, designed and implemented a prototype with help from Bo and Weichao.}
• Xiaojuan Zheng, Jinglei Ren, and Yonglong Wei.
  Object-Oriented Design and Implementation of an Interpreter (C++),
  Tsinghua University Press, 2009.
  {Authorship note: I developed the example interpreter and wrote related chapters.}

• Program Committee Member for: APSys '17.
• Reviewer for: ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).
• Subreviewer for: SOSP '17, ICS '17, ISCA '17, PLDI '17, OSDI '16, EuroSys '15, PACT '14, HPDC '13.

• Zhong Shimo Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2015
  (Awarded at the 33rd Tsinghua DCST Student Festival, of which I really like the nine posters!)
• VMware PhD Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2015
• Best Poster Award, Carnegie Mellon Industry-Academia Partnership Workshop, 2014
• Award of Excellence, Microsoft Research Asia Internship Program, 2013
• National Scholarship, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Top-Five Project, Software Design Competition, Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008, China
• Bronze Medal, The ACM-ICPC Asia Programming Contest, Chengdu Site 2008
• First Award, The Jilin Provincial Collegiate Programming Contest, 2008

• Taekyung Heo, PhD@KAIST. Spring 2018.
• Taehoon Kim, PhD@KAIST. Fall 2017.
• Minghua Deng, undergrad@Sun Yat-sen University. Fall 2017.
• Lan Bai, Master's@UWisc-Madison. Summer 2017.
• Mengxing Liu, PhD@Tsinghua. Fall 2016.
• Chang Hyun Park, PhD@KAIST. Summer 2016.
• Qingda Hu, PhD@Tsinghua. Spring 2016.