Haoru Zhao

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I am Haoru Zhao (赵浩如), currently a first-year PhD student at the IPADS Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), under the supervision of Prof. Mingkai Dong and Prof. Haibo Chen.

My research focuses on computer storage systems, with a particular emphasis on storage optimizations for Large Model training and inference, as well as index optimization.

If you are interested in my work or would like to have further discussions, please feel free to contact me via email. You can also find more updates on my GitHub.

educations

2026.04 - 2030.03 (expected) PhD student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2024.09 - 2026.03 Master’s student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2020.09 - 2024.06 Undergraduate at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Major: Software Engineering

experiences

2024.05 - 2025.08 Research Intern at Alibaba Cloud, EBS Team
2023.07 - 2023.09 Software Engineer Intern at Alibaba Cloud, Cloud Native Team

publications

  1. OSDI 26
    Disentangling Graph Dependencies for Efficient Billion-Scale GPU Vector Search with FlowANN
    Haoru Zhao*, Jingkai He*, Jingyao Zeng, Mingkai Dong, and Dong Du
    In 20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 26), Seattle, WA, USA, Jul 2026
  2. FAST 26
    "Range as a Key" is the Key! Fast and Compact Cloud Block Store Index with RASK
    Haoru Zhao, Mingkai Dong, Erci Xu, Zhongyu Wang, and Haibo Chen
    In 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 26), Feb 2026
  3. VLDB 26
    SIDLE: Tree-structure Aware Indexes for CXL-based Heterogeneous Memory
    Haoru Zhao, Mingkai Dong, Fangnuo Wu, and Haibo Chen
    In 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 26), Aug 2026
  4. UAI 22
    Federated Online Clustering of Bandits
    Xutong Liu, Haoru Zhao, Tong Yu, Shuai Li, and John Lui
    In 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 22), 2022