Jinghan Sun

I will join Purdue ECE as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026! I am looking for prospective PhD and Master’s students to work with me.

I am currently visiting the FAIR SysML Group at Meta. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Jian Huang and Prof. Marc Snir. My research interests are at the intersection of machine learning (ML) and systems, with a particular focus on the design and implementation of learning-based storage systems. I work across the entire storage stack, from storage hardware development (e.g., solid-state drives) to system software and cloud storage platforms.

News

• [03/2025] I am honored to be part of the ML and Systems Rising Stars Program of 2025.
• [10/2024] Our work on RL-based multi-tenant storage systems has been accepted by ASPLOS ‘25.
• [09/2024] SkyBox improves the system sustainablity of modular data centers. The paper has been accepted by ACM SoCC ‘24. See you in Redmond in November!
• [08/2023] Our work on learning to drive software-defined storage has been accepted by MICRO ‘23.
• [05/2023] Delighted to become a research intern (again!) at Microsoft Research this summer.

Publications

(* co-primary authors)

Services

Reviewer

• ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2025
• IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2024
• ML for Systems Workshop at NeurIPS, 2024, 2025

External Reviewer

• VLDB 2024
• ATC 2024

Artifact Evaluation Commitee

• ATC 2023
• SC 2021

Teaching

• ECE 522 Emerging Memory and Storage Systems, UIUC, TA, Fall 2024
• CS 233: Computer Architecture, UIUC, TA, Fall 2023
• ECE 522 Emerging Memory and Storage Systems, UIUC, TA, Spring 2023

Awards

• ML and Systems Rising Stars, MLCommons, 2025
• Kenichi Miura Award – For Excellence in High-Performance Computing, UIUC, 2023
• NVMW Memorable Paper Award Finalist, NVMW, 2023
• Student Travel Grants, NVMW ’23 & OSDI ’22
• Conference Presentation Award, UIUC, 2021 & 2023

Invited Talks

• Towards Building a Learning-Based Storage Ecosystem and Beyond, 2025
  @ UC Irvine, UNC Chapel Hill, Purdue, Univ. of Edinburgh, Syracuse, IU Bloomington, Yale
• Exploring the Efficiency of Renewable Energy-based Modular Data Centers at Scale, 2024
  @ CSL Compute-Energy-Nexus Workshop
• Towards Learning-Based Storage Systems, 2023
  @ ByteDance Tech Talk
• Learning-Based Flash Translation, 2022
  @ Western Digital 2030 AI Focus Seminar

Professional Experience

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Systems and Machine Learning Research Group @ Meta FAIR, 2025
• Research Intern, Systems Innovation and Cloud Reliability Group @ Microsoft Research, 2023
• Research Intern, Systems & Networking Group @ Microsoft Research, 2021
• Research Intern, PACMAN Group @ Tsinghua University, 2019
• Software Intern, Open Source Technology Center @ Intel China, 2018

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020 - 2025
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018 - 2020
• B.S. in Computer Science, Beihang University, 2014 - 2018
I obtained my bachelor's degree at the age of 19 :)

Miscellaneous

• I enjoy playing soccer in my spare time. I also love classical music. My favorite composers are J.S. Bach and Frederic Chopin, and I can play some of their shorter piano pieces.