List of Full/Long Papers

(Underlined names are/were students advised/co-advised by me)

ASPLOS'26	SpecProto: A Parallelizing Compiler for Speculative Decoding of Large Protocol Buffers Data [Paper (to appear)] Zhijie Wang, Chales Hong Dhruv Parmar, Shengbo Ma, Zhijia Zhao, Qidong Zhao, Xu Liu Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System (Vol. 2), 2026 (acceptance rate: 89/840=10.6%)
ASPLOS'26	cuJSON: A Highly Parallel JSON Parser for GPUs [Paper (to appear)] [Code] Ashkan Vedadi Gargary*, Soroosh Safari Loaliyan*, and Zhijia Zhao (*co-primary) Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System (Vol. 1), 2026 (acceptance rate: 20/208=9.6%)
ICS'25	GraCFL: A Holistically Designed Vertex-Centric Graph System for CFL Reachability [Paper] [Code] Sakib Fuad, Amir Hossein Nodehi Sabet, Umar Farooq, and Zhijia Zhao ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 2025, June 8–11th, 2025, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
PPoPP'25	PANNS: Enhancing Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search through Recency-aware Construction and Parameterized Search [Paper] Xizhe Yin, Chao Gao, Zhijia Zhao, and Rajiv Gupta ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming 2025, March 1st–5th, 2025, Las Vegas, NV, USA
SoCC'24	IncBoost: Scaling Incremental Graph Processing for Edge Deletions and Weight Updates [Paper] Xizhe Yin, Zhijia Zhao, and Rajiv Gupta ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC ’24), November 20–22, 2024, Redmond, WA, USA
EuroSys'24	Core Graph: Exploiting Edge Centrality to Speedup the Evaluation of Iterative Graph Queries [Paper] Xiaoling Jiang, Mahbod Afarin, Zhijia Zhao, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, and Rajiv Gupta Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Systems, 2024
AST'23	Detecting Potential User-Data Save & Export Losses due to Android App Termination [Paper] Sydur Rahaman, Umar Farooq, Iulian Neamtiu, and Zhijia Zhao ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test, 2023
SIGMOD'23	dsJSON: A Distributed SQL JSON Processor [Paper] Majid Saeedan, Ahmed Eldawy, and Zhijia Zhao Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, Vol. 1, No. 1, Article 103, 2023
ASPLOS'23	Glign: Taming Misaligned Graph Traversals in Concurrent Graph Processing [Paper] [Code] Xizhe Yin, Zhijia Zhao, and Rajiv Gupta Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System, 2023
ASPLOS'22	JSONSki: Streaming Semi-Structured Data with Bit-Parallel Fast-Forwarding [Paper] [Code] [Best Paper Award] Lin Jiang and Zhijia Zhao Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System, 2022 (acceptance rate: 20%)
EuroSys'21	Tripoline: Generalized Incremental Graph Processing via Graph Triangle Inequality [Paper] [16-min Talk] [20-min Talk] Xiaolin Jiang*, Chengshuo Xu*, Xizhe Yin*, Zhijia Zhao, and Rajiv Gupta (* co-primary) Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Systems, 2021
ASPLOS'21	Scalable FSM Parallelization via Path Fusion and Higher-Order Speculation [Extended Abstract] [Full Paper] [Artifacts] Junqiao Qiu, Xiaofan Sun, Amir Hossein Nodehi Sabet, and Zhijia Zhao Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System, 2021 (acceptance rate: 18.8%)
VLDB'21	Scalable Structural Index Construction for JSON Analytics [Paper] [Code] Lin Jiang, Junqiao Qiu, and Zhijia Zhao The 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
BigData'20	App-Aware Response Synthesis for User Reviews [Paper] [Dataset] Umar Farooq*, A.B. Siddique*, Fuad Jamour, Zhijia Zhao, and Vagelis Hristidis (* co-primary) IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2020 (acceptance rate: 15.5%)
OOPSLA'20	LiveDroid: Identifying and Preserving Mobile App State in Volatile Runtime Environments [Paper] [Talk] [Slides] Umar Farooq, Zhijia Zhao, Manu Sridharan, and Iulian Neamtiu Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), 2020
EuroSys'20	Subway: Minimizing Data Transfer during Out-of-GPU-Memory Graph Processing [Paper] [3-min Talk] [10-min Talk] [Slides] [Code] Amir Hossein Nodehi Sabet, Zhijia Zhao, and Rajiv Gupta Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Systems, 2020 (acceptance rate: 18.4%)
ASPLOS'20	Challenging Sequential Bitstream Processing via Principled Bitwise Speculation [Paper] [Talk] [Best Paper Award] Junqiao Qiu, Lin Jiang, and Zhijia Zhao Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System, 2020 (acceptance rate: 18.1%)
TACO'20	Reliability Analysis for Unreliable FSM Computations [Paper] [Talk] Amir Hossein Nodehi Sabet, Junqiao Qiu, Zhijia Zhao, and Sriram Krishnamoorthy ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, 2020
ASPLOS'19	Scalable Processing of Contemporary Semi-Structured Data on Commodity Parallel Processors - A Compilation-based Approach [Paper] [Code] Lin Jiang, Xiaofan Sun, Umar Farooq, and Zhijia Zhao Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System, 2019 (acceptance rate: 21.1%)
CGO'19	Transforming Query Sequences for High-Throughput B+ Tree Processing on Many-core Processors [Paper] Ruiqin Tian*, Junqiao Qiu*, Zhijia Zhao, Xu Liu, and Bin Ren (* co-primary) Proceedings of International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, 2019
MobiSys'18	RuntimeDroid: Restarting-Free Runtime Change Handling for Android Apps [Paper] [Best Paper Runner-up Award] [SIGMOBILE Research Highlights] Umar Farooq, Zhijia Zhao Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, 2018
ASPLOS'18	Tigr: Transforming Irregular Graphs for GPU-Friendly Graph Processing [Paper] [Code] Amir Hossein Nodehi Sabet, Junqiao Qiu, Zhijia Zhao Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2018 (17.6% acceptance rate)
ICS'17	Enabling Scalability-Sensitive Speculative Parallelization for FSM Computations [Paper] Junqiao Qiu, Zhijia Zhao, Bo Wu, Abhinav Vishnu, Shuaiwen Leon Song Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing, 2017 (15.8% acceptance rate)
PPoPP'17	Grammar-aware Parallelization for Scalable XPath Querying [Paper] Lin Jiang, Zhijia Zhao Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, 2017 (22% acceptance rate)
PACT'16	MicroSpec: Speculation-Centric Fine-Grained Parallelization for FSM Computations [Paper] Junqiao Qiu, Zhijia Zhao, Bin Ren Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation, 2016 (26% acceptance rate)

ASPLOS'15	On-the-Fly Principled Speculation for FSM Parallelization [Paper] Zhijia Zhao, Xipeng Shen Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2015
OOPSLA'14	Call Sequence Prediction through Probabilistic Calling Automata [Paper] Zhijia Zhao, Bo Wu, Mingzhou Zhou, Yufei Ding, Jianhua Sun, Xipeng Shen, Youfeng Wu Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages & Applications, 2014
UbiComp'14	SatScore: Uncovering and Avoiding a Principled Pitfall in Responsiveness Measurements of App Launches [Paper] Zhijia Zhao, Mingzhou Zhou, Xipeng Shen Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 2014
ASPLOS'14	Challenging the "Embarrassingly Sequential": Parallelizing Finite State Machine-based Computations through Principled Speculation [Paper] Zhijia Zhao, Bo Wu, Xipeng Shen Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2014
ASPLOS'14	Finding the Limit: Examining the Potential and Complexity of Compilation Scheduling for JIT-based Runtime Systems [Paper] Yufei Ding, Mingzhou Zhou, Zhijia Zhao, Sarah Eisenstat, Xipeng Shen Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2014
TACO'13	HPar: A Practical Parallel Parser for HTML--Taming HTML Complexities for Parallel Parsing [Paper] Zhijia Zhao, Michael Bebenita, Dave Herman, Jianhua Sun, Xipeng Shen ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, 2013
PPoPP'13	Complexity Analysis and Algorithm Design for Reorganizing Data to Minimize Non-coalesced Memory Accesses on GPU [Paper] Bo Wu, Zhijia Zhao, Eddy Zheng Zhang, Yunlian Jiang, Xipeng Shen Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, 2013
OOPSLA'12	Exploiting Inter-sequence Correlations for Program Behavior Prediction [Paper] Bo Wu, Zhijia Zhao, Xipeng Shen, Yunlian Jiang, Yaoqing Gao, Raul Silvera Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications, 2012