Mingkai Dong

DONG Mingkai (董 明凯)

Associate Professor @ IPADS, SJTU

Exploring the frontiers of storage systems and DNA computing. Leading the IPADS Non-volatile Systems Group to shape the future of storage technologies.

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Research Interests

Operating Systems

Designing and implementing next-generation operating systems with a focus on performance and reliability.

File Systems

Innovating file system architectures for emerging storage technologies and non-volatile memory.

DNA Storage

Pioneering research in DNA-based storage systems for the future of data preservation and computing.

Publications

Liquid-State Drive: A Case for DNA Block Device for Enormous Data
FAST '25

Jiahao Zhou, Mingkai Dong, Fei Wang, Jingyao Zeng, Lei Zhao, Chunhai Fan, Haibo Chen

Pioneering work on implementing DNA storage as a practical block device, pushing the boundaries of storage capacity.

TreeSLS: A Tree-structured Microkernel with Efficient Whole-system Persistence on NVM
SOSP '23
Best Paper Award! 🏆

Fangnuo Wu, Mingkai Dong, Gequan Mo, Haibo Chen

Novel microkernel architecture leveraging non-volatile memory for system persistence.

2024
Using Dynamically Layered Definite Releases for Verifying the RefFS File System
OSDI '24

Mo Zou, Dong Du, Mingkai Dong, Haibo Chen

2023
DNA-based programmable gate arrays for general-purpose DNA computing
Nature

Hui Lv, Nuli Xie, Mingqiang Li, Mingkai Dong, Chenyun Sun, Qian Zhang, Lei Zhao, Jiang Li, Xiaolei Zuo, Haibo Chen, Fei Wang, Chunhai Fan

2022
HTMFS: Strong Consistency Comes for Free with Hardware Transactional Memory in Persistent Memory File Systems
FAST '22

Jifei Yi, Mingkai Dong, Fangnuo Wu, Haibo Chen

MT^2: Memory bandwidth Regulation on Hybrid NVM/DRAM Platforms
FAST '22

Jifei Yi, Benchao Dong, Mingkai Dong, Ruizhe Tong, Haibo Chen

2020
On the Precision of Precise Event Based Sampling
APSys '20

Jifei Yi, Benchao Dong, Mingkai Dong, Haibo Chen

2019
Performance and Protection in the ZoFS User-space NVM File System
SOSP '19

Mingkai Dong, Heng Bu, Jifei Yi, Benchao Dong, Haibo Chen

EROFS: A Compression-friendly Readonly File System for Resource-scarce Device
USENIX ATC '19

Xiang Gao, Mingkai Dong, Xie Miao, Wei Du, Chao Yu, Haibo Chen

2017
Soft Updates Made Simple and Fast for Non-volatile Memories
USENIX ATC '17

Mingkai Dong, Haibo Chen

Efficient and Available In-memory KV-Store with Hybrid Erasure Coding and Replication
ACM Transactions on Storage

Haibo Chen, Heng Zhang, Mingkai Dong, Zhaoguo Wang, Yubin Xia, Haibing Guan and Binyu Zang

2016
Rethinking Benchmarking for NVM-based File Systems
APSys '16

Mingkai Dong, Qianqian Yu, Xiaozhou Zhou, Yang Hong, Haibo Chen and Binyu Zang

Efficient and Available In-memory KV-Store with Hybrid Erasure Coding and Replication
FAST '16

Heng Zhang, Mingkai Dong, Haibo Chen

2015
Persistent Transactional Memory
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters

Zhaoguo Wang, Han Yi, Ran Liu, Mingkai Dong and Haibo Chen

VOL. 14, NO. 1, JANUARY-JUNE 2015

Professional Services

Program Committee Member:

  • OSDI 2025
  • FAST 2025, 2026
  • ASPLOS 2025
  • NSDI 2025

Teaching

Current Courses (Spring 2025)

2024 Fall
  • CS3601: Operating Systems
2022-2024 Spring
  • SE2322: Advanced Data Structures
  • EI6711: Advanced Operating Systems
2021-2023 Fall
  • CS1501: Programming - Ideas and Methods
Teaching Assistant Experience
  • SE232: Advanced Data Structures (Chief TA, 2020 Spring)
  • SE127: Practice of Software Foundation (Chief TA, 2019-2021)

Join Our Research Team

We're always looking for passionate students interested in systems and storage research. If you're excited about:

  • Building next-generation storage systems
  • Working with cutting-edge technologies
  • Solving complex systems challenges

Feel free to reach out via email to discuss research opportunities!