- Assistant Professor
- Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering
- Phone: 401.874.5849
- Email: weiwei.jia@uri.edu
- Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering, Rm 405
- Website
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Research
- Computer Systems
- Operating Systems
- Cloud Computing
- Systems Virtualization
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2021
Selected Publications
Siyuan Chai, Jiyuan Zhang, Jongyul Kim, Alan Wang, Fan Chung, Jovan Stojkovic, Weiwei Jia, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Josep Torrellas, Tianyin Xu. “EMT: An OS Framework for New Memory Translation Architectures” Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2025)
Edward Guo, Weiwei Jia, Xiaoning Ding, Jianchen Shan. “Optimizing Task Scheduling in Cloud VMs with Accurate vCPU Abstraction” Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2025)
Jiyuan Zhang, Jongyul Kim, Chloe Alverti, Peizhe Liu, Weiwei Jia, Tianyin Xu. “Rethinking Tiered Storage: Talk to File Systems, Not Device Drivers” Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS 2025)
Jiyuan Zhang, Weiwei Jia, Siyuan Chai, Peizhe Liu, Jongyul Kim, Tianyin Xu. “Direct Memory Translation for Virtualized Clouds” Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2024)
Weiwei Jia, Jiyuan Zhang, Jianchen Shan, Xiaoning Ding. “Making Dynamic Page Coalescing Effective on Virtualized Clouds” Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2023)
Weiwei Jia, Jiyuan Zhang, Jianchen Shan, Yiming Du, Xiaoning Ding, Tianyin Xu. “HugeGPT: Storing Guest Page Tables on Host Huge Pages to Accelerate Address Translation” Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2023)
Weiwei Jia, Jiyuan Zhang, Jianchen Shan, Jing Li, Xiaoning Ding. “Achieving Low Latency in Public Edges by Hiding Workloads Mutual Interference” Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2022)
Luyi Kang*, Yuqi Xue*, Weiwei Jia*, Xiaohao Wang, Jongryool Kim, Changhwan Youn, Myeong Joon Kang, Jin Lim, Bruce Jacob, Jian Huang. “IceClave: A Trusted Execution Environment for In-Storage Computing” Proceedings of the 54th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2021)
*co-primary authors
Xiaowei Shang, Weiwei Jia, Jianchen Shan, Xiaoning Ding. “CoPlace: Effectively Mitigating Cache Conflicts in Modern Clouds” Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2021)
Weiwei Jia, Jianchen Shan, Tsz On Li, Xiaowei Shang, Heming Cui, Xiaoning Ding. “vSMT-IO: Improving I/O Performance and Efficiency on SMT Processors in Virtualized Clouds” Proceedings of the 2020 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 2020)
Recent Grants
7/15/2025. PI. National Science Foundation. "CAREER: Redefining Memory Virtualization in Clouds."
5/1/2024. PI. National Science Foundation. "CRII: SHF: A Novel Address Translation Architecture for Virtualized Clouds."
Honors & Awards
- NSF CAREER Award
- NSF CRII Award