Portrait
Shaobo Li
Ph.D. Student, ECE
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
About Me

I am an ECE Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Jian Huang as a member of the Systems Platform Research Group. I am interested in building advanced and efficient file systems and storage-system software for modern AI infrastructure and emerging hardware.

Prior to my Ph.D. study, I obtained my Bachelor's degree in ECE from UIUC.

Selected Publications (view all )
RAGPerf: An End-to-End Benchmarking Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Shaobo Li, Yirui Zhou, Yuan Xu, Kevin Chen, Daniel Waddington, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Hubertus Franke, Jian Huang

arXiv preprint 2026

[arXiv] [PDF]

RAGPerf: An End-to-End Benchmarking Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Shaobo Li, Yirui Zhou, Yuan Xu, Kevin Chen, Daniel Waddington, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Hubertus Franke, Jian Huang

arXiv preprint 2026

[arXiv] [PDF]

Managing Scalable Direct Storage Accesses for GPUs with GoFS

Shaobo Li, Yirui Zhou, Yuqi Xue, Yuan Xu, Jian Huang

ACM SIGOPS 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '25) 2025

[Paper] [DOI]

Managing Scalable Direct Storage Accesses for GPUs with GoFS

Shaobo Li, Yirui Zhou, Yuqi Xue, Yuan Xu, Jian Huang

ACM SIGOPS 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '25) 2025

[Paper] [DOI]

ByteFS: System Support for (CXL-Based) Memory-Semantic Solid-State Drives

Shaobo Li, Yirui Zhou, Hao Ren, Jian Huang

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '25) 2025

[Paper] [DOI]

ByteFS: System Support for (CXL-Based) Memory-Semantic Solid-State Drives

Shaobo Li, Yirui Zhou, Hao Ren, Jian Huang

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '25) 2025

[Paper] [DOI]

The Security War in File Systems: An Empirical Study from A Vulnerability-Centric Perspective

Jinghan Sun, Shaobo Li, Jun Xu, Jian Huang

ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS '23) 2023

[Paper]

The Security War in File Systems: An Empirical Study from A Vulnerability-Centric Perspective

Jinghan Sun, Shaobo Li, Jun Xu, Jian Huang

ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS '23) 2023

[Paper]

LeaFTL: A Learning-Based Flash Translation Layer for Solid-State Drives

Jinghan Sun, Shaobo Li, Yunxin Sun, Chao Sun, Dejan Vucinic, Jian Huang

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '23) 2023

[Paper] [Code] [Slides]

LeaFTL: A Learning-Based Flash Translation Layer for Solid-State Drives

Jinghan Sun, Shaobo Li, Yunxin Sun, Chao Sun, Dejan Vucinic, Jian Huang

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '23) 2023

[Paper] [Code] [Slides]

All publications
Education
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Ph.D. Student
    present
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    prior
Experience
  • Alibaba Cloud
    Research Intern
    May 2023 - Aug 2023
  • UIUC ECE391 Computer Systems Engineering
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Spring 2023
  • UIUC ECE411 Computer Organization and Design
    Graduate TA (Fall 2023), Volunteer TA (Spring 2022)
    2022 - 2023
Services
  • Artifact Evaluation Committee, ASPLOS
    2023
  • Artifact Evaluation Committee, EuroSys
    2022