Publications

@misc{ye2026accelerating,
  author = {Ye, Jie and Islam, Shazzadul and Cernuda, Jaime and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  title = {Accelerating Multi-Agent Orchestration with Speculative Dispatching},
  howpublished = {Poster, 13th Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR 2026), Evanston, IL},
  year = {2026},
  month = {May},
}

@inproceedings{pawar2026acropolis,
  title={Acropolis: A Portable, AI-Driven Semantic Search System for HPC},
  author={Pawar, Rajni and Logan, Luke and Cernuda, Jaime and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={22nd IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2026)},
  year={2026}
}

@inproceedings{bateman2026aes,
  title={Agent Error Simulator: Fault Injection for Testing Recovery in Agentic Workflows},
  author={Bateman, Keith and Cernuda, Jaime and Logan, Luke and Nicolae, Bogdan and Cappello, Franck and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={22nd IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2026)},
  year={2026}
}

@misc{islam2026agenticsearch,
  title={Agentic Search Efficiency for Scientific Data Discovery},
  author={Islam, Shazzadul and Cernuda, Jaime and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={13th Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR 2026)},
  year={2026},
  month=may,
  address={Evanston, IL, USA},
  note={Poster presentation}
}

@inproceedings{yildirim2026correctisnotioefficient,
  title={Correct Is Not I/O Efficient: Characterizing I/O Behavior of LLM Agents on Scientific Data},
  author={Yildirim, Izzet and Ye, Jie and Cernuda, Jaime and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={13th Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR 2026)},
  year={2026},
  month={may},
  note={Poster presentation}
}

@misc{chowdhury25prevspost,
  title={Pre-RoPE versus Post-RoPE Trading Per-Step Compute for KVCache Survivability},
  author={Chowdhury, Zia Uddin and Cernuda, Jaime and Ye, Jie and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={Greater Chicago Area Systems Research (GCASR)},
  year={2026},
  month=may,
  address={Chicago, USA},
  note={Poster presentation}
}

@inproceedings{xu2026richoperators,
  title={Rich I/O-centric Derived Quantity Operators for Advanced In Situ Processing},
  author={Xu, Hua and Cernuda, Jaime and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He and Gainaru, Ana and Klasky, Scott and Taufer, M. and Tan, N. and Assogba, K. and Rafique, M. and Nicolae, Bogdan and Teves, J. and Brinker, C. and Pouchard, L. and Lofstead, Jay},
  booktitle={22nd IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2026)},
  year={2026}
}

@inproceedings{ye2025characterizing,
  title={Characterizing the Behavior and Impact of KV Caching on Transformer Inferences under Concurrency},
  author={Ye, Jie and Cernuda, Jaime and Maurya, Avinash and Sun, Xian-He and Kougas, Anthony and Nicolae, Bogdan},
  booktitle={IPDPS'25: The 39th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium},
  year={2025}
}

@inproceedings{10.1145/3733723.3733736,
  author = {Bateman, Keith Alex and Rajesh, Neeraj and Cernuda, Jaime and Logan, Luke and Nicolae, Bogdan and Cappello, Franck and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  title = {DTIO: Data Stack for AI-driven Workflows},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management},
  doi = {10.1145/3733723.3733736}
}

@inproceedings{xu2025operators,
  title={Rich Operators for Advanced In Situ Processing},
  author={Xu, H. and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He and Cernuda, Jaime},
  booktitle={The 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025)},
  year={2025}
}

@inproceedings{islam2025aidriven,
  title={Towards an AI-driven scientific workflow},
  author={Islam, S. and Cernuda, Jaime and Muradli, I. and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={21st IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience '25)},
  year={2025}
}

@inproceedings{tang2024dayu,
  author = {Tang, Meng and Cernuda, Jaime and Ye, Jie and Guo, Luanzheng and Tallent, Nathan R. and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  title = {DaYu: Optimizing Distributed Scientific Workflows by Decoding Dataflow Semantics and Dynamics},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER)},
  pages = {357--369},
  doi = {10.1109/CLUSTER59578.2024.00038}
}

@inproceedings{cernuda2024hades,
  title={Hades: A Context-Aware Active Storage Framework for Accelerating Large-Scale Data Analysis},
  author={Cernuda, Jaime and Logan, Luke and Gainaru, Ana and Klasky, Scott and Lofstead, Jay and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={The 24th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing},
  pages = {577--586},
  year={2024},
  doi={DOI 10.1109/CCGrid59990.2024.00070}
}

@inproceedings{10.1145/3673038.3673150,
  author = {Cernuda, Jaime and Ye, Jie and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  title = {HStream: A hierarchical data streaming engine for high-throughput scientific applications},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 53rd International Conference on Parallel Processing},
  pages = {231–240},
  doi = {10.1145/3673038.3673150}
}

@inproceedings{cernuda2024jarvis,
  title={Jarvis: Towards a Shared, User-Friendly, and Reproducible, I/O Infrastructure},
  author={Cernuda, Jaime and Logan, Luke and Lewis, Nicholas and Byna, Suren and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={The International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW'24)},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{ye2024viper,
  title={Viper: A High-Performance I/O Framework for Transparently Updating, Storing, and Transferring Deep Neural Network Models},
  author={Ye, Jie and Cernuda, Jaime and Rajesh, Neeraj and Bateman, Keith and Yildiz, Orcun and Peterka, Tom and Nigmetov, Arnur and Morozov, Dmitriy and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 53rd International Conference on Parallel Processing},
  pages={812--821},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{logan2022labstor,
  title={LabStor: A Modular and Extensible Platform for Developing High-Performance, Customized I/O Stacks in Userspace},
  author={Logan, Luke and Garcia, Jaime Cernuda and Lofstead, Jay and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={2022 SC22: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC)},
  pages={309--323},
  year={2022},
  organization={IEEE Computer Society}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{bateman2022luxio,
  author={Bateman, Keith and Rajesh, Neeraj and Cernuda Garcia, Jaime and Logan, Luke and Ye, Jie and Herbein, Stephen and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={2022 IEEE 29th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC)}, 
  title={LuxIO: Intelligent Resource Provisioning and Auto-Configuration for Storage Services}, 
  year={2022},
  pages={246-255},
  doi={10.1109/HiPC56025.2022.00041}
}

@inproceedings{10.1145/3431379.3460640,
  author = {Rajesh, Neeraj and Devarajan, Hariharan and Garcia, Jaime Cernuda and Bateman, Keith and Logan, Luke and Ye, Jie and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  title = {Apollo: An ML-Assisted Real-Time Storage Resource Observer},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing},
  pages = {147–159},
  doi = {10.1145/3431379.3460640}
}

@inproceedings{cernuda2021HFlow,
  title={HFlow: A Dynamic and Elastic Multi-Layered Data Forwarder},
  author={Cernuda, Jaime and Devarajan, Hariharan and Logan, Luke and Bateman, Keith and Rajesh, Neeraj and Ye, Jie and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE Cluster Conference 2021},
  pages={114--124},
  year={2021}
}

@inproceedings{kougkas2020chronolog,
  title={ChronoLog: A Distributed Shared Tiered Log Store with Time-based Data Ordering},
  author={Kougkas, Anthony and Devarajan, Hariharan and Bateman, Keith and Cernuda, Jaime and Rajesh, Neeraj and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2020)}
}

@inproceedings{cernuda2019eviction,
  title={Efficient Data Eviction across Multiple Tiers of Storage},
  author={Cernuda, Jaime and Trivino, H. and Devarajan, Hariharan and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC'19)},
  year={2019}
}