FAST '26

24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

February 24–26, 2026

Santa Clara, CA, USA

Thanks to those who joined us for the 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '26). We hope you enjoyed the event.

FAST brings together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.

As part of our commitment to open access to research, the full proceedings and presentation slides are free and open to the public on the technical sessions page. Videos are posted within a few weeks of the end of the event.

Registration Information

Early Bird Registration Deadline: Monday, February 2, 2026

See the Registration Information page for details, including fees, discount information, and other deadlines.

Discounts

In addition to our member discounts, USENIX offers several discounts to help you to attend FAST '26, including a hardship discount for USENIX members who are unemployed or retired, in between jobs, or lack employer support.

Accessibility Information

USENIX is committed to ensuring that our meetings are fully accessible to all attendees. Visit our accessibility information page for details on mothers' rooms, ADA accessibility accommodation options, and how to make a request.

To ensure that we meet your needs, please make your request by Monday, February 2, 2026. We cannot guarantee that we can meet requests received after this date, although we will make every reasonable effort to do so.

Venue

Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
5101 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA, 95054
USA
+1 408.200.1234

Hotel Reservation Deadline: Monday, February 2, 2026

USENIX has negotiated a special conference attendee room rate of US$299 for single/double occupancy for conference attendees, including in-room wireless internet. To receive this rate, book your room online or call the hotel directly and mention USENIX or FAST '26 when making your reservation.

The group rate will be available through Monday, February 2, 2026, or until the block sells out, whichever occurs first. After this date, contact the hotel directly to inquire about room availability.

Room and Ride Sharing

USENIX maintains a Google Group to facilitate communication among attendees seeking roommates and ride sharing. You can sign up for free to find attendees with whom you can share a hotel room, taxi, shuttle, or other ride-share service. Please include "FAST '26" in the subject line when posting a new request.

Parking

See the hotel's website for up-to-date parking information and rates.

About FAST '26

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Questions?

Review our Conference FAQs, and send direct queries via email:

Registration: [email protected]
Membership: [email protected]
Sponsorship: [email protected]
Student Grants: [email protected]
Proceedings Papers: [email protected]

Conference Organizers

André Brinkmann

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Program Co-Chair

Philip Shilane

Dell Technologies

Program Co-Chair

Program Committee

Samer Al-Kiswany, University of Waterloo

Ramnatthan Alagappan, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and VMware Research

Ali Anwar, University of Minnesota

Hossein Asadi, Sharif University of Technology

Janki Bhimani, Florida International University

Matias Bjørling, Western Digital

Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech

Zhichao Cao, Arizona State University

Yue Cheng, The University of Virginia

Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University

Ramesh Doddaiah, Dell Technologies

Mingkai Dong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

David Du, University of Minnesota

Dong Du, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Raúl Gracia, Dell Technologies

Xubin He, Temple University

Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Uday Kiran Jonnala, Dell Technologies

Annmary Justine, Hewlett Packard Labs

Sudarsun Kannan, Rutgers University

Ram Kesavan, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Bryan S. Kim, Syracuse University

Patrick Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sungjin Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

Bingzhe Li, The University of Texas at Dallas

Huaicheng Li, Virginia Tech

Jingwei Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Xiaolu Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Yu Liang, ETH Zurich

Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz

Peter Macko, MongoDB

Haiyu Mao, ETH Zurich

Alex Merenstein, IBM Research

Ethan Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz and Pure Storage

Hyungon Moon, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

Dalit Naor, The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo

Sarah Neuwirth, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University

Jie Ren, College of William & Mary

Yuxin Ren, Huawei

Reza Salkhordeh, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Felix Schuhknecht, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Euiseong Seo, Sungkyunkwan University

Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University

Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research

Yuke Wang, Rice University

Youjip Won, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Wen Xia, Harbin Institute of Technology

Erci Xu, Alibaba and Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Chun Jason Xue, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

Gala Yadgar, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology

Juncheng Yang, Harvard University

Ming-Chang Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jian Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ming Zhao, Arizona State University

Mai Zheng, Iowa State University

Xiaowei Zhu, Ant Group

Work-in-Progress/Posters Co-Chairs

Zhichao Cao, Arizona State University

Wen Xia, Harbin Institute of Technology

Mentoring Co-Chairs

Mathias Bjørling, Western Digital

Zhichao Cao, Arizona State University

Artifact Evaluation Committee Co-Chairs

Erci Xu, Alibaba and Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Juncheng Yang, Harvard University

Artifact Evaluation Committee

Minwoo Ahn, Sungkyunkwan University

Ghadeer Almusaddar, Binghamton University

Pushpa Kumar Balan, University of Central Missouri

Shreesha Gopalakrishna Bhat, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tingjia Cao, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Prajwal Challa, The University of Texas at Arlington

Shawn Chen, Carnegie Mellon University

Wendi Cheng, Northwestern Polytechnical University

Seokjoo Cho, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Jiaqi Deng, Georgia Institute of Technology

Saarth Deshpande, The University of Texas at Austin

Zheyun Feng, University of New Hampshire

Bin Gao, National University of Singapore

Pradeep Kumar Goudagunta, Dropbox

Fei Gui, Tsinghua University

Hao Guo, Tsinghua University

Jinnan Guo, Imperial College London

Abhishek Gupta, Huawei and NetApp

Ojas Gupta, Juniper Networks

Surabhi Gupta, Google

Ashwin Das Gururaja, Adobe

Runzhou Han, Microsoft

Shujie Han, Northwestern Polytechnical University

Shiyue Hou, Northeastern University

Jiyu Hu, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Yibo Huang, University of Michigan

Zhengjie Ji, Virginia Tech

Yin Jia, Renmin University of China

Sheng Jiang, Carnegie Mellon University

Yankai Jiang, Northeastern University

Ajay Joshi, Snowflake

Prudhviraj Karumanchi, Netflix

Zhaokang Ke, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Redwan Ibne Seraj Khan, Virginia Tech

Isaac Khor, Northeastern University

Timothy Kim, Carnegie Mellon University

Hanchen Li, The University of Chicago

Haoyu Li, Columbia University

Jun Li, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Yuze Li, Virginia Tech

Qi Lin, Arizona State University

Tejas Lodaya, DoorDash

Hitesh Saai Mananchery Panneerselvam, Expedia Group

Alagappan Maruthappan, Netflix

Qiutong Men, New York University

Deepanjali Mishra, Carnegie Mellon University

Niraj Pal, Twitch and The University of Texas at Dallas

Yanqi Pan, Harbin Institute of Technology

Santosh Pandey, Rutgers University

Xi Pang, Purdue University

Tharindu Patabandi, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

Shishir Patil, University of California, Berkeley

Rohan Puri, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

Ziyue Qiu, Carnegie Mellon University

Yanjing Ren, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Amit Samanta, The University of Utah

Alok Shankar, Carnegie Mellon University

Shubhendra Pal Singhal, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tong Sun, Zhejiang University

Xin Tan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Viraj Thakkar, Arizona State University

Divyaank Tiwari, Stony Brook University

Joel Tony, Microsoft Research

Vaibhav Upadhyay, PhonePe

Jing Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yirong Wang, Northeastern University

Chenhao Ye, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Feng Yicheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yucheng Yin, Conviva

Hanfei Yu, Stevens Institute of Technology

Wahid Uz Zaman, The Pennsylvania State University

Yannis Zarkadas, Columbia University

Gen Zhang, National University of Defense Technology

Jianshun Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Xiangqun Zhang, Syracuse University

Yongkang Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Shawn (Wanxiang) Zhong, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Yanbo Zhou, University of California, San Diego

Steering Committee

Marcos K. Aguilera, VMware Research

Ashvin Goel, University of Toronto

Casey Henderson-Ross, USENIX Association

Dean Hildebrand, Google

Dalit Naor, The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo

Sam H. Noh, Virginia Tech

Don Porter, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University

Carl Waldspurger, Carl Waldspurger Consulting

Gala Yadgar, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology

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The acceptance of any organization as a sponsor does not imply explicit or implicit approval by USENIX of the sponsoring organization’s values or actions. In addition, sponsorship does not provide any control over conference program content. Questions? Email [email protected].