FAST '27

25th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

February 23–25, 2027
Renton, WA, USA
Fall paper submissions due September 15, 2026

The 25th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '27) will take place on February 23–25, 2027, in Renton, WA, USA. FAST will bring together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.

Interested in Participating? View the Call for Papers. Fall paper submissions are due on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.

Test of Time Award Nominations

Submit a nomination for the FAST Test of Time Award! The award honors FAST papers published 10+ years ago that have had a significant impact within our community of storage-system researchers and practitioners and beyond. Nominations received by December 14, 2026, will be considered for the 2027 award. Any nominations received after that date will be considered for future years.

Venue

Hyatt Regency Lake Washington
1053 Lake Washington Blvd. N
Renton, WA 98056
USA
+1 425.203.1234

About FAST '27

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

Conference Organizers

George Amvrosiadis
Carnegie Mellon University
Program Co-Chair
Peter Macko
MongoDB
Program Co-Chair

Program Committee

Mania Abdi, Google
Keira Adams
Ram Alagappan, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Oana Balmau, McGill University
Matias Bjørling, Western Digital
Sergey Blagodurov, AMD
André Brinkmann, Saarland University
Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech
Zhichao Cao, Arizona State University
Aleksey Charapko, University of New Hampshire
Young-ri Choi, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Alex Conway, Cornell Tech
Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University
Hyeonsang Eom, Seoul National University
Aishwarya Ganesan, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Dimitra Giantsidi, Microsoft Research
Ashvin Goel, University of Toronto
Danny Harnik, IBM Research
Jun He, Google
Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Cheng Huang, Uber
Jian Huang, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
William Jannen, Williams College
Jinkyu Jeong, Yonsei University
Rob Johnson, VMware Research
Saurabh Kadekodi, Google
Sudarsun Kannan, Rutgers University
Sanidhya Kashyap, EPFL
Rajat Kateja, Google
Ram Kesavan, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Bryan S. Kim, Syracuse University
Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Seulki Lee, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Baptiste Lepers, Inria
Bingzhe Li, The University of Texas at Dallas
Haoyu Li, Google
Huaicheng Li, Virginia Tech
Jingwei Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Jing Liu, Microsoft Research
Hui Lu, The University of Texas at Arlington
Xiaosong Ma, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Arif Merchant, Google
Ethan Miller, Pure Storage
Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, MongoDB
Dalit Naor, The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo
Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research
Sarah Neuwirth, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Sam H. Noh, Virginia Tech
Andi Quinn, University of California, Santa Cruz
Yuxin Ren, Huawei
Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory
Jiri Schindler, IonQ, Inc.
Margo Seltzer, University of British Columbia
Brad Settlemyer, NVIDIA
Philip Shilane, Dell Technologies
Ji-Yong Shin, Northeastern University
Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University
Jinghan Sun, Purdue University
Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research
Qing Wang, Nanjing University
Wenguang Wang, Broadcom Inc.
Brent Welch, Google
Erci Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Gala Yadgar, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
Juncheng Yang, Harvard University
Ming-Chang Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mingxing Zhang, Tsinghua University
Mai Zheng, Iowa State University
Diyu Zhou, Peking University

Work-in-Progress/Posters Co-Chairs

Alex Conway, Cornell Tech
Huaicheng Li, Virginia Tech

Mentoring Co-Chairs

Zhichao Cao, Arizona State University
Sara McAllister, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Artifact Evaluation Committee Co-Chairs

Bingzhe Li, The University of Texas at Dallas
Erci Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Artifact Evaluation Committee

Hasnain Ali Arain, University of Central Florida
Seungsu Baek, Korea University
Guangyang Deng, Xiamen University
Hao  Hu, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
Dongwook Kim, Yonsei University
Juwon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Chaoqun Li, Shandong University
Jun Li, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Wenkai Li, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Zhen Lin, TikTok Inc.
Jinyao Liu, Shandong University
Mingxuan Liu, Northwestern Polytechnical University
Bingchan  Ma, Trine University
Chinmay Dhanraj Nehate, University of Central Florida
Yanqi Pan, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
Parth Mitesh Parikh, Microsoft
Rohan Puri, DDN
Yanjing Ren, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hemant Sethi, Crusoe AI
Mayank Singh Shishodia, Anthropic
Haoze Song, National University of Singapore
Sankalpa Timilsina, Tennessee Technological University
Joel Tony, Microsoft Research
Tuowei Wang, Tsinghua University
Yuan Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Tianyuan Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xiangrui Xu, Old Dominion University
Jingyuan Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Jirong Yang, The University of Texas at Austin
Zeren Yang, Microsoft
Peng Yao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Sheng Yao, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hanfei Yu, Stevens Institute of Technology
Gen Zhang, The National University of Defense Technology
Yiren Zhao, Princeton University

Steering Committee

Marcos K. Aguilera, VMware Research
Casey Henderson-Ross, USENIX Association
Dean Hildebrand, Google
Dalit Naor, The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo
Sam H. Noh, Virginia Tech
Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
Carl Waldspurger, Carl Waldspurger Consulting
Gala Yadgar, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology

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