Dr. Jianxi Chen received his B.S. degree from Nanjing University in 1999 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in 2002 and 2006 respectively. He was a research scientist in Data Storage Institute (DSI), A*STAR, Singapore during 2012-2013. He has over 30 publications in major journals and conferences including ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), FAST, MSST, IPDPS, MASCOTS and CLUSTER, etc. He is a member of CCF, IEEE.