Khanh Nguyen

CSE@TAMU

Publications

  1. Ognjen Marinkovic, Khanh Nguyen. “Meshilon: A Merging-based Java Garbage Collector”, the 16th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys), Seoul, South Korea, October 12-13, 2025.
  2. Sungkeun Kim, Khanh Nguyen, Chia-Che Tsai, Jaewoo Lee, Abdullah Muzahid, Eun Jung Kim, “Enhancing Program Analysis with Deterministic Distinguishable Calling Context”, the 34th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, March 2025.
  3. Dat Nguyen, Muhammad Rafid, Nathanael Santoso, Khanh Nguyen, “CacheIt: Application-Agnostic Dynamic Caching for Big Data Analytics”, IEEE International Conference on BigData (IEEE BigData), Washington DC, USA, December 15-18, 2024. (Acceptance rate: 124/660, 18.8%)
  4. Dat Nguyen, Khanh Nguyen, “Polar: A Managed Runtime with Hotness-Segregated Heap for Far Memory”, the 15th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys), Kyoto, Japan, September 4-5, 2024.
  5. Siwei Cui, Liuyi Jin, Khanh Nguyen, and Chenxi Wang. “SemSwap: Semantics-aware Swapping in Memory Disaggregated Datacenters”, the 13th SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys), Virtual, Singapore, August 23-24, 2022.
  6. Martin Maas, Chris Kennelly, Khanh Nguyen, Darryl Gove, Kathryn S. McKinley, and Paul Turner. “Adaptive Huge-Page Subrelease for Non-Moving Memory Allocators in Warehouse-Scale Computers”, ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), Virtual, Canada, June 22, 2021. (Acceptance rate: 8/14, 57%) [PDF] [Slides]
  7. Chenxi Wang, Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Yuanqi Li, Zhenyuan Ruan, Khanh Nguyen, Michael Bond, Ravi Netravali, Miryung Kim, and Guoqing Harry Xu. “Semeru: A Memory-Disaggregated Managed Runtime”, the 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 4-6, 2020. (Acceptance rate: 70/398, 18%) [PDF] [Slides]
  8. Christian Navasca, Cheng Cai, Khanh Nguyen, Brian Demsky, Shan Lu, Miryung Kim, and Guoqing Harry Xu. “Gerenuk: Thin Computation over Big Native Data Using Speculative Program Transformation”, the 27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, October 27-30, 2019. (Acceptance rate: 38/276, 14%) [PDF] [Slides]
  9. Cheng Cai, Qirun Zhang, Zhiqiang Zuo, Khanh Nguyen, Guoqing Harry Xu, and Zhendong Su. “Calling-to-Reference Context Translation via Constraint-Guided CFL-Reachability”, ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Philadelphia, PA, June 18-22, 2018. (Acceptance rate: 55/245, 22%) [PDF] [Slides]
  10. Khanh Nguyen, Lu Fang, Christian Navasca, Guoqing Harry Xu, Brian Demsky, and Shan Lu. “Skyway: Connecting Managed Heaps in Distributed Big Data Systems”, the 23rd International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Williamsburg, VA, March 24-28, 2018. (Acceptance rate: 56/319, 18%) [PDF] [PDF Slides] [Slides]
  11. Khanh Nguyen, Kai Wang, Yingyi Bu, Lu Fang, and Guoqing Harry Xu. “Understanding and Combating Memory Bloat in Managed Data-Intensive Systems”, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Volume 26 Issue 4, January 2018. [PDF]
  12. Khanh Nguyen, Lu Fang, Guoqing Harry Xu, Brian Demsky, Shan Lu, Sanazsadat Alamian, and Onur Mutlu. “Yak: A High-Performance Big-Data-Friendly Garbage Collector”, the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Savannah, GA, November 2-4, 2016. (Acceptance rate: 47/267, 18%) [PDF] [PDF Slides] [Slides]
  13. Khanh Nguyen, Lu Fang, Guoqing Harry Xu, and Brian Demsky. “Speculative Region-based Memory Management for Big Data Systems”, the 8th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS), Monterey, CA, October 4, 2015. (Acceptance rate: 7/16, 44%) [PDF] [Slides]
  14. Lu Fang, Khanh Nguyen, Guoqing Harry Xu, Brian Demsky, and Shan Lu. “Interruptible Tasks: Treating Memory Pressure As Interrupts for Highly Scalable Data-Parallel Programs”, the 25th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Monterey, CA, October 4-7, 2015. (Acceptance rate: 30/186, 16%) [PDF] [1-column PDF] [Slides]
  15. Khanh Nguyen, Kai Wang, Yingyi Bu, Lu Fang, Jianfei Hu, and Guoqing Harry Xu. “Facade: A Compiler and Runtime for (Almost) Object-Bounded Big Data Applications”, the 20th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Istanbul, Turkey, March 14-18, 2015. (Acceptance rate: 48/287, 17%) [PDF] [Slides]
  16. Khanh Nguyen, and Guoqing Harry Xu. “Cachetor: Detecting Cacheable Data to Remove Bloat”, Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 18-26, 2013. (Acceptance rate: 51/251, 20%) [PDF] [Slides]