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Hi Young-ri and Bryan,</div>
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Could you please add one external reviewer for his help on the review: <b>Yi Li, University of Texas at Dallas</b>? Thanks!</div>
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Best,</div>
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Bingzhe</div>
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Bingzhe Li<br>
Assistant Professor of Computer Science<br>
University of Texas at Dallas<br>
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<b>From: </b>HotStorage 2026 HotCRP <noreply-hotstorage26@hotcrp.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, August 24, 2026 at 10:15 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Aleksey Charapko <aleksey.charapko@unh.edu>; Samer Al-Kiswany <alkiswany@uwaterloo.ca>; Amelie Chi Zhou <amelie.czhou@gmail.com>; Andre Brinkmann <andre.brinkmann@uni-saarland.de>; Animesh Trivedi <animesh.trivedi@gmail.com>; Hossein Asadi <asadi@sharif.edu>;
Laurent Bindschaedler <bindsch@mpi-sws.org>; Li, Bingzhe <Bingzhe.Li@UTDallas.edu>; Bryan S. Kim <bkim01@syr.edu>; Philippe Bonnet <bonnet@di.ku.dk>; Ivy Peng <bopeng@kth.se>; Dalit Naor <dalit.naor@mta.ac.il>; Dan Feng <dfeng@hust.edu.cn>; Dimitra Giantsidi
<dimitra.giantsidi@gmail.com>; Siying Dong <dong.sy@gmail.com>; Eunji Lee <ejlee@ssu.ac.kr>; Gongjin Sun <gongjins@uci.edu>; K. Gopinath <gopinath.k@rishihood.edu.in>; Haonan Lu <haonanlu@buffalo.edu>; Jalil Boukhobza <jalil.boukhobza@ensta.fr>; Jason Xue
<jason.xue@mbzuai.ac.ae>; Javier Gonzalez <Javier.gonz@samsung.com>; Jinghan Sun <jinghan@purdue.edu>; Jingoo Han <jingoo@vt.edu>; Jingyuan Zhang <jingyuan.zhang0929@bytedance.com>; Jisung Park <jisung.park@postech.ac.kr>; Jongryool Kim <jrkim0307@gmail.com>;
Juncheng Yang <juncheng@seas.harvard.edu>; Keith A. Smith <keith.smith@aya.yale.edu>; Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>; Mania Abdi <mania.abdi287@gmail.com>; Yue Cheng <mrz7dp@virginia.edu>; Nectarios Koziris <nkoziris@cslab.ece.ntua.gr>; Patrick P. C. Lee
<pclee@cse.cuhk.edu.hk>; Ram Kesavan <ram.kesavan@gmail.com>; Sang-Hoon Kim <sanghoonkim@ajou.ac.kr>; Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.kashyap@epfl.ch>; Somali Chaterji <schaterji@purdue.edu>; Vasiliki Kalavri <vkalavri@bu.edu>; Wook-Hee Kim <wookhee@konkuk.ac.kr>;
Wen Xia <xiawen@hit.edu.cn>; Eitan Yaakobi <yaakobi@cs.technion.ac.il>; Suli Yang <yangsuli@google.com>; Young-ri Choi <ychoi@unist.ac.kr>; Youngjae Kim <youkim@sogang.ac.kr>; Yu Liang <yulianglenny@gmail.com>; Yuvraj Patel <yuvraj.patel@ed.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[HotStorage 2026] PC Action Items: Session Chairs, Best Paper Nominations, and External Reviewers<br>
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<div class="PlainText" style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear Members of the Program Committee,<br>
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Thank you again for all your hard work and contributions to HotStorage<br>
2026. As we prepare for the workshop, we have a few remaining items:<br>
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1. Session Chair Sign-up<br>
We are looking for session chairs and would greatly appreciate your<br>
help. Please note that session chairs are expected to attend the<br>
workshop in person. If you are willing to chair a session, please add<br>
your name to your preferred session in the following spreadsheet:<br>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ydw7R0YuQGbkXHpwpAMrq-Iq1yWwI2Y6JCGy459BOPQ/edit?usp=sharing" data-outlook-id="dba5b9cb-b015-4666-959a-5f9a4fe9e0d8">https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1ydw7R0YuQGbkXHpwpAMrq-Iq1yWwI2Y6JCGy459BOPQ%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=05%7C02%7Cbingzhe.li%40utdallas.edu%7Ccafbe0f1658a4dc5c8bb08df02571292%7C8d281d1d9c4d4bf7b16e032d15de9f6c%7C0%7C0%7C639232245137948403%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uqXixrqNuG%2FxXZ1iMksehxi1ocWM1ExR7suqlY8kTv4%3D&reserved=0</a><br>
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2. Best Paper Nominations<br>
If you would like to nominate a paper for the Best Paper Award, please<br>
send us your nomination by Sunday, August 30.<br>
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3. External Reviewers<br>
Please send us the names of any external reviewers who helped with your<br>
reviews so that we can acknowledge their contributions.<br>
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Thank you again for your valuable service. We look forward to seeing you<br>
at HotStorage 2026!<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Young-ri Choi and Bryan S. Kim<br>
HotStorage 2026 Program Co-Chairs<br>
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