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<span class="style6">Tianyin Xu</span>
<span class="style123">Assistant Professor
<a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/", target="_blank">Department of Computer Science</a>
(Courtesy appointment by <a href="https://ece.illinois.edu/", target="_blank">ECE</a>)
<a href="https://illinois.edu/", target="_blank">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</a>
4108 Siebel Center (<a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/about/contact-us", target="_blank">direction</a>)
tyxu at illinois dot edu || <a href="https://twitter.com/tianyin_xu", target="_blank">@tianyin_xu</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/FSEconf/status/1412086096901644292", target="_blank">huh?</a>)
Assistant: Ruth Anders (rutha at illinois dot edu)</span>
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<TD height="30" colSpan=3 class=content_title><span style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height:150%;"><span class="style121"><A name=researchint id="researchint"></A></span>
<b>$ echo <font color="#E84A27">"Join us on UIUC SysNet Slack channels: <a href="https://join.slack.com/t/uiuc-sysnet/signup", target="_blank">uiuc-sysnet.slack.com</a>."</font></b>
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<b>$ echo <font color="#E84A27">"Check out <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/about/cs-cares", target="_blank">CS CARES</a> and reach out to us, especially when you need help!"</font></b>
<br>
<b>$ echo <font color="#E84A27">"Please consider contributing to <a href="https://www.sigops.org/blog/", target="_blank">SIGOPS Blog</a>."</font></b>
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<b>$ echo <font color="#E84A27">"I'll be teaching <a href="https://cs523-uiuc.github.io/", target="_blank">CS-523 Advanced Operating Systems</a> in Spring'23."</font></b>
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<b>$ echo <font color="#E84A27">"I co-organize <a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io", target="_blank">UIUC Systems Research Seminar</a>."</font></b>
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<TD height="30" colSpan=3 class=content_title><span style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px"><span class="style121"><A name=shortbio id="shortbio"></A></span><b>$ whoami</b></span></TD>
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<p class="STYLE223">This is Tianyin, a <a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf" target="_blank">watchman</a> in the cornfields who tries to do <a href="misc/irrelevant.pdf" target="_blank">relevant</a> systems research.
More professionally, I am an <a href="https://politicsoffthegrid.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/should-assistant-college-professors-get-paid-more-than-tenured-professors/" target="_blank">ass prof</a>
in the <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Department of Computer Science</a>
at the <a href="https://illinois.edu/" target="_blank">University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)</a>.
I'm also affiliated with the <a href="https://ece.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</a> at UIUC.
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<p class="STYLE223"> Before joining UIUC, I spent a year at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/", target="_blank">Facebook</a>'s Core Systems,
working on dealing with datacenter failures and eating free food (see <a href="https://research.fb.com/blog/2021/05/visiting-scientist-tianyin-xu-university-illinois-urbana-champaign/" target="_blank">my interview by Facebook</a>).
I spent six wonderful years at <a href="http://www.sysnet.ucsd.edu/sysnet/" target="_blank">sysnet</a> at the <a href="http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/" target="_blank">University of California San Diego</a> until <a href="http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~yyzhou/" target="_blank">my rock star advisor</a> kicked me out (I wished to be a tenured grad student<sup><a href="#ref1">1</a></sup>).
I worked with <a href="http://www.netapp.com/atg/" target="_blank">NetApp</a> to study production data ontap.
I had a short experience at <a href="https://whova.com/" target="_blank">Whova</a>
where I learned dedication.
I worked in Germany at <a href="http://www.uni-goettingen.de/" target="_blank">Goettingen</a> and backpacked Europe for 1.5 years before starting my grad school.
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<p class="STYLE223">As a "<a href="http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive_print.php?comicid=1040" target="_blank">professor</a>", my meta-advice is to be serious and sincere to life and work. Winter is coming! Don't fight a fake war or someone else's war. Fight for what matters to the living or the dead.
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I am a part of <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/about/cs-cares", target="_blank">CS CARES</a>. If you need help, please don't hesitate to reach out -- you'll never walk alone.
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<p class="STYLE223"><sup><a name="ref1">1 </a></sup>I am constantly looking for such a job. Please contact me if you have or know one.</p>
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<TD height="30" colSpan=3 class=content_title><span style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px"><span class="style121"><A name=researchint id="researchint"></A></span><b>$ head research_interests</b></span></TD>
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<p class="STYLE223">The goal of my research is to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_D3d1RWBrI&t=69s" target="_blank">make computer systems reliable and secure</a>, especially those operating at the cloud and datacenter scale.
My mission is to help today's systems defend against all kinds of errors and defects, such as software bugs, configuration errors, and design flaws. I am very happy that some of our work helps improve reliability of real-world systems (check out <a href="defects.html" target="_blank">bugs</a> we detected/fixed).</p>
<p class="STYLE223">I am interested in all kinds of black magic. My view of systems research is to build the right swords to fight the dragon (not windmills).</p>
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<p class="STYLE223">One of my favorite topics is <a href="https://twitter.com/tianyin_xu/status/1387886413375496192" target="_blank">configuration management</a>; on the other hand, I have too broad interests in anything systems and often have trouble focusing.</p>
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<TD height="30" colSpan=3 class=content_title><span style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px"><span class="style121"><A name=researchint id="researchint"></A></span><b>$ ls -l <a href="pub.html">publication</a></b></span></TD>
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<p class="STYLE223">lrwxrwxrwx 1 tianyin tianyin 4 Feb 30 12:61 publication -> <a href="pub.html"><b>pub.html</b></a></p>
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<TD height="30" colSpan=3 class=content_title><span style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px"><span class="style121"><A name=ta id="ta"></A></span><b>$ cat teaching</b></span></TD>
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<p class="STYLE223">CS 598(XU): Reliability of Cloud-Scale Systems
(<a href="https://cs598txu-uiuc.github.io/fall18/" target="_blank">Fall 18</a>)
(<a href="https://cs598txu-uiuc.github.io/spring19/" target="_blank">Spring 19</a>)
(<a href="https://cs598txu-uiuc.github.io/spring22/" target="_blank">Spring 22</a>)
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<p class="STYLE223">CS 523: Advanced Operating Systems
(<a href="https://cs523-uiuc.github.io/fall19/" target="_blank">Fall 19</a>)
(<a href="https://cs523-uiuc.github.io/fall20/" target="_blank">Fall 20</a>)
(<a href="https://cs523-uiuc.github.io/fall21/" target="_blank">Fall 21</a>)
(<a href="https://cs523-uiuc.github.io/spring23/" target="_blank">Spring 23</a>)
(<a href="https://cs523-uiuc.github.io/spring24/" target="_blank">Spring 24</a>)
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<p class="STYLE223">CS 423: Operating System Design
(<a href="https://cs423-uiuc.github.io/spring20/" target="_blank">Spring 20</a>)
(<a href="https://cs423-uiuc.github.io/fall22/" target="_blank">Fall 22</a>)
(<a href="https://cs423-uiuc.github.io/fall23/" target="_blank">Fall 23</a>)
(<a href="https://cs423-uiuc.github.io/fall24/" target="_blank">Fall 24</a>)
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<p class="STYLE223">CS 591(SN): Systems Research Seminar
(<a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/spring19/" target="_blank">Spring 19</a>)
(<a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/fall19/" target="_blank">Fall 19</a>)
(<a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/spring20/" target="_blank">Spring 20</a>)
(<a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/fall20/" target="_blank">Fall 20</a>)
(<a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/spring21/" target="_blank">Spring 21</a>)
(<a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/fall21/" target="_blank">Fall 21</a>)
(<a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/spring22/" target="_blank">Spring 22</a>)
(<a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/fall22/" target="_blank">Fall 22</a>)
(<a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/spring23/" target="_blank">Spring 23</a>)
(<a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/fall23/" target="_blank">Fall 23</a>)
(<a href="https://systems-seminar-uiuc.github.io/spring24/" target="_blank">Spring 24</a>)
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">CS 591(SE): Software Engineering Seminar
(<a href="https://wiki.illinois.edu/wiki/display/SoftEng" target="_blank">Fall 19</a>)
(<a href="https://wiki.illinois.edu/wiki/display/SoftEng" target="_blank">Spring 20</a>)
(<a href="https://wiki.illinois.edu/wiki/display/SoftEng" target="_blank">Fall 20</a>)
(<a href="https://wiki.illinois.edu/wiki/display/SoftEng" target="_blank">Spring 21</a>)
(<a href="https://wiki.illinois.edu/wiki/display/SoftEng" target="_blank">Fall 21</a>)
(<a href="https://wiki.illinois.edu/wiki/display/SoftEng" target="_blank">Spring 22</a>)
(<a href="https://wiki.illinois.edu/wiki/display/SoftEng" target="_blank">Fall 22</a>)
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<TD height="30" colSpan=3 class=content_title><span style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px"><span class="style121"><A name=ha id="ha"></A></span><b>$ head <a href="award.html">awards</a></b></span></TD>
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<p class="STYLE223">2024 <a href="pub/osdi24_award_anvil.pdf" target="_blank">Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award</a> at OSDI'24 (<a href="pub/anvil.pdf" target="_blank">Anvil</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2024 C.W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (tribute to <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/news/remembering-department-head-faculty-member-charles-william-bill-gear" target="_blank">Professor C.W. Gear</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2024 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2024 (Spring) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (CS 591SN)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2023 Gilles Muller Best Artifact Award at EuroSys'23 (<a href="pub/csi-failures.pdf" target="_blank">CSI Failures</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2023 (Fall) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (CS 591SN)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2023 (Spring) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (CS 523)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2022 <a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/blogs/intel-rising-stars-awards-2022.html" target="_blank">Intel Rising Star Faculty Award</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">2022 <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/news/tianyin-xus-nsf-career-award-presents-an-innovative-avenue-focused-on-configuration-management-for-cloud-computing" target="_blank">NSF CAREER Award</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">2021 <a href="https://research.fb.com/blog/2021/05/visiting-scientist-tianyin-xu-university-illinois-urbana-champaign/" target="_blank">Facebook Academic of the Month</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">2021 Best Student Paper Award at SIGCOMM'21 (<a href="pub/cellular_reliability.pdf" target="_blank">Cellular Reliability</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2021 SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FSE'21 (<a href="pub/vet.pdf" target="_blank">Vet</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2021 SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ISSTA'21 (<a href="pub/ctest-prio.pdf" target="_blank">Ctest-prio</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2021 (Fall) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Outstanding (CS 591DS)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2020 <a href="https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/02/distributed-systems-research-award-winners/" target="_blank">Facebook Distributed Systems Research Award</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">2020 <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/news/asplos-best-paper-award-spurs-research-redesign-speed-address-translation" target="_blank">Best Paper Award</a> at ASPLOS'20 (<a href="pub/cuckoo_pt.pdf" target="_blank">ECPT</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2020 (Fall) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (CS 523)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2020 Best Paper and Best Student Paper Finalist at SC'20 (<a href="pub/kscope.pdf" target="_blank">KScope</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2019 Best Demo Award at MobiCom'19 (<a href="pub/daow.pdf" target="_blank">DAOW</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2019 (Fall) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (CS 523)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2019 (Spring) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (CS 598)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2018 (Fall) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (CS 598)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2017 <a href="https://cse.ucsd.edu/graduate/cse-department-awards" target="_blank">UCSD CSE Doctoral Award for Research</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">2016 <a href="https://cns.ucsd.edu/best-paper-award-received-at-the-osdi-2016-conference/" target="_blank">Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award</a> at OSDI'16 (<a href="pub/pcheck.pdf" target="_blank">PCheck</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2010 Erasmus Mundus LiSUM Scholarship</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2009 Best Paper Award at ICC'09 (<a href="pub/icc09.pdf" target="_blank">dtree-stream</a>)</p>
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<p class="STYLE223">Wentao and team are giving 3 talks at LPC 2024 at
<a href="pub/lpc-linux-testing.pdf" target="_blank">the Refereed Track</a>,
<a href="pub/lpc-2024-2.pdf" target="_blank">Kernel Testing & Dependability</a>,
and <a href="pub/lpc-2024-3.pdf">Safe Systems with Linux</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">Anvil and Acto are on USENIX ;login: (see
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/anvil-building-formally-verified-kubernetes-controllers" target="_blank">Anvil</a> and
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/acto-push-button-end-end-testing-operation-correctness-kubernetes-operators" target="_blank">Acto</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">Kubernetes Reliability and an Avenue to Reliable Cloud Infrastructures at IEEE Emerging Technology Reliability Roundtable</p>
<p class="STYLE223">Making Linux Fly: Towards Certified Linux Kernel at <a href="https://elisa.tech/event/elisa-seminar-making-linux-fly-towards-certified-linux-kernel/" target="_blank">the ELISA Seminar</a> and <a href="pub/lpc-linux-testing.pdf" target="_blank">Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) 2024</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="pub/srecon24americas_slides-xu.pdf" target="_blank">Cross-System Interaction Failures: Don't Fail through the Cracks</a> at <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24americas/presentation/xu" target="_blank">SREcon24 Americas</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">Acto is spotlighted by <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/news/-acto-IBM" target="_blank">CS news</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">Acto is selected as a <a href="https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/kccnceu2024/15/acto-poster-kubecon.pdf" target="_blank">solution showcase</a> at <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/schedule/" target="_blank">KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2024</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">Virtual device farm is selected as a 2024 <a href="https://www.sigmobile.org/pubs/getmobile/" target="_blank">GetMobile</a> Research Highlight article: <a href="pub/virtual-device-getmobile.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="pub/ekcfi.pdf" target="_blank">Advancing Kernel Control Flow Integrity with eBPF</a> at Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) 2023</p>
<p class="STYLE223">The Sieve team is spotlighted by <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/news/illinois-and-vmwares-collaborative-research-develops-practical-reliability-testing-techniques-for-cluster-management-controllers" target="_blank">CS news</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">Sieve is covered by <a href="https://octo.vmware.com/a-promising-new-approach-to-reliability-testing-for-cluster-management-controllers/" target="_blank">VMware Office of CTO Blog</a> and is endorsed by <a href="https://twitter.com/kitcolbert/status/1550199936477605889" target="_blank">Kit Colbert</a> (VMware CTO)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">Cozart is selected as a 2022 CACM Research Highlight article: <a href="pub/cozart-cacm.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">Sieve is selected for presentation at
<a href="https://kccncna2021.sched.com/event/lV0S?iframe=no" target="_blank">KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2021</a>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="pub/seccomp-ebpf-lpc.pdf" target="_blank">Revisiting eBPF Seccomp Filters</a> at Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) 2022</p>
<p class="STYLE223">Sam and Wenyu are spotlighted in
<a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/news/researchers-in-software-engineering-share-expertise-to-deliver-excellence" target="_blank">CS news</a>
<p class="STYLE223">YiFei is spotlighted by both
<a href="https://ece.illinois.edu/newsroom/news/yifei-zhu" target="_blank">ECE news</a>
and
<a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/news/passion-operating-systems-illinois-undergraduate-contributions-linux" target="_blank">CS news</a>
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">Draco has been upstreamed to the Linux kernel
(<a href="https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cover.1602431034.git.yifeifz2@illinois.edu/" target="_blank">RFC</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?p=1&q=yifei+seccomp&type=commits" target="_blank">code</a>)
(<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/834785/" target="_blank">LWN</a>,
<a href="https://csl.illinois.edu/news/38131" target="_blank">CSL</a>,
<a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/news/c3sr-researchers-find-real-world-impact-from-architecture-research-operating-system-security-innovation" target="_blank">IllinoisCS</a>,
<a href="https://www.c3sr.com/post/2021/20210214_draco/" target="_blank">C3SR</a>,
<a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.11-SECCOMP-Performance" target="_blank">Phoronix</a>)
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">Elastic cuckoo page table is selected as IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/news/asplos-best-paper-award-spurs-research-redesign-speed-address-translation" target="_blank">Illinois CS News on Elastic Cuckoo Page Tables</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223">Defusing the Configuration Time Bomb (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjqRi-cF3-g&t=3m20s" target="_blank">video</a>) (<a href="https://leifwickland.github.io/presentations/configBomb/#16" target="_blank">slides</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">Validated Configurations with Ciris (<a href="https://typelevel.org/blog/2017/06/21/ciris.html" target="_blank">slides</a>) (<a href="https://cir.is/docs/validation" target="_blank">manual</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">The Morning Paper's coverage of Taiji (<a href="https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/15/facebook-taiji/" target="_blank">article</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">The Morning Paper's coverage of Maelstrom (<a href="https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/24/maelstrom-mitigating-datacenter-level-disasters-by-draining-interdependent-traffic-safely-and-efficiently/" target="_blank">article</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">The Morning Paper's coverage of WebRSync (<a href="https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/02/towards-web-based-delta-synchronization-for-cloud-storage-systems/" target="_blank">article</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/research-questions/wiki/Authentication_references" target="_blank">W3C Authentication References</a> count our access-control-misconfiguration paper at CHI'17.</p>
<p class="STYLE223">The Morning Paper's coverage of PCheck (<a href="https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/11/29/early-detection-of-configuration-errors-to-reduce-failure-damage/" target="_blank">article</a>)</p>
<p class="STYLE223">It Will Never Work in Theory on our too-many-knobs paper at FSE'15 (<a href="http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/06/09/too-many-knobs.html" target="_blank">article</a>)</p>
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<p class="STYLE223">
Co-lead of Infrastructure for Trusted and Confidential Computing at <a href="https://discoveryacceleratorinstitute.grainger.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">IIDAI</a>
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">
Co-editor of <a href="https://www.sigops.org/blog/" target="_blank">SIGOPS Blog</a>
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">Area Chair on Configuration Management,
<a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/jsys/about" target="_blank">Journal of Systems Research</a>
(<a href="https://medium.com/@vijayc/a-new-journal-for-systems-research-2dbbfca6b860" target="_blank">Why JSys?</a>)
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2025
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25" target="_blank">OSDI</a>,
<a href="https://2025.eurosys.org" target="_blank">EuroSys</a>,
<a href="https://www.asplos-conference.org/asplos-2025-call-for-papers" target="_blank">ASPLOS</a>,
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi25" target="_blank">NSDI</a>,
<a href="https://hpca-conf.org/2025/" target="_blank">HPCA</a>,
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2024
<a href="https://2024.eurosys.org/" target="_blank">EuroSys</a>,
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc24" target="_blank">USENIX ATC</a>,
<a href="https://microarch.org/micro57/" target="_blank">MICRO (ERC)</a>,
<a href="https://acm-ieee-sec.org/2024/" target="_blank">SEC</a>,
<a href="https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2024/workshop/ebpf/" target="_blank">eBPF</a>,
<a href="https://sesame2024.github.io/" target="_blank">SESAME</a>,
<a href="https://sysdw24.github.io" target="_blank">SOSP DW</a>,
<a href="https://sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2024/cfpo.html" target="_blank">SOSP Poster</a>,
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2023
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi23" target="_blank">OSDI</a>,
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi23" target="_blank">NSDI</a>,
<a href="https://sysdw23.github.io/" target="_blank">SOSP DW</a>,
<a href="https://sosp2023.mpi-sws.org/cfsrc.html" target="_blank">SOSP SRC</a>,
<a href="https://sosp2023.mpi-sws.org/cfpo.html" target="_blank">SOSP Poster</a>,
<a href="https://dsn2023.dei.uc.pt/" target="_blank">DSN</a>,
<a href="https://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2023/" target="_blank">Sigmetrics</a>,
<a href="https://2023.esec-fse.org/track/fse-2023-industry" target="_blank">ESEC/FSE Industry Track</a>,
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2022
<a href="https://www.systor.org/2022/" target="_blank">SYSTOR</a>,
<a href="https://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2022/" target="_blank">Sigmetrics</a>,
<a href="https://edge-sys.github.io/2022/" target="_blank">EdgeSys</a>,
<a href="https://xxxy.gufe.edu.cn/chinasys22/index.html" target="_blank">ChinaSys</a>,
<a href="https://middleware-conf.github.io/2022/" target="_blank">Middleware</a>,
<a href="https://2022.esec-fse.org/track/fse-2022-industry" target="_blank">ESEC/FSE Industry Track</a>,
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2021
<a href="https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/" target="_blank">HotOS</a>,
<a href="https://sosp2021.mpi-sws.org/" target="_blank">SOSP (virtual platform chair)</a>,
<a href="https://2021.eurosys.org/" target="_blank">EuroSys (sponsorship co-chair)</a>,
<a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2021" target="_blank">ICSE</a>,
<a href="http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2021/call_for_src.html" target="_blank">Sigmetrics SRC</a>,
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2020
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20" target="_blank">OSDI</a>,
<a href="https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2020/" target="_blank">MobiSys</a>,
<a href="https://edge-sys.github.io/2020/submission.html" target="_blank">EdgeSys</a>,
<a href="https://2020.esec-fse.org/track/esecfse-2020-tool-demos" target="_blank">FSE Tool/Demo</a>,
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2019
<a href="https://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp19/" target="_blank">SOSP</a>,
<a href="https://icsr.zju.edu.cn/apsys2019/" target="_blank">APSys</a>,
<a href="https://seconfig.github.io/" target="_blank">SEConfig</a>,
<a href="https://edgesys19.cm.in.tum.de/" target="_blank">EdgeSys</a>
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2018
<a href="http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/EuroDW2018/" target="_blank">EuroSys DW</a>,
<a href="https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2018/workshops/edgesys18/" target="_blank">EdgeSys</a>,
<a href="http://icdcs2018.ocg.at" target="_blank">ICDCS</a>
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2017
<a href="https://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp17/src.html" target="_blank">SOSP SRC</a>
</p>
<p class="STYLE223">2015
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa15" target="_blank">USENIX LISA</a> (academic review committee)</p>
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<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://yulistic.gitlab.io/" target="_blank">Jongyul Kim</a>, Postdoc Research Fellow (Fall 2023 - now)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://marshtompsxd.github.io/" target="_blank">Xudong Sun</a>, PhD Candidate (Fall 2019 - now),
awarded <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/about/awards/graduate-fellowships-awards/yunni-and-maxine-pao-memorial-fellowship" target="_blank"><font color="#E84A27">Yunni and Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship</font></a>,
<a href="https://mavis.grainger.illinois.edu/" target="_blank"><font color="#E84A27">Mavis Future Faculty Fellow</font></a>
</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://jinghao-jia.github.io" target="_blank">Jinghao Jia</a>, PhD Candidate (Fall 2020 - now), co-advised by <a href="https://people.cs.vt.edu/djwillia/" target="_blank">Dan Williams</a>, awarded <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/about/awards/graduate-fellowships-awards/richard-t-cheng-endowed-fellowship" target="_blank"><font color="#E84A27">Richard T. Cheng Fellowship</font></a>, <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/about/awards/graduate-fellowships-awards/outstanding-teaching-assistants" target="_blank"><font color="#E84A27">Outstanding TA Award</font></a></p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://schai.me" target="_blank">Siyuan Chai</a>, PhD Candidate (Fall 2021 - now)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://yinfangchen.github.io" target="_blank">Yinfang Chen</a>, PhD Candidate (Fall 2021 - now)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://tylergu.com" target="_blank">Tyler Gu</a>, PhD Candidate (Fall 2021 - now), awarded <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/about/awards/graduate-fellowships-awards/computer-science-gene-golub-fellowship" target="_blank"><font color="#E84A27">Gene Golub Fellowship</font></a></p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://shuaiwang516.github.io" target="_blank">Shuai Wang</a>, PhD Candidate (Fall 2021 - now), co-advised by <a href="http://mir.cs.illinois.edu/marinov/" target="_blank">Darko Marinov</a></p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLMsZ20LI8" target="_blank">Alan Andrade</a>, MCS Student (Fall 2023 - now)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLMsZ20LI8" target="_blank">Zhen Tang</a>, MCS Student (Summer 2024 - now)</p>
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<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLMsZ20LI8" target="_blank">Quan Hao Ng</a>, Undergraduate Student (UIUC) (Spring 2024 - now)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLMsZ20LI8" target="_blank">Minh Phan</a>, Undergraduate Student (UIUC) (Spring 2024 - now)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-zhang-zzx" target="_blank">Zhixing (Mark) Zhang</a>, Undergraduate Student (UIUC) (Spring 2024 - now), on leave for <a href="https://pathlit.com" target="_blank">Pathlit</a> (CTO)</p>
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<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://songlkkevin.github.io" target="_blank">Linkai Song</a>, Undergraduate Student (USTC) (Summer 2024 - now)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLMsZ20LI8" target="_blank">Shurang Wu</a>, Undergraduate Student (USTC) (Summer 2024 - now)</p>
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<p class="STYLE224"># Doctors</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://wenyu.io/" target="_blank">Wenyu Wang</a>, PhD 2022, co-advised by <a href="http://taoxie.cs.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Tao Xie</a>, awarded <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/about/awards/graduate-fellowships-awards/3m-foundation-fellowship" target="_blank"><font color="#E84A27">3M Foundation Fellowship</font></a> → Meta → Stellar Cyber</p>
<p class="STYLE224"># Maesters</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-mazhar/" target="_blank">Anna Mazhar</a>, MS 2024 (thesis) → Cornell University (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://xinyulian.tech/" target="_blank">Xinyu (Alex) Lian</a>, MS 2024 (<a href="thesis/LIAN-THESIS-2024.pdf" target="_blank">thesis</a>), co-advised by <a href="http://mir.cs.illinois.edu/marinov/" target="_blank">Darko Marinov</a> → UIUC (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://pratiksampat.web.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Pratik Rajesh Sampat</a>, MS 2024 (thesis), co-advised by <a href="https://ghose.web.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Saugata Ghose</a> → AMD Research</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://jiyuan.is/" target="_blank">Jiyuan Zhang</a>, MS 2024 (<a href="thesis/ZHANG-THESIS-2024.pdf" target="_blank">thesis</a>) → UIUC (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruowen-qin-1323ab149" target="_blank">Ruowen Qin</a>, MCS 2023 → Red Hat</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://laphets.com" target="_blank">Wenqing Luo</a>, MS 2023 (<a href="thesis/LUO-THESIS-2023.pdf" target="_blank">thesis</a>), co-advised by <a href="https://aishwaryaganesan.github.io/" target="_blank">Aishwarya Ganesan</a> and <a href="https://ramalagappan.github.io/" target="_blank">Ramnatthan Alagappan</a> → Apple (Cloud Infra)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://thakkarparth007.github.io/" target="_blank">Parth Thakkar</a>, MS 2023 (<a href="thesis/THAKKAR-THESIS-2023.pdf" target="_blank">thesis</a>) → Meta (Dev Infra)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaihsun1996/" target="_blank">Kai-Hsun (Kevin) Chen</a>, M.Eng 2022 → Databricks → Anyscale</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jianyanchen2aa899154/" target="_blank">Jack Chen</a>, MS 2021 (<a href="thesis/CHEN-THESIS-2021.pdf" target="_blank">thesis</a>) → Trend Micro</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-yoo-5a5559182/" target="_blank">Andrew B. Yoo</a>, MS 2021 (<a href="thesis/YOO-THESIS-2021.pdf" target="_blank">thesis</a>), co-advised by <a href="http://mpaxos.com/" target="_blank">Shuai Mu</a>, awarded <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/news/five-cs-graduate-students-2021-siebel-scholars" target="_blank"><font color="#E84A27">Siebel Scholar</font></a> → Whova (Infra)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://chenqingrong.github.io/" target="_blank">Qingrong Chen</a>, MS 2020 (<a href="thesis/CHEN-THESIS-2020.pdf" target="_blank">thesis</a>), awarded <a href="http://www.cs.illinois.edu/news/meet-siebel-scholars-class-2020" target="_blank"><font color="#E84A27">Siebel Scholar</font></a> → Facebook (AI Infra) → ByteDance (ML Infra) → OpenAI </p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://x-czh.github.io/" target="_blank">Zhanghao Chen</a>, MCS 2020 (<a href="https://github.com/xlab-uiuc/cflow" target="_blank">project</a>) → ByteDance (Stream Computing Infra)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="http://www.elaine-ang.space/" target="_blank">Elaine Ang</a>, MS 2019 (<a href="thesis/ANG-THESIS-2019.pdf" target="_blank">thesis</a>) → Google (Spanner)</p>
<p class="STYLE224"># Bachelors</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLMsZ20LI8" target="_blank">Tingxu Ren</a> (Zhejiang University), UIUC+ SUR in SE, Summer 2024 → Tsinghua University (MS)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLMsZ20LI8" target="_blank">Saad Sher Alam</a> (LUMS), UIUC+ SUR in SE, 2023-2024 → UIUC (MS)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://moogician.github.io/" target="_blank">Hao (Tony) Wang</a> (Peking U.), UIUC+ SUR in SE, Summer 2023 co-hosted by <a href="https://mir.cs.illinois.edu/marinov" target="_blank">Darko Marinov</a> → University of California Berkeley (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/fan-chung-8637741a4/" target="_blank">Fan Chung</a>, (UIUC/NYCU), 2023-2024 → EPFL (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://irisesd.github.io/" target="_blank">Cheng Ding</a> (USTC), UIUC+ SUR in SE, 2023-2024, co-advised by <a href="https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~legunsen" target="_blank">Owolabi Legunsen</a> → University of Texas at Austin (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://zichengma.github.io/" target="_blank">Zicheng Ma</a>, BE, 2023-2024 awarded
<a href="https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/81101fb0-e3fb-012f-c5b6-0019b9e633c5-5" target="_blank"><font color="#E84A27">University Honor</font></a> → Harvard University (MS)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLMsZ20LI8" target="_blank">Peizhe Liu</a>, BE, 2023 → UIUC (MS) </p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://essoz.github.io/" target="_blank">Yuxuan (Matt) Jiang</a>, BE 2023 → University of Michigan (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://nsdi.dev/" target="_blank">Feiran (Alex) Qin</a>, (ShanghaiTech/UIUC), Fall 2022 → North Carolina State University (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://github.com/unw9527" target="_blank">Kunle Li</a>, BE 2023 → CMU (MS)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://taham0.github.io/" target="_blank">Muhammad Taha</a> (LUMS), UIUC+ SUR in SE, 2022 → Purdue University (MS)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://whentojump.xyz/">Wentao Zhang</a> (SJTU), UIUC+ SUR in SE, 2022 → UIUC (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://xinyulian.tech/" target="_blank">Xinyu (Alex) Lian</a>, BE 2022 → UIUC (MS) → UIUC (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLMsZ20LI8" target="_blank">Yicheng Lu</a>, BE 2022 → UIUC (MS)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kele/" target="_blank">Kele Huang</a> (CAS), UIUC+ SUR in SE, 2021 → Columbia University (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://fanweneddie.github.io/" target="_blank">Wen Fan</a> (USTC), UIUC+ SUR in SE, 2021 → Purdue University (PhD)</p>
<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://ece.illinois.edu/newsroom/news/yifei-zhu" target="_blank">YiFei Zhu</a>, BE 2021,
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<a href="https://ece.illinois.edu/admissions/why-ece/honors" target="_blank"><font color="#E84A27">Highest Honor</font></a> and
<a href="https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/81101fb0-e3fb-012f-c5b6-0019b9e633c5-5" target="_blank"><font color="#E84A27">University Honor</font></a> → Google (kernel)</p>
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<p class="STYLE223"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLMsZ20LI8" target="_blank">Wenjie Ma</a>, Research Scholar, 2023--2024 → University of California Berkeley (PhD)</p>
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