I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in the school of Information and Software Engineering. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, advised by Prof. Felix Xiaozhu Lin. My research is in the intersection of OS x Arch x PL, under the umbrella of efficiency and security.

Prior to UESTC and the facultyship, I was lucky to be awarded Top Minds from Huawei, where I had a little dabble in industry.

What I do:

• Old-fashioned, old-school OS kernels
  • an in-depth analysis of Rust-for-Linux (USENIX ATC'24, Best Paper Award (first in China), TOCS (to appear))
  • a built-from-scratch software virtual machine with an inverse guest/host paradigm (USENIX ATC'19)
  • an OS abstraction which provides energy isolation (EUROSYS'18)
• Trustworthy computing
  • device drivers which run fully inside Arm TrustZone (EUROSYS'22)
• Resource-efficient LLM
  • an elastic IO/compute pipeline for efficient transformer inference (ASPLOS'23, TMC'25)

Recently exploring:

• System support for AI security
  • LLM, computer vision
  • Embodied AI, agents
• New kernels for emerging scenarios
  • Confidential computing
  • Cloud gaming, rendering
  • Fully heterogeneous SoCs

I am always looking for motivated students who are interested in above topics (esp. in the hardcore part). If you'd like to join our group (as an undergrad intern or a graduate student), feel free to shoot me an email with your cv!