Associate Prof. | William Wulf Faculty Fellow | UVA Computer Science | CV | Contact |
PhD (Rice ‘14); MS/BS (‘08/’06 Tsinghua). Grew up in a small midwestern town in China. Before UVA, six great years at Purdue.
Fall 2024: We are recruiting! (Recent projects) algo x sys x hw for:
I led a group of graduate/undergraduate students who are execited by building cool software stuffs.
See our group page for current students and projects.
Virginia is for lovers!
The UVA campus at sunset, with Blue Ridge mountains in the back. Credit: UVA.
Efforts on refreshing OS education (UVA CS4414/CS6456). Principles: experience-based, with modern contents, and fun. Summary: four projects including an Arm64 baremetal kernel, multicore, trusted execution, and filesystem forensics.
The first offering in Fall’20 as CS6456. Well received! Materials; student feedbacks; schedule
I care about systems software. I work with a group of students with enthusiasm in systems software. See XSEL.
Our current work bases on two premises:
My PhD work was on OS kernels for smartphones, e.g. the K2 project which won an award in ASPLOS’14. I continue to care about mobile/wearables, e.g. deep learning on them (WWW’19 & MobiCom’18).
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