Felix Xiaozhu Lin

Asst. Prof.

PhD in CS

Purdue ECE

PhD in Computer Science (Rice 2014), MS in CS (Tsinghua 2008), and BS in Automation (Tsinghua 2006). Grew up in Chongqing “the city of hills”.

Research (Publication)

I care about systems software – mostly for computers which consume (10 Milliwatt, 500 Watt) of power. Today they include IoT sensors, smartphones, and edge servers.

My kenshō on systems research (2018-12) PDF

At Purdue, I work with a group of students who share interest in systems software.

Our current work bases on two premises:

1. OSes are defined by scenarios

StreamBox: A stream processing engines exploiting manycores (ATC’17) and hybrid high-bandwidth memory (ASPLOS’19).
A data store serving retrospective queries over large videos (Eurosys’19).

2. Commodity kernels (e.g. Linux) are essentially firmware

Transkernel: executing unmodified Linux drivers on microcontroller cores (preprint and HotMobile’17).
Power awareness redefined: power sandbox (Eurosys’18).

I worked on smartphone OS for my PhD, e.g. the K2 project which won an award in ASPLOS’14. Today, I continue to work on various mobile/wearable topics. See our group page for all projects.

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