Hello, World! I am a fourth-year PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis. I am working towards my PhD in the field of Real-Time Systems and Virtualization. I have started the project called RT-Xen, where we designed, implemented, and extensively evaluated a set of real time schedulers for the Xen Hypervisor. Our previous work focus on CPU intensive workload (EMSOFT’11, RTAS’12), and we plan to study I/O intensive workload, multi-core system, and distributed systems. I am also interested in case studies and performance comparison between RT-Xen and other systems. My advisors are Prof. Christopher D. Gill and Prof. Chenyang Lu.

I am originally from China and received my Bachelor’s of Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2008. After that, I worked in the State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology as a research assistant for one year, and came to WashU in 2009. I have found a great home here, all my colleagues are wonderful! The high-impact research activities, close personal attention between students and advisors, high expectations, and excellent research environment are the keys to our group’s success. Our focus is not only on system research but also on theory: theory is constrained by real-world limitations, while systems are guided by theory.