Tianyin Xu's Homepage

$ echo "Join us on UIUC SysNet Slack channels: uiuc-sysnet.slack.com." $ echo "Check out CS CARES and reach out to us, especially when you need help!" $ echo "Please consider contributing to SIGOPS Blog." $ echo "I'll be teaching CS-523 Advanced Operating Systems in Spring'23." $ echo "I co-organize UIUC Systems Reading Group and Software Engineering Seminar."

$ whoami
	This is Tianyin, a watchman in the cornfields who tries to do relevant systems research. More professionally, I am an ass prof in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I'm also affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC. Before joining UIUC, I spent a year at Facebook's Core Systems, working on dealing with datacenter failures and eating free food (see my interview by Facebook). I spent six wonderful years at sysnet at the University of California San Diego until my rock star advisor kicked me out (I wished to be a tenured grad student¹). I worked with NetApp to study production data ontap. I had a short experience at Whova where I learned dedication (check out Whova's resources for organizing conferences). I worked in Germany and backpacked Europe for 1.5 years at Goettingen before starting my grad school. As a "professor", 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. I am a part of CS CARES. If you need help, please don't hesitate to reach out -- you'll never walk alone. ¹I am constantly looking for such a job. Please contact me if you have or know one.

$ head research_interests
	The goal of my research is to make computer systems reliable and secure, 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 bugs we detected/fixed). I am interested in all kinds of black magic. My view of systems research is to build the right swords to kill the dragon (not windmills).

$ ls -l publication
	lrwxrwxrwx 1 tianyin tianyin 4 Feb 30 12:61 publication -> pub.html

$ cat teaching
	CS 598(XU): Reliability of Cloud-Scale Systems (Fall 18) (Spring 19) (Spring 22) CS 523: Advanced Operating Systems (Fall 19) (Fall 20) (Fall 21) (Spring 23) CS 423: Operating System Design (Spring 20) (Fall 22) CS 591(SN): Systems Reading Group (Spring 19) (Fall 19) (Spring 20) (Fall 20) (Spring 21) (Fall 21) (Spring 22) (Fall 22) (Spring 23) CS 591(SE): Software Engineering Seminar (Fall 19) (Spring 20) (Fall 20) (Spring 21) (Fall 21) (Spring 22) (Fall 22)

$ head awards
	2022 Intel Rising Star Faculty Award 2022 NSF CAREER Award 2021 Facebook Academic of the Month 2021 Best Student Paper Award of SIGCOMM'21 2021 SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award of FSE'21 2021 SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award of ISSTA'21 2021 (Fall) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Outstanding (for cs591DS) 2020 Facebook Distributed Systems Research Award 2020 Best Paper Award of ASPLOS'20 2020 (Fall) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (for cs523) 2019 Best Demo Award of MobiCom'19 2019 (Fall) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (for cs523) 2019 (Spring) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (for cs598) 2018 (Fall) UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (for cs598) 2017 UCSD CSE Doctoral Award for Research 2016 Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award of OSDI'16 2010 Erasmus Mundus LiSUM Scholarship 2009 Best Paper Award at International Conference on Communications

$ cat impact
	The Sieve team is spotlighted by CS news Sieve is covered by VMware Office of CTO Blog and is endorsed by Kit Colbert (VMware CTO) Cozart is selected as a 2022 CACM Research Highlight article: pdf Sieve is selected for presentation at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Sam and Wenyu are spotlighted in CS news YiFei is spotlighted by both ECE news and CS news Draco has been upstreamed to the Linux kernel (RFC, code) (LWN, CSL, IllinoisCS, C3SR, Phoronix) Elastic cuckoo page table is selected as IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention Illinois CS News on Elastic Cuckoo Page Tables Defusing the Configuration Time Bomb (video) (slides) Validated Configurations with Ciris (slides) (manual) The Morning Paper's coverage of Taiji (article) The Morning Paper's coverage of Maelstrom (article) The Morning Paper's coverage of WebRSync (article) W3C Authentication References count our access-control-misconfiguration paper at CHI'17. The Morning Paper's coverage of PCheck (article) It Will Never Work in Theory on our too-many-knobs paper at FSE'15 (article)

$ cat services # (default=PC)
	Co-lead of Infrastructure for Trusted and Confidential Computing at IIDAI Co-editor of SIGOPS Blog Area Chair on Configuration Management, Journal of Systems Research (Why JSys?) 2023 OSDI, NSDI, DSN, Sigmetrics, ESEC/FSE Industry Track, 2022 SYSTOR, Sigmetrics, EdgeSys, ChinaSys, Middleware, ESEC/FSE Industry Track, 2021 HotOS, SOSP (virtual platform chair), EuroSys (sponsorship co-chair), ICSE, Sigmetrics SRC, 2020 OSDI, MobiSys, EdgeSys, FSE Tool/Demo, 2019 SOSP, APSys, SEConfig, EdgeSys 2018 EuroSys DW, EdgeSys, ICDCS 2017 SOSP SRC 2015 USENIX LISA (academic review committee)

$ sudo cat gang
	Xudong Sun, PhD student (Fall 2019 - now), awarded Yunni and Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship Jinghao Jia, PhD student (Fall 2020 - now), awarded Richard T. Cheng Fellowship Lilia Tang, PhD student (Fall 2020 - now), awarded Ray Ozzie Fellowship Siyuan Chai, PhD student (Fall 2021 - now) Tyler Gu, PhD student (Fall 2021 - now), awarded Gene Golub Fellowship Shuai Wang, PhD student (Fall 2021 - now), co-advised by Darko Marinov Zijie Zhao, PhD student (Fall 2022 - now), co-advised by Lingming Zhang Henry Zhu, PhD student (Fall 2022 - now), co-advised by Aishwarya Ganesan and Ramnatthan Alagappan Wenqing Luo, MS student (Fall 2021 - now), co-advised by Aishwarya Ganesan and Ramnatthan Alagappan Parth Thakkar, MS student (Fall 2021 - now) Xinyu (Alex) Lian, MS student (Fall 2022 - now), co-advised by Darko Marinov Anna Mazhar, MS student (Fall 2022 - now) Jiyuan Zhang, MS student (Fall 2022 - now) Yuxuan (Matt) Jiang, Undergrad student (ZJUI) (Summer 2021 - now) Kunle Li, Undergrad student (ZJUI) (Summer 2022 - now) Feiran (Alex) Qin, Undergrad student (UIUC/ShanghaiTech) (Fall 2022 - now) Muhammad Taha, Undergrad student (LUMS) (Summer 2022 - now)

$ sudo cat alumni # (thesis committees)
	Yinfang Chen, PhD student, currently on leave Kai-Hsun (Kevin) Chen, M.Eng 2022 → Databricks → Anyscale Wenyu Wang, PhD 2022, co-advised by Tao Xie, awarded 3M Foundation Fellowship → Meta → Stellar Cyber Chaitanya B. Bhandari, research scholar, 2021--2022 → UIUC (MS) Xinyu (Alex) Lian, BE 2022 → UIUC (MS) Yicheng Lu, BE 2022 → UIUC (MS) Kele Huang (CAS), Summer 2021 → Columbia University (PhD) Wen Fan (USTC), Summer 2021 → Purdue University (PhD) Jack Chen, MS 2021 (thesis) → Trend Micro YiFei Zhu, BE 2021, awarded Highest Honor and University Honor → Google (kernel) Sam Cheng, PhD student, co-advised by Darko Marinov → Switched to the AI/ML area after two years, in 2021 Andrew B. Yoo, MS 2021 (thesis), co-advised by Shuai Mu, awarded Siebel Scholar → Whova (Infra) Yuanliang Zhang (NUDT), visiting PhD student, 2019--2020 ↔ NUDT Zhanghao Chen, MCS 2020 (project) → ByteDance (Stream Computing Infra) Qingrong Chen, MS 2020 (thesis), awarded Siebel Scholar → Facebook (AI Infra) → ByteDance (ML Infra) Kaiyuan Zhang (UT Dallas), Summer 2020 → Purdue University (PhD) Yiming Mao (Nanjing University), Summer 2020 → UC San Diego (MS) Elaine Ang, MS 2019 (thesis) → Google (Spanner)

$ sudo cat ack
	Illinois CS, OUR, NSF, VMware, Facebook, IBM/C3SR/IIDAI, Intel, Azure, GCP, and GitHub

$ cat misc
	soccer (career); travel; rock; biking; drinking; reading; bad jokes; turtles

$ cat debts
	I owe everyone in Fall 2020 CS-523 (modulo Aditi Partap) a donut due to COVID-19; ping me and I will pay my debts.