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I'm teaching in Fall 2018 a grad-level course About Me
I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of University of California, Los Angeles. I worked at Microsoft Research as a Visiting Researcher in 2017, where I created and led the development of a project that aims to build an optimizing compiler for multi-lingual data analytical pipelines, in particular, Microsoft's Scope/Cosmos. I worked at IBM T. J. Waston Research Center as a Co-op/intern from 2008 to 2011 where I led the development of a series of runtime bloat detection tools.
My research ranges from software engineering, through programming languages and compilers, to runtime/operating/distributed systems and computer architecture. My recent interest is to develop cross-layer techniques that bridge the PL and systems communities -- in particular, (1) how to use PL techniques to solve systems (especially Big Data systems) problems, and, conversely, (2) how to solve PL problems (e.g., program analysis scalability, SAT/Datalog solver parallelizability, memory energy efficiency, etc.) with systems and architectural support.
Professional
Current Projects
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Big Data over Hybrid Memories
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IoT
Usablity and Security
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Big Data Support for Big Code Analysis
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Runtime bloat detection and optimizations
Research Group
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Dr. Chenxi Wang (PostDoc Starting August 2018, Ph.D., ICT@CAS)
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Dr. Jon Eyolfson (PostDoc Starting August 2018, Ph.D., CS@Waterloo)
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Khanh Nguyen (Ph.D. student
starting Fall 2012, Google Ph.D. Fellowship, Facebook Ph.D. Fellowship
Finalist)
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Kai Wang (Ph.D. student starting
Fall 2013)
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Cheng
Cai (Ph.D. student starting Fall 2015)
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Bojun
Wang (Ph.D. student starting Fall 2016)
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John
Thorpe (Ph.D. student starting Fall 2017; REU'16; Magna Cum Laude
2017; UCI Outstanding Contribution to Research Award)
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Christian
Navasca (Ph.D. student starting Fall 2018; REU'17; Cum Laude 2018; UCI Outstanding Contribution to Research Award)
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Yuanqi Li (Ph.D. student starting Fall 2018)
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Qiqi Gu (Ph.D. student starting Fall 2018)
Alumni
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Dr. Zhiqiang Zuo (PostDoc
2015--2018; Assistant Professor at Nanjing University)
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Lu Fang (Ph.D. 2017, first
employment: Research Scientist at Facebook AI)
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Keval Vora (Ph.D. 2017, Co-advised
with Rajiv Gupta, first employment: Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser
University)
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Tim
Nguyen (B.S. 2017, first employment: Facebook)
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Aftab
Hussain (M.S. Fall 2017)
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Matthew
Hartz (B.S. 2015)
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Jianfei Hu
(M.S. 2015, first employment: Google)
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Chengxi
Li (2017 summer intern from Beckman
High, college: Berkeley CS)
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Emily
Hu (2016 summer intern from Northwood
High, college: Berkeley CS)
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Lawrence
Xu (2016 summer intern from University High,
college: Purdue CS)
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Louis
Zhang (2014 summer intern from Troy High,
college: Berkeley CS)
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Ankur
Gupta (2014 summer intern from University
High, college: Regent's Scholar at UCSD CS)
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Wendy
Wei (2013 summer intern from University High,
college: MIT CS)
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Allen
Min (2012 summer intern from Whitney High, college: UCI CS)
o Jonathon Tsai (2012 summer
intern from Whitney High,
college: UCI CS)
Teaching
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UCLA: CS 111 Operating Systems (Spring 2019)
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UCLA: CS 239 Big Data Systems (Fall 2018)
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UCI: CS 142 (b) Compiler Construction
Project (Spring 2018, Winter 2013)
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UCI: CS 142: Compilers and Interpreters (Spring
2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018)
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UCI: CS 141/CSE 141/INF 101: Concepts of Programming
Languages (Winter 2014)
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UCI: CS 295 PL research
seminar: memory consistency models (Fall 2013)
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UCI: CS 253/INF 212: Principles of program
analysis (Spring 2013)
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UCI: CS 295 dynamic
analysis research seminar (Winter 2012)
o UCI: PL reading group (Fall 2011)
Service
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ACM SIGPLAN, Information Director (2018--2021)
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ISMM'19, PC-Chair (Deadline: TBD)
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OOPSLA'19
PC (Deadline: 4/15/19)
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FEAST'18
PC (Deadline: TBD)
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OOPSLA'18
EPC (Deadline: 4/16/18)
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VEE'18 PC (Deadline:
11/29/17)
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PLDI'18 PC
(Deadline: 11/16/17)
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ASPLOS'18 ERC (Deadline: 8/11/17)
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FEAST'17 PC (Deadline:
08/04/17)
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AGP'17 PC (Deadline:
4/21/17)
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SoCalPL'17 Chair (Deadline: TBD)
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ASPLOS'17 PC (Deadline: 8/15/16)
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ISSTA'17 AEC Co-Chair
(Deadline: TBD)
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FSE'16
SRC (Deadline: July 1, 2016)
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TAPAS'16 PC (Deadline: July 8,
2016)
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ISMM'16 PC (Deadline:
Feburary 7, 2016)
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ECOOP'16 PC (Deadline: December 8, 2015)
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PLDI'15 PC (Deadline:
November 13, 2014)
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ISEC'15 PC (Deadline: September 22,
2014)
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ECOOP'15 PC (Deadline:
December 21, 2014)
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PERTEA'14 co-organizer (Deadline: April
10, 2014)
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WODA'14 PC (Deadline: Feb 21, 2014)
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PLDI'14 SRC (Deadline:
March 10, 2014)
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ISMM'14 PC (Deadline: February 12,
2014)
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PLDI'14 ERC (Deadline:
November 15, 2013)
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FSE'14 Research Demos (Deadline:
June 30, 2014)
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ICSE'14 Poster (Deadline:
January 14, 2014)
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COSMIC'13 Workshop PC
(Deadline: January 10, 2013)
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OOPSLA'13 PC (Deadline: March 28, 2013)
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OOPSLA'12
SRC and Poster (Deadline: July 09, 2012)
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PPoPP'13
Workshop and Tutorial Chair (Deadline: September 1, 2012)
Released Software
- Graspan: A
disk-based parallel graph system for dynamic transitive closure
computation
- Facade: A compiler and
runtime system for efficient Big Data systems
- Statistical
debugging based on abstraction refinement
- PerfBlower:
A performance problem amplification framework and an instrumentation
specification language
- GraphQ:
Analytical query processing based on abstraction refinement over very
large graphs
- Resurrector: A new object lifetime profiler
- Demand-driven
context-sensitive alias analysis for Java
- LeakChaser: A Java memory leak detector
- AJANA: A framework for source-code-level
analysis of AspectJ software
Why I Believe
I am a Protestant Christian. I regularly attend and help with several campus fellowships at both UCLA and UC Irvine.
- How can one be a CS professor and a Christian? (collected by George Vargese)
- I have been collecting advice for young Christian faculty (email me if you want a copy)
Contact Information
harryxu at cs dot ucla dot edu
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~harryxu
Office:
Engineering VI, Room 482
Computer Science Department
BOX 951596, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
Work: 310-825-1322
Last updated: June 8, 2018
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