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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Awarded NSF CAREER grant (May 2025) to improve software debugging via interaction with execution artifacts
Paper 'bpftime' accepted to OSDI (March 2025), introducing a safer and more efficient interface for userspace application extension
Paper 'Pathfinder' accepted to OOPSLA '25 (February 2025), presenting representative testing to scale crash-consistency testing
Supervised first PhD graduate, Farid Zakaria (2025), whose dissertation focused on redesigning low-level system software (e.g., shared libraries, dynamic loaders)
Student Yiwei Yang presented two works-in-progress at HCDS workshop (co-located with ASPLOS/Eurosys 2025) on tracing and observability for CXL pooling systems and GPUs
Background
Transwoman from Santa Cruz, California
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
Leads SLUGLab, focusing on improving software system reliability
Co-leads the Center for Research in Systems and Storage (CRSS), working on storage systems for new workloads (e.g., machine learning) and technologies (e.g., far memory)
Research interests include debugging assistance, securing system storage, application extensibility, far-memory exploitation, shared library optimization, and Kubernetes reliability