Systems Research • Cloud Infrastructure • ML/AI Systems
Hui Lu
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
Email: hui.lu at uta.edu
I am looking for motivated students to work with. If you are interested, please drop me an email.
Welcome
I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). My research interests span operating systems, systems virtualization, file and storage systems, computer networks, and systems performance optimization, especially in the context of cloud computing. Before joining UTA, I was an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. I received my Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, where I researched in FRIENDS Lab under the direction of Professor Dongyan Xu.
I am the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2023).
Selected Publications
View full list- [EuroSys 2026] AEP: Achieving Hierarchical Fault Tolerance in DSM Through Atomic Execution Protection (to appear)
- [ICDE 2026] DLRover-LM: LLM Pre-Training Framework with Thousands of Accelerators in AntGroup (to appear)
- [USENIX ATC 2025] LITESHIELD: Secure Containers via Lightweight, Composable Userspace μKernel Services
- [USENIX ATC 2025] DSA-2LM: A CPU-Free Tiered Memory Architecture with Intel DSA
- [VLDB 2025] mLoRA: Fine-Tuning LoRA Adapters via Highly-Efficient Pipeline Parallelism in Multiple GPUs
- [VLDB 2024] DLRover-RM: Resource Optimization for Deep Recommendation Models Training in the Cloud
- [OSDI 2024] Nomad: Non-exclusive Memory Tiering via Transactional Page Migration
- [SOSP 2023] PVM: Efficient Shadow Paging for Deploying Secure Containers in Cloud-native Environment
- [USENIX ATC 2023] p2Cache: Exploring Tiered Memory for In-Kernel File Systems Caching
- [EuroSys 2021] Parallelizing Packet Processing in Container Overlay Networks
- [EuroSys 2020] PLASMA: Programmable Elasticity for Stateful Cloud Computing Applications
- [SoCC 2020] BAOVERLAY: A Block-Accessible Overlay File System for Fast and Efficient Container Storage
Sponsored Projects
National Science Foundation (NSF)
- User-transparent Data Management for Persistence and Crash-consistency in Non-volatile Memories (2023 - 2027)
- Rethinking Virtualization in Cloud-Native Systems (2023 - 2028)
- Salvaging Commodity Operating Systems to Support Emerging Networking Technologies (2019 - 2023)