Systems Research · Cloud Infrastructure · AI Systems
Hui Lu
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
Email: hui.lu at uta.edu
Motivated students interested in systems research are welcome to contact me by email.
About
I am an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). 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 conducted research in the FRIENDS Lab under the direction of Professor Dongyan Xu.
I work on the systems behind cloud computing and AI and am particularly drawn to practical problems: How can we keep workloads isolated without slowing them down, move data without disrupting applications, and make better use of the hardware we have? These questions guide my work on memory, storage, networking, virtualization, and large-scale AI training and inference. I am the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2023)
Selected Publications
View full list- [ACM ATC 2026] Courier: Host-Transparent Direct Network I/O for Secure Containers in Cloud VMs (to appear)
- [SC 2026] Quantifying the Cost of Software-Managed Synchronization on Multi-Host CXL Memory (to appear)
- [OSDI 2026] vBOIDs: Taming Chaos via Coarse-grained Scheduling Abstraction for Containers
- [OSDI 2026] JANUS: Cross-World, Cooperative Nested Virtualization for Secure Containers
- [HPDC 2026] Scaling Attention Beyond GPUs for LLM Inference
- [EuroSys 2026] AEP: Achieving Hierarchical Fault Tolerance in DSM Through Atomic Execution Protection
- [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 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
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)
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Teaching
- CSE 3320: Operating Systems - Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
- CSE 5359/6359: Advanced Topics in Systems & Architecture - Fall 2026, Fall 2025, Fall 2024
- CSE 4372/5372: RISC Processor Design - Spring 2024
Students
Current Ph.D. Students
- Yan Wang, Fall 2025
- Yang Song, Fall 2025
- Chenfei Liao, Fall 2024
- Chengbo Zhan, Fall 2024
- Kaesi Manakkal, Fall 2023
Alumni
- Yu Sun, Ph.D. 2025
- Zhen Lin, Ph.D. 2025, Software Engineer @ ByteDance
- Jiaxin Lei, Ph.D. 2024, Assistant Professor @ Kean University