Hui Lu
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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

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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). 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).

Research Focus

My research develops system software for cloud and AI infrastructure that must remain efficient, reliable, and securely isolated under production pressure. Recent projects explore secure container execution and nested virtualization, tiered memory and storage systems, container networking, and resource management for large-scale model training and inference.

Across these areas, I focus on the boundary where operating-system mechanisms meet real deployment constraints: how to move data across memory tiers without disrupting applications, how to isolate cloud-native workloads without giving up performance, and how to make emerging AI workloads use heterogeneous infrastructure more effectively.

Selected Publications

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Sponsored Projects

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

Teaching

UTA

SUNY Binghamton

Students

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