Meng Xu

PhD Candidate in Computer and Information Science

Research Assistant at PRECISE lab

University of Pennsylvania

Advisor: Insup Lee and Linh Thi Xuan Phan

Email: mengxu at seas dot upenn dot edu

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Biography

I am a PhD Candidate in Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. I'm also the real-time scheduler (RTDS scheduler) maintainer for the open source Xen Project.
I received the Master of Science in Engineering in Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania in May 2013 and the Bachelor in Software Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University in July 2011.

I'm the core contributor and maintainer for the research projects RT-Xen and CARTS tool. 
RT-Xen aims to provide real-time performance guarantee for applications in virtualization environment.
CARTS tool is a compositional analysis tool for real-time systems, which can be used to compute the real-time resource requirement for virtual machines in virtualization environment.

Beyond research, I also like to push my research findings to industrial product. As a result, I contributed the Real-Time Deferrable Server (RTDS) scheduler to Xen 4.5 

I was the Teaching Assistant for the following courses:
  • CIS553/TCOM512 Networked Systems Course in 2013 spring semester.
  • CIS541 /401  Embedded Software for Life-Critical Applications in 2013 fall semester and 2014 fall semester.

Possible RA position in PRECISE lab:
If you are a Penn student and you want to do some system work (such as implement/upstream new features for Linux/Xen or implement an embedded systems) in our lab, please don't hesitate to send me an email (with your CV). Our lab may have a position for you. 

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Research Interests:

Cache management and analysis, cyber physical systems, real-time virtualization,  real-time systems, embedded systems.

Publications: 

Talks: 

  • RT-Xen: Beyond Scheduling,  Xen Developer Summit, Seattle, Aug., 2015. 
    • [Slide] [Talk]
  • RT-Xen: Real-Time Virtualization in Xen,  VMware, May, 2015. 
  • RT-Xen: Real-Time Virtualization in Xen,  Xen Developer Summit, Chicago, Aug., 2014. 
    • [Slide]

    Awards: 

     Graduate Fellowship from University of Pennsylvania  2013 - present
     Champion in the F1/10 competition at ES week 2016  2016
     CPS Week 2016 Travel Grant  2016
     Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Shaanxi Province  2011
     Computer World Scholarship   2011
     Baosteel Scholarship  2010
     National Scholarship  2009, 2010
     Outstanding Undergraduate in Research and Innovation of NPU   2010
     First-Grade Scholarship of NPU  2008, 2009,2010
     7720 Diligence Scholarship awarded by NPU  2008

    Academic Activities:

    External Reviewer, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) 2012, 2013.
    External Reviewer, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2012.
    External Reviewer, International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM) 2012.
    External Reviewer, ACM/IEEE 4th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) 2013.
    External Reviewer, 8th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES) 2013.
    Volunteer, CPSWeek 2013.

    Hobbies:

    I like playing badminton. I am currently a member of the competitive team at Penn Badminton Club. I was in our college's non-professional badminton team for four years in undergraduate. Our team won the third place twice among 16 colleges and I played for singles men and doubles men. 
    I am also into the group exercise at Penn's gym. 
    I also like other sports, such as table tennis, and the outdoor activities, such as hiking.