Tianyin Xu
@tianyin_xu
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Watchman in a cornfield @IllinoisCDS @ECEILLINOIS @ACMSIGOPS
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Joined February 2010
RT @qianl_cs: Durable timeouts are a fundamental primitive for bounding the execution time of long-running workflows. Databases use query….
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RT @hengjinlp: PhD #24 - Congratulations to Dr. Revanth Reddy @gangi_official on successfully defending his amazing PhD thesis and joining….
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One of the most exciting projects on campus. The underground library is coming back strongly.
Summer Construction Spotlight: Undergraduate Library Redevelopment 🏗️📚📒. The former Undergraduate Library is being reimagined as the new home for the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, and the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and more! . 🔗: (25)
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RT @realstolz: 🚀 Excited to announce the open-source release of XSched! XSched offers multi-task scheduling for diverse XPUs without app mo….
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Dan has been doing incredibly interesting work on Actor GC. Glad that the work is recognized and presented at PLDI. Dan is excellent speaker!.
I gave a talk at PLDI '25 about the future of Actor GC in Apache Pekko - with applications to #akka #erlang and #elixir. It's the culmination of my 6+ year PhD at UIUC, and I tried to make the talk really fun and easy to follow. Check it out!!.
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RT @yaireinhorn: Heartbreaking! 💔 . The Weizmann institute - Israel’s leading research institute and one of the top leading scientific rese….
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RT @Alan_Lau: 📢📢 Submit your cool ideas to HotNets. This year’s HotNets will be hosted at College Park, MD on Nov. I will be the general ch….
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None of the fault pattern was new. But, the combination of multiple different (well understood) faults penetrated the defense in depth. How to reason about system/infra reliability in the presence of a collection of concurrent, correlated faults is an interesting problem.
Full report for yesterday’s Google outage. - not feature flagging a new code path.- null pointer crashing a binary when reading empty fields from Spanner.- remediation causing a thundering herd as there was no exponential backoff.- which required manual throttling to recover from
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RT @chhaviyadav_: Upon graduation, I paused to reflect on what my PhD had truly taught me. Was it just how to write papers, respond to brut….
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RT @DominikWinterer: 🚀 I'll be launching the Formal Methods Engineering Lab ( – and I am hiring! If you’re interes….
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Well said article by @profvjreddi on The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia. """.You don’t get applied research without basic research. You don’t get a talent pool without a talent pipeline. You don’t get scale without exploration. """.
The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia, by Professor Vijay Janapa Reddi.
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RT @adityaakella: Excited to discuss this at HotOS today! Great work led by @divytweet with colleagues from our LDOS Expedition.
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RT @JackKolokasis: Super excited to attend #HotOS25 in beautiful Banff, Canada! Huge thanks to the HotOS organizers for the travel grant. L….
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This would be a huuuge loss of @siebelschool @uofigrainger ! I'd cry if Adam leaves, but I also will really appreciate anyone who has openings for Adam and Amanda. This is a great great opportunity for any department to build up or significantly boost Systems Security Research!.
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Yay! DOCTOR @Jinghao_J from @siebelschool !. Truly outstanding work and brilliant person! . Thank you, Jinghao, for showing me the characters of a pure OS hacker, builder, and researcher! Such a privilege and I'm so extremely grateful!
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The argument that "one can have anorexia and still make do in life, so that food may not be important or key to others" is quite irrational. I'm happy for colleagues who can raise funding from other sources like industry. But, not everyone can or should do that. And, industry.
The NSF is an important institution. But the idea that it is “the” key to academic grant support is a myth. I was a prof for 15yrs (‘99-‘14). I received a total of $670K in grants from NSF. That’s $45K/yr - barely enough to support even 1 PhD student. I graduated 12 PhD students
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This's official: DR. @xu_dong_sun from @siebelschool!. Brilliant defense; brilliant research; brilliant person!. Thank you, Xudong, for what you've been doing in the past 6 years and for making me a much better person, researcher, and advisor!
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RT @ShawnZhong_: @tianyin_xu @MarcJBrooker @copyconstruct I totally agree! zpoline is well deserved for the best paper, and it nicely refle….
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Sad to see the sunset of @usenix ATC. It owns some of my favorite systems research like UVM, QEMU, DTrace, ZooKeeper, Raft, not to mention Sendmail, NFS, Kerberos, X, Tcl, etc. It loses its identity in recent years, but is still among the most hacky conferences I truly enjoy.
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