Lei Xia   
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University
 
Room 2-215, Ford Engineering Design Center
2133 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208
Phone: +1-847-467-5442
Email: lxia AT northwestern DOT edu
  What is new
  • 11/19/2011: Palacios 1.3 has been released! Palacios is an open source virtual machine monitor developed as part of the V3VEE Project. Try it today by downloading here.
  About Me
I am a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University since September 2008. I work in the Prescience Lab with Prof. Peter A. Dinda. Prior to joining Northwestern, I got my master and bachelor degree from Nanjing University, China

  Curriculum Vitae and Resume
[Curriculum Vitae]
[Resume]
  Education
Ph.D Candidate, Computer Science,  Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2008-2013(expected).
M.S. in Computer Science,   Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 2007.
B.S. in Geology,   Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 2004.
  Industry Experience
Research Intern,  Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR (June, 2010 - September, 2010).
Graduate Intern,  Motorola Applied Research Center, Schaumburg, IL (June, 2009 - September, 2009).
Software Engineer Intern,   Nanda SoftTech, Nanjing, China (June, 2004 - November, 2004).
  Research Interests
I like to build computer systems. Broadly, My research interests include:
  • Virtualization
  • Operating Systems
  • Cloud Computing
  • Distributed Systems
  Projects
  • V3VEE: An Open Source Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) Framework For Modern Architectures

  • VNET/P:  High Speed/Low Latency Virtual Overlay Network to bridge Cloud and High Performance Computing

  • Virtual Passthrough I/O (VPIO): A model-based approach to improve virtualized I/O performance on commodity devices

  • Virtual WiFi: An virtualization approach for wireless network devices (Intern project at Intel Labs during Summer 2010)

  • ABSYNTH: Sensor Network Programming Systems For Non-experts
  Selected Publications <Full Publication List> <My Google Scholar Profile>

    Journals

  • Investigating Virtual Passthrough I/O on Commodity Devices.
    Lei Xia, Jack Lange, Peter Dinda and Chang Bae.
    ACM Operating Systems Review, Volume 43, Number 3, July, 2009.
    [ Paper(.pdf) ]


    • Conferences

  • VNET/P: Bridging the Cloud and High Performance Computing Through Fast Overlay Networking.
    L. Xia, Z. Cui, J. Lange, Y. Tang, P. Dinda and P. Bridges
    To appear in 21st International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'12), Delft, Netherlands, June 2012.
    [ Paper(.pdf) ]

  • Dynamic Adaptive Virtual Core Mapping to Improve Power, Energy, and Performance in Multi-socket Multicores.
    C. Bae, L. Xia, P. Dinda and J. Lange
    To appear in 21st International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'12), Delft, Netherlands, June 2012.
    [ Paper(.pdf) ]

  • Virtual WiFi: Bring Virtualization from Wired to Wireless.
    L. Xia, S. Kumar, X. Yang, P. Gopalakrishnan, Y. Liu, S. Schoenberg and X. Guo
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'11), Newport Beach, CA, March 2011.
    [ Paper(.pdf)   | Slides(.pdf) ]

  • Palacios and Kitten: New High Performance Operating Systems For Scalable Virtualized and Native Supercomputing.
    J. Lange, K. Pedretti, T. Hudson, P. Dinda, Z. Cui, L. Xia, P. Bridges, A. Gocke, S. Jaconette, M. Levenhagen and R. Brightwell
    In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'10), Atlanta, GA, April 2010.
    [ Paper(.pdf) ]

  • Towards a Multi-Model Views Security Framework.
    Lei Xia, Hao Huang and Shuying Yu
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT'07) (poster paper), Barcelona, Spain, July 2007.
    [ Paper(.pdf) ]


    • Workshops

  • A Case for Tracking and Exploiting Inter-node and Intra-node Memory Content Sharing in Virtualized Large-Scale Parallel Systems.
    L. Xia and P. Dinda
    To appear in the 6th International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC'12), in conjunction with HPDC'12, Delft, Netherlands, June 2012
    [ Paper(.pdf)   | Slides(.pdf) ]

  • Towards Virtual Passthrough I/O on Commodity Devices.
    Lei Xia, Jack Lange and Peter Dinda
    In the First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV'08), in conjunction with OSDI'08, San Diego, CA, Dec. 2008.
    [ Paper(.pdf)   | Slides(.pdf) ]

  • A Compositional Multiple Policies Operating System Security Model.
    Lei Xia, Wei Huang and Hao Huang
    In the 8th International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA'07), Jeju Island, Korea, July 2007.
    [ Paper(.pdf) ]

  Teaching
  • Teaching Assistant, EECS 441: Resource Virtualization, Winter 2011 (TA Page)
  • Teaching Assistant, EECS 211 Fundamentals of Computer Programming II, Winter 2010
  Services
  • Reviewer, HPDC'12; Scalable Computing: Theory and Practice (ScalComBook'11); IFIP Wireless Days 2011 (WD'11); ICC 2008;
  • Department Representative, McCormick Graduate Leadership Council (MGLC), Northwestern University, 2010-2011, 2011-2012
  • Organizer, System Reading Group, Department of EECS, Northwestern University, 2011
  Miscellaneous