Research Interests

I work at the boundary between intelligent software and the systems that make it practical, with particular emphasis on:

  • Systems for AI: efficient, reliable runtimes for agentic and generative workloads
  • Heterogeneous Edge AI: correctness-aware placement across CPUs, iGPUs, and NPUs
  • Compiler and Runtime Optimization: reducing compilation, memory, and state-migration costs
  • Program Analysis and Systems Security: turning software fixes into reusable bug detectors
Research Experience

My current work spans edge AI systems and automated systems-security analysis. Representative projects are highlighted; see also my Google Scholar profile.

Edge AI Systems OptimizationEdge AI Systems Optimization
Advised by Prof. Yiying Zhang
Undergraduate Researcher · WukLab, UC San Diego · Jan. 2026–present

Developed a JIT NPU runtime that overlaps CPU graph compilation with NPU inference and grows the KV cache with context: 91.98% less foreground compilation time and 33.05% lower average KV memory, while preserving model quality and decoding. Cached sorted compiler dependency vectors to reduce CPU sorting time by 94.2%, and built CPU/GPU/NPU benchmarks to guide device placement.

Operating Systems for AI InferenceOperating Systems for AI Inference
Advised by Prof. Michael Swift
Honors Course Research Project · UW–Madison · Jan.–May 2026

Measured how background filesystem reads interfere with a fixed LLM inference workload: median latency increased 17.1%. Windows PerfMon showed stable working sets and page-fault counts plateauing near 29.5K, supporting shared-resource contention as the explanation rather than working-set thrashing.

LinuxGuard: AI for System SecurityLinuxGuard: AI for System Security
Advised by Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau and Dr. Vinay Banakar · The ADvanced Systems Laboratory (ADSL)
Undergraduate Researcher · UW–Madison · Jan.–Nov. 2025

Built an LLM-driven pipeline over 50K+ Linux kernel commits to generate Clang-Tidy analyzers. Clustering and compiler-feedback repair produced 4× more valid checkers at 73% precision. A full-kernel validation harness uncovered 43 long-latent bugs with an average age of 4.7 years.

ML-Guided Scheduling for Heterogeneous Compute SystemsML-Guided Scheduling for Heterogeneous Compute Systems
Coauthor; advised by Prof. Xing Hu
Undergraduate Researcher · USST · Jan. 2024–Sept. 2026

Contributed to experimental validation and performance analysis of CASH, which predicts workload–hardware affinity for CPU/GPU placement. In 5,000-task simulations using MIT Supercloud traces, the scheduler achieved 97.1% resource-matching accuracy, 46.5% lower response time, and 36.8% lower modeled energy than Meta-RHDC.

Self-Supervised Learning for Laryngoscopic Image ClassificationSelf-Supervised Learning for Laryngoscopic Image Classification
Coauthor
ICFTIC · Published 2025

Coauthored a study using BEIT-style masked image pretraining to learn from unlabeled laryngoscopic images before fine-tuning for disease classification. The paper reports 93.33% accuracy on a three-class task using a ViT-Tiny backbone with 5.06 million parameters.

Near-Infrared Tunable FiltersNear-Infrared Tunable Filters
Coauthor
Micro & Nano Letters · Published 2025

Coauthored a study of a voltage-tunable near-infrared filter combining polymer-dispersed liquid crystals with a Fabry–Perot cavity. The paper reports a tuning range of 913–969 nm and 99% transmittance at 927 nm, with a 24 nm full width at half maximum.

Publications
Figure 1: workload semantics and heterogeneous scheduling

CASH: Confidence-Calibrated Deep Feature Crossing for Classification-Aware Heterogeneous Task Scheduling

Chuanlin Jian, Yuanchen Sun, Xiangcheng Liu, Xuming Huang, Samaneh Beheshti Kashi, and Xing Hu

Computers, Materials & Continua 2026

BEIT paper figure: tokenizer, masked image modeling, and encoder pretraining

A Method for Laryngoscopic Image Classification: Leveraging Self-supervised BEIT-style Pretraining

Jie Kong, Haotian Wu, Xuming Huang, Liangjie Wu, and Xing Hu

ICFTIC 2025

Figure 1: architecture of the near-infrared tuneable filter

Near-infrared tuneable filter based on polymer dispersed liquid crystals

Ruimei Zeng, Rongbo Bi, Junyang Zhu, Xuming Huang, and Qi Wang

Micro & Nano Letters 2025


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