Hi! My name is Jiyuan Zhang. I am a first-year Ph.D. student studying Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I received my M.S. degree from UIUC in 2024 and my Bachelor’s degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2022.
I am working with Professor Tianyin Xu on improving the performance and scalability of modern cloud systems, with an emphasis on topics related to memory and storage systems. I have designed several techniques for improving the efficiency and scalability of memory translation, storage hierarchies, and hardware caches. I also conducted research on topics such as software engineering and task scheduling.
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, USA
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Aug 2024 - (May 2029)
Advisor: Prof. Tianyin Xu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, USA
M.S. in Computer Science
Aug 2022 - May 2024
Advisor: Prof. Tianyin Xu
Thesis: A Software Approach to Accelerating Memory Translation for Virtualized Clouds
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ, USA
B.S. in Computer Science
Jan 2020 - May 2022
GPA: 4.0/4.0
Research Experience
You can learn more about my research here .
You can find my Curriculum Vitae here .
Teaching and Mentoring
Research Mentoring @ UIUC
Peizhe Liu (Graduate Student, UIUC)
Oct 2023 - Present
Siyuan Chai (Graduate Student, UIUC)
Aug 2022 - Apr 2025
Fan Chung (Undergraduate Student, UIUC)
Jan 2023 - Aug 2024
Yiming Du (Graduate Student, University of Rhode Island)
Aug 2022 - May 2023
Teaching Assistant @ NJIT
CS 423: Operating System Design with Prof. Tianyin Xu
Fall 2023
CS 114: Introduction to Computer Science II with Prof. Calvin M. James
Spring 2021
Experience
Research Associate Intern (Network and Distributed Systems Lab), Hewlett Packard Labs
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Graduate Research Assistant, UIUC
Jan 2024 - May 2024
Graduate Research Assistant, UIUC
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
Undergraduate Research Assistant, NJIT
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Awards and Honors
Wing Kai Cheng Fellowship, UIUC
2024 - 2025
President's Medal for Academic Excellence, NJIT
2022
Summa Cum Laude, NJIT
2022
Dean’s List, NJIT
2020 - 2022
Presentations and Talks
Direct Memory Translation for Virtualized Clouds
Cornell University
Oct 10, 2024
ACM Int'l. Conf. on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
May 1, 2024
HugeGPT: Storing Guest Page Tables on Host Huge Pages to Accelerate Address Translation
Int'l. Conf. on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Oct 23, 2023