Hi, welcome to my homepage. I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student, working with my advisor Xipeng Shen in compiler research. I got my B.Sc. and M.E. from Central South University. After graduation, I spent one year in University of South Carolina at Columbia. I am a member of the CAPS group.

I am interested in anything that makes programs run faster, be it software or hardware. My current focus is on leveraging compiler techniques to speedup both high-performance and commercial codes. I am particularly interested in irregular CPU and GPU programs, dynamic program behavior analysis, and profile-guided optimizations. My research is supported by IBM CAS fellowship.

Other than computer science, I have very broad interests in many interesting things, including reading, piano, basketball and computer games. I try to make a good balance between life and work. My goal is to become a computer scientist, who knows the world well beyond computer science itself.

*** In computer science, it is well-known that top conferences are superior to top journals. Prestigious conferences usually have lower acceptance rates than prestigious journals. Many top conference papers do not go to journals, while some second-tier papers are accepted in top journals. Please see Dr. Ernst's page , his letter , the opinions from David Pattern et al., and Bertrand Meyer's article. All state that top researchers should target at top conferences in general. Unfortunately, as Dr. Ernst said, "some lesser-ranked universities evaluate faculty on the basis of journal publications".