My name is Xin Li. I'm a
6th year Ph.d. My research focuses on memory hardware errors and its impact on
software systems. You can contact me at xin dot li at rochester dot
edu.
My name is Xin Li. I'm a
6th year Ph.d. My research focuses on memory hardware errors and its impact on
software systems. You can contact me at xin dot li at rochester dot
edu.
I am co-advised by Prof. Kai Shen and Prof. Michael Huang . Aside from the help from them, I'm pretty much on my own on my research topic.
Although I'm focusing on fault tolerance on memory for my thesis, I'm actually a "hacker" type of person. I'm reasonably good at playing with complex software systems, such as Linux kernel, typical Virtual Machine (kvm, xen) and full-system emulator (qemu). I'm pretty familiar with I/O issues thanks to the project I've done with Seagate Research. Also I'm always intrigued by rigorous mathematical works, and I'm more than happy to borrow some of the interesting math techniques into my research.
I received my B.S. in Computer Science (which was spinned off of the dept. of Mathematics some 20 years ago) from Peking University, China in 2002, ranking 9/127. I'm joining Google soon.
In my leisure time I would like to gamble, watching musical shows, and study phonetics.
I'm a very picky person about name pronunciation. I believe very person has a right to have his/her name pronouced properly. Here's some notes I write about Chinese names. Hope this helps the westerners in pronoucing my name correctly.