Rate My Professor Yuanchao Xu

Xu has published extensively in top-tier venues including HPCA, ISCA, ASPLOS, MICRO, and HPDC. Notable publications include "Data Enclave: A Data-Centric Trusted Execution Environment" (HPCA 2024), "FFCCD: Fence-Free Crash-Consistent Concurrent Defragmentation for Persistent Memory" (ISCA 2022), "MERR: Improving Security of Persistent Memory Objects via Efficient Memory Exposure Reduction and Randomization" (ASPLOS 2020), "ESG: Pipeline-Conscious Efficient Scheduling of DNN Workflows on Serverless Platforms with Shareable GPUs" (HPDC 2024), "SpecPMT: Speculative Logging for Resolving Crash Consistency Overhead of Persistent Memory" (ASPLOS 2023), and recent works such as "LIBRA: A High-Accuracy, Cost-Aware, and Coordinated Multi-GPU Page Prefetcher" (ISCA 2026) and "CPU-Oblivious Offloading of Failure-Atomic Transactions for Disaggregated Memory" (ASPLOS 2026). His achievements include the NSF CAREER Award, the 2024 NCSU Outstanding Dissertation Award for his thesis "Data-Centric Architecture Support for Security," and the 2021 NCSU Computer Science Outstanding Research Award. Xu has given invited talks at the University of Maryland and University of Chicago, serves on program committees for ISCA 2025, HPCA 2025, and ASPLOS 2025, and instructs Computer Architecture (CSE 120) at UCSC.