I am an Assistant Professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California Santa Cruz. Prior to that, I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University (NCSU), advised by Dr. Xipeng Shen and Dr. Yan Solihin. I have been working as a student researcher at SystemResearch@Google since 2021, where I am advised by Dr. David E. Culler.
My research interests are in computer architecture, security, and ML systems and architecture.
I have 2 openings for Ph.D. students starting in Fall 2026. Feel free to contact me at yxu314@ucsc.edu if you are interested in working with me!
News
Two papers are accepted by MICRO 2025. Congratulations to Chuanhan, Qizhong, and Xiangyue!
Our research about ML inference on serverless computing is accepted by HPDC 2025
Our research about ML inference on serverless computing is accepted by SIGMETRICS 2025
Our research about disaggregated memory key-value stores is accepted by VLDB 2025.
Selected Publications (full list)
The names of the students in my lab are underlined.
[MICRO 2025] Efficient Security Support for CXL Memory through Adaptive Incremental Offloaded (Re-)Encryption;
Chuanhan Li, Jishen Zhao, Yuanchao Xu
The 58th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2025. Acceptance rate: 20.77%
to appear
[MICRO 2025] Security and Performance Implications of GPU Cache Eviction Priority Hints;
Qizhong Wang, Xiangyue Huang, Yanan Guo, Yuanchao Xu;
The 58th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2025. Acceptance rate: 20.77%
to appear
[HPDC 2025] FluidFaaS: A Dynamic Pipelined Solution for Serverless Computing with Strong Isolation-based GPU Sharing;
Xinning Hui, Yuanchao Xu, and Xipeng Shen;
The 34th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2025.
to appear
[SIGMETRICS 2025] Exploring Function Granularity for Serverless Machine Learning Application with GPU Sharing;
Xinning Hui, Yuanchao Xu, and Xipeng Shen;
The 2025 ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2025. Acceptance rate: 18.18%
to appear
[VLDB 2025] Outback: Fast and Communication-efficient Index for Key-Value Store on Disaggregated Memory;
Yi Liu, Minghao Xie, Shouqian Shi, Yuanchao Xu, Heiner Litz, Chen Qian;
The 51st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2025.
to appear
[HPDC 2024] ESG: Pipeline-Conscious Efficient Scheduling of DNN Workflows on Serverless Platforms with Shareable GPUs;
Xinning Hui, Yuanchao Xu, Zhishan Guo, and Xipeng Shen;
The 33rd International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2024. Acceptance rate: 17.33%
to appear
[HPCA 2024] Data Enclave: A Data-Centric Trusted Execution Environment;
Yuanchao Xu, James Pangia, Chencheng Ye, Yan Solihin, and Xipeng Shen;
The 30th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2024. Acceptance rate: 18.29%
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[ASPLOS 2023] SpecPMT: Speculative Logging for Resolving Crash Consistency Overhead of Persistent Memory;
Chencheng Ye, Yuanchao Xu, Xipeng Shen, Yan Sha, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, and Yan Solihin;
The 28th ACM International Conference on Architecture Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2023.
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[HPCA 2023] Reconciling Selective Logging and Hardware Persistent Memory Transaction;
Chencheng Ye, Yuanchao Xu, Xipeng Shen, Yan Sha, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, and Yan Solihin;
The 29th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2023.
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[ISCA 2022] FFCCD: Fence-Free Crash-Consistent Concurrent Defragmentation for Persistent Memory;
Yuanchao Xu, Chencheng Ye, Yan Solihin, and Xipeng Shen;
The 49th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2022.
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[HPCA 2022] Temporal Exposure Reduction Protection for Persistent Memory;
Yuanchao Xu, Chencheng Ye, Xipeng Shen, and Yan Solihin;
The 28th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2022.
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[MICRO 2021] PCCS: Processor-Centric Contention Slowdown Model for Heterogeneous System-on-chips;
Yuanchao Xu, Mehmet Esat Belviranli, Xipeng Shen, and Jeffrey Vetter;
The 54th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2021.
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[OOPSLA 2021] UDF to SQL Translation through Compositional Lazy Inductive Synthesis;
Guoqiang Zhang, Yuanchao Xu, Xipeng Shen, and Işil Dillig;
ACM SIGPLAN Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), 2021.
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[ISCA 2021] Supporting Legacy Libraries on Non-Volatile Memory: A User-Transparent Approach;
Chencheng Ye, Yuanchao Xu, Xipeng Shen, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, and Yan Solihin;
The 48th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2021.
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[HPCA 2021] Hardware-Based Address-Centric Acceleration of Key-Value Store;
Chencheng Ye, Yuanchao Xu, Xipeng Shen, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, and Yan Solihin;
The 27th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2021.
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[ISCA 2020] Hardware-Based Domain Virtualization for Intra-Process Isolation of Persistent Memory Objects;
Yuanchao Xu, Chencheng Ye, Yan Solihin, and Xipeng Shen;
The 47th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2020.
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[ASPLOS 2020] MERR: Improving Security of Persistent Memory Objects via Efficient Memory Exposure Reduction and Randomization;
Yuanchao Xu, Yan Solihin, and Xipeng Shen;
The 25th ACM International Conference on Architecture Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2020.
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