About Me

I am a computer science Ph.D. student in the ADSL lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Professor Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. My research interest lies in computer systems, especially distributed storage systems and operating systems.

My current research focus is on modernizing distributed replication protocols for emerging workloads, such as data-heavy replication and wide-area replication. Previously, I have studied file systems and kernel storage stack technologies for new hardware such as persistent memory.

/// Keep calm & do good research!
impl<CS> Researcher<CS> for Me {
    // TODO: This method is far from complete.
    fn week(
        &mut self,
        paper: &Paper<CS>,
        project: &mut Project<CS>,
    ) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
        let report = paper.read()?.note()?;
        let progress = project.exec()?;
        self.meeting(report, progress)?;
        Ok(())
    }
}

If you don’t mind wasting a few seconds of your life, please take a look at these rather cool open-source projects I did!

The Summerset KV-store: a distributed, replicated KV-store framework written in async Rust, mainly for state machine replication (SMR) research purposes. Summerset is generic to protocols; more protocols are actively being added.
The Hux OS kernel: a weekend operating system kernel project built to be minimal and understandable. I documented my development of Hux into a complete set of GitHub Wiki pages.

For my teaching, research, and work experience, the awards and honors I received, and my services for the research community, please check out my CV.

Work Experience

2024.05 - 2024.08

Applied Scientist Intern (Storage Systems) ↩︎

Amazon Seattle

Education

2020.08 - 20??.??	Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science ↩︎	UW-Madison
2019.09 - 2020.07	Special Student Program	MIT
2019.07 - 2019.09	Summer Research Intern ↩︎	UCLA
2016.09 - 2020.07	B.Eng. in Computer Science	ShanghaiTech

Please comment below anything you wanna say! 😉

	guanzhou.hu (at) wisc.edu
	josehu (at) cs.wisc.edu