About Me

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

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.

Work Experience

2024.05 - 2024.08

Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon S3 ↩︎

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

For my teaching experience and my services for the research community, please check out my CV.

Please comment below anything you wanna say! 😉

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