Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia
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Shukang Zhou Department of Computer Science University of Virginia |
Biography
I am a Ph.D. student of the Department of Computer Science, University of
Virginia. Before coming to Virginia, I received my B.S. degree from the
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University (also known as Beijing
University) in 2001 and M.S. degree
from the Department of Computer Science,
University of Pittsburgh in 2004.
Research [Selected
Conferences]
I am working under Dr. Mary Lou
Soffa. I am also enjoying research advice from
Dr. Bruce R. Childers in
University of Pittsburgh. My research focuses on dynamic optimization at the
binary level. Besides dynamic optimization, I am also interested in compiler
optimization, dynamic binary translation/modification/manipulation, and virtual
execution environments.
Factors Affecting Realistic
Performance of Dynamic Optimization
Program optimization is essential for high performance in modern
computing systems, but conventional static optimization is facing more and
more challenges. Dynamic optimization is an approach to complement static
compilers by transforming an executing program at run-time. My work focuses
on a type of dynamic optimization that takes an executing native instruction
stream as input and optimizes it without requiring any preparatory compiler
phase or programmer assistance. Although such dynamic optimization seems to
have potential, performance improvement is not guaranteed. The overall goal
of my research is to develop a framework for exploring the potential
performance benefit of dynamic optimization and to use this knowledge to
develop techniques that exploit the potential.
Publications
| [Abstract] | Shukang Zhou, Bruce R. Childers, and
Mary Lou Soffa. Myth or Reality: Binary-Level Dynamic Optimization,
in submission. If you are interested in getting a copy of the paper, please send me an email. |
| [PDF] | Apala Guha, Jason D. Hiser, Naveen Kumar, Jing Yang, Min Zhao, Shukang Zhou, Bruce R. Childers, Jack W. Davidson, Kim Hazelwood, and Mary Lou Soffa. Virtual Execution Environments: Support and Tools, NSF Next Generation Software Program Workshop held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Long Beach, CA, March 2007. |
| [PDF] | Jing Yang, Shukang Zhou, and Mary Lou Soffa. Dimension: An Instrumentation Tool for Virtual Execution Environments, Second International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE '06), Ottawa, Canada, June 2006. |
| [PDF] | Jason D. Hiser, Naveen Kumar, Min Zhao, Shukang Zhou, Bruce R. Childers, Jack W. Davidson, and Mary Lou Soffa, Techniques and Tools for Dynamic Optimization, NSF Next Generation Software Workshop, during the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, April 2006. |
| [PDF] | Shukang Zhou, Bruce R. Childers, and Mary Lou Soffa, Planning for Code Buffer Management in Distributed Virtual Execution Environments, ACM/USENIX Virtual Execution Environments Conference (VEE05), Chicago, IL, June 2005. |
| [PDF] | Shukang Zhou, Bruce R. Childers, and Naveen Kumar, Profile Guided Management of Code Partitions for Embedded Systems, Conference on Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Paris, France, February 2004 (short paper). |
| [TBD] | Shukang Zhou, Bruce R. Childers, and Mary Lou Soffa. Improving Bottlenecks in Binary-Level Dynamic Optimization, in preparation. |
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