About

My name is Yan Sun, and I am a PhD student in ECE@UIUC, advised by Prof. Nam Sung Kim.

My research focuses on hardware-software co-design with the latest Compute eXpress Link (CXL) technology.

Before that, I received a BS degree in Computer Engieering with a minor in Statistic from UIUC in 2021.

Publications

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  • M5: Mastering page migration and memory management for CXL-based tiered memory systems
    ASPLOS 2025 paper slides code
    Memory Technology OS
  • Lupin: Tolerating Partial Failures in a CXL Pod
    DIMES 2024 paper
    Memory Technology Peripheral Devices Performance Characterization
  • Making sense of using a smartnic to reduce datacenter tax from slo and tco perspectives
    IISWC 2023 paper
    NIC Peripheral Devices Performance Characterization
  • Analyzing Energy Efficiency of a Server with a SmartNIC under SLO Constraints
    ISPASS 2023 paper
    NIC Peripheral Devices Performance Characterization
  • Demystifying CXL Memory with True CXL-Ready Systems and CXL Memory Devices
    MICRO 2023 paper slides code
    Memory Technology OS
  • RAMBDA: RDMA-driven Acceleration Framework for Memory-intensive us-scale Datacenter Applications
    HPCA 2023 paper
    Accelerator Cloud Computing
  • STYX: Exploiting SmartNIC Capability to Reduce Datacenter Memory Tax
    ATC 2023 paper
    Accelerator Datacenter Tax

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