Systems Research • Startup Builder • CXL Maximalist

Yiwei Yang (VickieGPT)

Final-year systems Ph.D. at UCSC and founder at Zettai, building faster data paths for CXL, UCIe, eBPF, heterogeneous accelerators, and occasionally delightfully weird hardware-software combinations.

Final-year Ph.D. @ UCSC Founder @ Zettai Bay Area ↔ Shanghai
Yiwei Yang portrait
Current vibe Turning infrastructure into something a little faster and a lot more fun.
Open to research, systems, and startup conversations

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fn research_no_failure() -> Result<Paper, Error> {
    if !cfg!(target_os = "linux") {
        return Err(Error::UnsupportedHost);
    }

    // Boot a playful CXL topology and wait for the paper to become real.
    let qemu_args = [
        "-smp", "6",
        "-m", "16G,slots=4,maxmem=32G",
        "-machine", "q35,cxl=on",
        "-M", "cxl-fmw.0.targets.0=cxl.1,cxl-fmw.0.size=4G",
        "-object", "memory-backend-ram,id=mem0,size=8G",
        "-numa", "node,cpus=0-7,memdev=mem0,nodeid=0",
        "-object", "memory-backend-ram,id=mem1,size=8G",
        "-numa", "node,cpus=8-15,memdev=mem1,nodeid=1",
        "-device", "pxb-cxl,bus_nr=12,bus=pcie.0,id=cxl3.1",
        "-device", "cxl-rp,port=0,bus=cxl.1,id=root_port13,chassis=0,slot=2",
        "-device", "cxl-type3,bus=root_port13,memdev=cxl-mem1,lsa=cxl-lsa1,id=cxl-mem0",
        "-device", "cxl-type2,bus=root_port14,virtio-gpu-cxl,id=gpu0,gpudev=gpudev0",
        "-device", "cxl-type1,bus=root_port15,virtio-crypto-cxl,id=crypto0,cryptodev=cryptodev0",
    ];

    let output = Command::new("qemu-system-x86_64")
        .args(qemu_args)
        .output()?;

    let paper = Paper::new(output);

    while !paper.is_valid() {
        unsafe {
            asm!(
                "clflush [{ptr}]",
                ptr = in(reg) paper.iter(),
                options(nostack, preserves_flags)
            );
        }

        core::sync::atomic::fence(core::sync::atomic::Ordering::SeqCst);
    }

    Ok(paper)
}
Real CXL WASM runtime QEMU wasm + CXLMemSim shared pool

Skills

Reviewing Experience

Advising Experience

Slug-not-so-Slow HPC Team->2nd in Virtual ISC23

Kiki Zhang Microsoft->SCU Ph.D. in HCI

Zheng Cao NYU B.S.->UCM Ph.D. in System

Aibo Hu ShanghaiTech B.S.->Jump Trading

Qi Zhou Nervos->Rizin

Shri Devanand VJTI->ZettAI

Publications

The Fabric Is the Cluster Driver: Cross-Layer eBPF Policies for GPU-CXL Fabrics

July 2026
Yiwei Yang, Andi Quinn

Concordia: JIT-Compiled Persistent-Kernel Checkpointing for Fault-Tolerant LLM Inference

June 2026
Yuhang Gan, Yiwei Yang, Yuyi Li, Xiangyu Gao, Yichen Wang, Rain Jiang, Xiaoning Ding, Andi Quinn, Chen Qian

GPUOS: A GPU Operating System Primitive for Transparent Operation Fusion

April 2026
Yiwei Yang, Xiangyu Gao, Yuan Zhou, Yuhang Gan, Yusheng Zheng, Andi Quinn

DAXFS: A Lock-Free Shared Filesystem for CXL Disaggregated Memory

April 2026
Cong Wang, Yiwei Yang, Yusheng Zheng

WIO: Upload-Enabled Computational Storage on CXL SSDs

April 2026
Yiwei Yang, Yanpeng Hu, Yusheng Zheng, Estabon Ramos, Jianchang Su, Andi Quinn, Wei Zhang

CXLAimPod: CXL Memory is all you need in AI era

August 2025
Yiwei Yang, Yusheng Zheng, Yiqi Chen, Zheng Liang, Kexin Chu, Zhe Zhou, Andi Quinn, Wei Zhang

CXLMemUring: Revolutionizing Memory Access Through Compiler-Driven Heterogeneous Execution

September 2023
Yiwei Yang, Yusheng Zheng, Yuyi Li, Jianchang Su, Wei Zhang, Andi Quinn

MVVM: Deploy Your AI Agents-Securely, Efficiently, Everywhere

September 2025
Yiwei Yang, Aibo Hu, Yusheng Zheng, Brian Zhao, Xinqi Zhang, Andi Quinn

Safe and Programmable OS-Level GPU Resource Management with eBPF

April 2027
Yusheng Zheng, Tong Yu, Yiwei Yang, Minghui Jiang, Xiangyu Gao, Jianchang Su, Yanpeng Hu, Wenan Mao, Wei Zhang, Dan Williams, Andi Quinn

OCEAN: Open-source CXL Emulation at Hyperscale Architecture and Networking.

November 2026
Yiwei Yang, Mujahid Al Rafi, Kenza Bouasker, Zhen Peng, Xi Wang, Jesun Sahariar Firoz, Sayan Ghosh, Ajay Panyala, Jie Li, Daniel Wong, Dong Li, Hyeran Jeon, Kevin Barker, Nathan Tallent, Andres Marquez, Luanzheng Guo

CXLMemSim: Practical Performance Simulation and Characterization of CXL 3.0 Memory Systems

July 2026
Yiwei Yang, Pooneh Safayenikoo, Jiacheng Ma, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Andi Quinn

hetGPU: Pushing pooling into heterogeneous GPU Domain

March 2026
Yiwei Yang, Yusheng Zheng, Tong Yu, Andi Quinn

ChainIO: Bridging Disk and Network Domains with eBPF

September 2025
Zheng Cao, He Xuhang, Yanpeng Hu, Yusheng Zheng, Yiwei Yang, Jianchang Su, Wei Zhang Andi Quinn

Extending Applications Safely and Efficiently

July 2025
Yusheng Zheng, Tong Yu, Yiwei Yang, Yanpeng Hu, XiaoZheng Lai, Dan Williams, Andi Quinn

wBPF: Efficient Edge-Case Observability for CXL Pooling systems via eBPF

February 2025
Yusheng Zheng, Yu Tong, Yiwei Yang, Andi Quinn

Kgent: Kernel Extensions Large Language Model Agent

Jun 2024
Yusheng Zheng, Yiwei Yang, Maolin Chen, Andi Quinn

Attack as Defense: Characterizing Adversarial Examples using Robustness

July 2021
Zhe Zhao, Guangke Chen, Jingyi Wang, Yiwei Yang, Fu Song, Jun Sun

Talks

Open-source CXL Emulation at Hyperscale Architecture and Networking

May 2026

ChocoPy LLVM: An Undergraduate RISC-V Compiler Course Project

July 2022

Drywall: An eBPF Coherence Firewall for CXL Devices

Apr 2026

Agent with an interconnect solution

May 2026