I’m a 0-th year Computer Science PhD pre-candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park with a strong background in operating systems, distributed systems and networking. My work focuses on building robust, observable, and self-healing infrastructures. I work with Prof. Alan Liu.

My Tech Stack

• Agentic Distributed Systems @ Order Lab (UMich CSE, Advisor: Ryan Huang)

  • Building agent-based failure mitigation for ZooKeeper/HDFS clusters.
  • Integrated fault injection (zkbench, Kazoo), metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), and recovery via HAProxy + Resilience4j, etc..

• SoftRobot Electronic Control @ HDR Lab (UMich Robotics, Advisor: Xiaonan Huang)

  • Developed motion planning, state estimation, and pose rendering for modular soft-robotic arm sections.
  • Led STM32 & Orange Pi control stack (C++/Rust): PID, dynamics, CAN/I2C networking, and PCB design.
  • Integrated PyTorch (ResNet) for control accuracy optimization; collaborated with General Motors, US patent filed in 2026.
  • Contributed demos at ICRA 2025 Workshop (Best Poster), RoboSoft 2025, ICON 2025.

💡 Interests: OS internals · Distributed systems · Networking · Reliability & Observability · Efficiency 📫 Contact: yuchenxr@umd.edu · yuchenxr@umich.edu · wesley_you@sjtu.edu.cn