Irene Zhang

TLDR: AI coding agents are tools, not people.

AI coding agents (like Claude, Copilot, etc) are a popular and powerful way to build software.

Systems research prizes efficiency and performance.

The Capybara system for microsecond load-balancing with programmable switches has been accepted to SIGCOMM!

Updates on workshop publications this year!

For the last 6 months, the UW Allen School of CSE has been investigating the toxic and sexist environment in the systems and networking labs.

Our work, led by Katie Lim, on a modular architecture for NIC-attached accelerators was presented in MICRO 2024!

I recently reached a few high points in my career that coincided, not coincidentally, with some of the worst harassment of my life.

Recently, I spent some time reflecting on my 6 years at Microsoft Research.

Our work, led by Deepti Raghavan, on zero-copy serialization for Demikernel was accepted to SOSP 2023!

The research community has long predicted the death of Moore’s law and attendant growth in datacenter hardware speeds.

I’m extremely happy to announce that I will have three papers on kernel-bypass systems in SOSP 2021!

I spent the bulk of last week doing two types of service that I don’t necessarily enjoy but feel is important: reviewing SOSP papers and dealing with harassment.

Check out our paper on accelerating serialization for microsecond applications at HotOS 2021

After reviewing between 50-100 papers per year for the last few years, I’ve noticed some common problems in the papers that I review.

Check out our new paper on Persistent State Machines for NVRam to appear at OSDI 2020

Excited to see Marvin, our new memory manager for Android, at USENIX ATC.

Excited to see our paper on Meerkat, the world’s first multi-core scalable replication protocol, presented at Eurosys 2020!

The Demikernel/Catnip networking stack is now available on Github.

The Demikernel is now available open-source on GitHub.

After chatting with people at HotOS, I was inspired to write this blog post summarizing my HotOS paper.

I will be presenting Amino, Huawei’s open-source version of Sapphire, at KubeCon Europe and KubeCon China.

I’m happy to announce that our work on co-designing network congestion control and OS scheduling has been accepted to HotCloud 2019.

I’m happy to announce that our paper on the future of datacenter operating systems has been accepted to HotOS 2019.

I’m honored to have received the ACM SIGOPS Dennis M.

I’m happy to announce that my thesis won the UW CSE William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award.

Our short paper on a unified model for coherence, consistency and isolation has been accepted to PaPoC 2018.

I have been working on a theoretical paper on a unified theory of consistency, coherence and isolation, so it seemed like a good time to update my blog post on the difference.

I am very excited that my first program committees will be VEE, USENIX ATC and OSDI 2018.

I have finally finished my thesis!

My “Research for Practice” article on distributed transactions is in the recent issue of the CACM.

In the end-of-year rush, I completely missed that the ACM Queue published my invited article on distributed transactions in their “Research for Practice” series.

GeekWire selected me as their Geek of the Week, including a very nice write-up on me and my research.

The morning paper blog by Adrian Colyer recently gave a nice summary of Diamond.

I recently presented Diamond at OSDI 2016 in Savannah.

I’m excited to be attending the Rising Stars workshop at CMU in October.

The Diamond source code is now available on github and gitlab.

Our paper on the Diamond automated data management platform will appear in OSDI 2016 and our work on the Disciplined Inconsistency type system will appear at SoCC 2016.

I just attended the NCWIT Conference on Women and IT to receive honorable mention for the NCWIT Collegiate Award.

Crosscut has a great article highlighting CSE’s efforts to bring more women into computer science and keep them there.

TL;DR A consistency model only makes sense in the context of a particular system model.

After much clean-up, the TAPIR codebase is available!

TAPIR has been in the news recently!

Our paper on building consistent transactions with inconsistent replication will appear in the 25th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in Monterey, CA.

I recently co-chaired the Symposium on Potentially Computer Science (PoCSci ‘15).

I recently organized a mini-conference at CSE in the spirit of the annual Grace Hopper Conference as a celebration of women in the department.

Google has just named me one of the 2015 Anita Borg Scholars.

Having just finished yet another iteration of the TAPIR paper, I thought I would try to distill what I have learned from the project.

UW CSE has created a series of short videos showcasing research in the department and, apparently, I am CSE!

I hadn’t thought that I would blog, but since Jekyll makes it so easy, I’m feeling like I need to give it a whirl.