Jiayu Xiao
I am a third-year undergraduate student at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen.
I am currently an intern at Alibaba Group, advised by Zhi Zhang, working on AI infrastructure.
Previously, I was a research assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, advised by Minchen Yu.
I am interested in systems for machine learning, efficient inference, and the low-level details that make large-scale AI systems work.
I also led Chronix, a first-prize OS kernel project in the Computer System Development Capability Competition, under the guidance of Wen Xia.
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About
I'm drawn to systems where algorithms meet hardware, and to the constraints that decide whether an idea survives contact with a real machine. The solutions I admire are the ones that cut to the actual problem — through decoupling, or through reframing, rather than through force. I'd like to help shape what AI becomes, not just watch it happen.
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Selected Work
Janus: Disaggregating Attention and Experts for Scalable MoE Inference
Zhexiang Zhang, Ye Wang, Yumiao Zhao, Jiayu Xiao, Qianjing Yang, et al.
Submitted to NSDI 2027 / arXiv / PDF
JANUS disaggregates attention and MoE layers into independently provisioned GPU worker pools, couples them with adaptive two-phase communication, and uses microsecond-scale activation scheduling plus SLO-aware scaling. It improves per-GPU throughput by up to 4.7× while meeting token-level latency SLOs.
Chronix: A Multicore Monolithic Operating System
First Prize, Computer System Development Capability Competition
OS Kernel Implementation Track / Team Lead
August 2025 / Code
Chronix is a Rust multicore monolithic kernel for RISC-V 64 and LoongArch 64. Its key features include asynchronous stackless coroutines with multicore load balancing; demand loading, copy-on-write, lazy allocation, and a SLAB allocator; and a Linux-like VFS with dentry/page caches supporting Ext4, FAT32, tmpfs, procfs, and devfs. It also provides POSIX-style signals, PCI/MMIO drivers, and IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP networking. I led the team and worked on the file system, signal mechanism, and project build tooling.
Writing
On Zhihu, I write in Chinese about technical topics, my growth as an engineer / student / researcher, and ideas I am thinking through.
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