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.

Selected Work

JANUS system overview
Janus: Disaggregating Attention and Experts for Scalable MoE Inference

Zhexiang Zhang, Ye Wang, Yumiao Zhao, Jiayu Xiao, Qianjing Yang, et al.

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 kernel architecture
Chronix: A Multicore Monolithic Operating System

First Prize, Computer System Development Capability Competition

OS Kernel Implementation Track  /  Team Lead

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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