• Virtualization
• Cloud Computing
• Distributed Systems
• High Performance Computing

• V3VEE: An Open Source Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) Framework For Modern Architectures
• VNET/P: High Speed/Low Latency Virtual Overlay Network to bridge Cloud and High Performance Computing
• Virtual WiFi: An virtualization approach for wireless network devices (Intern project at Intel Labs during Summer 2010)
• Virtual Passthrough I/O (VPIO): A model-based approach to improve virtualized I/O performance on commodity devices
• ABSYNTH: Sensor Network Programming Systems For Non-experts

Journals

• Fast VMM-based Overlay Networking for Bridging the Cloud and High Performance Computing. [paper]
  L. Xia, Z. Cui, J. Lange, Y. Tang, P. Dinda and P. Bridges.
  To appear in Cluster Computing, 2013.
  


• Investigating Virtual Passthrough I/O on Commodity Devices. [paper]
  L. Xia, J. Lange, P. Dinda and C. Bae.
  ACM Operating Systems Review, Volume 43, Number 3, July, 2009.
  

Conferences

• ConCORD: Easily Exploiting Memory Content Redundancy Through the Content-aware Service Command. [paper|talk]
  L. Xia, K. Hale and P. Dinda.
  In the 23rd ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'14), Vancouver, Canada, June 2014. (21/130=16%).


• Optimizing Overlay-based Virtual Networking Through Optimistic Interrupts and Cut-through Forwarding. [paper]
  Z. Cui, L. Xia, P. Bridges, P. Dinda and J. Lange.
  In the ACM/IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC'12) (Supercomputing), Salt Lake City, Utah, Novermber 2012.


• Shifting GEARS to Enable Guest-context Virtual Services. [paper]
  K. Hale, L. Xia and P. Dinda.
  In the 9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'12), San Jose, CA, September 2012.


• VNET/P: Bridging the Cloud and High Performance Computing Through Fast Overlay Networking. (Best Paper Nominee)  [paper|talk|poster]
  L. Xia, Z. Cui, J. Lange, Y. Tang, P. Dinda and P. Bridges.
  In Proceedings of the 21st International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'12), Delft, Netherlands, June 2012. (23/143=16.1%).


• Dynamic Adaptive Virtual Core Mapping to Improve Power, Energy, and Performance in Multi-socket Multicores. [paper]
  C. Bae, L. Xia, P. Dinda and J. Lange
  In Proceedings of the 21st International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'12), Delft, Netherlands, June 2012.


• Virtual WiFi: Bring Virtualization from Wired to Wireless. [paper|talk]
  L. Xia, S. Kumar, X. Yang, P. Gopalakrishnan, Y. Liu, S. Schoenberg and X. Guo
  In Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'11): , NewportBeach, CA, March 2011.


• Palacios and Kitten: New High Performance Operating Systems For Scalable Virtualized and Native Supercomputing. [paper]
  J. Lange, K. Pedretti, T. Hudson, P. Dinda, Z. Cui, L. Xia, P. Bridges, A. Gocke, S. Jaconette, M. Levenhagen and R. Brightwell.
  In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'10), Atlanta, GA, April 2010.(127/527=24.1%)

Workshops

• A Case for Tracking and Exploiting Inter-node and Intra-node Memory Content Sharing in Virtualized Large-Scale Parallel Systems. [paper|talk]
  L. Xia and P. Dinda
  In the 6th International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC'12), in conjunction with HPDC'12, Delft, Netherlands, June 2012.


• Towards Virtual Passthrough I/O on Commodity Devices. [paper| talk]
  L. Xia, J. Lange and P. Dinda
  In the First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV'08), in conjunction with OSDI'08, San Diego, CA, Dec. 2008.


• A Compositional Multiple Policies Operating System Security Model. [paper]
  L. Xia, W. Huang and H. Huang
  In the 8th International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA'07), Jeju Island, Korea, July 2007.

Doctoral Dissertation

• ConCORD: Tracking and Exploiting Cross-Node Memory Content Redundancy in Large-Scale Parallel Systems. [pdf]
  L. Xia
  Technical Report NWU-EECS-13-05, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, July, 2013.

• ConCORD: Easily Exploiting Memory Content Redundancy Through the Content-aware Service Command. HPDC'14, Vancouver, Canada, June 2014.pptx
• VNET/P: Bridging the Cloud and High Performance Computing Through Fast Overlay Networking. HPDC'12, Delft, Netherlands, June 2012. .pdf
• A Case for Tracking and Exploiting Inter-node and Intra-node Memory Content Sharing in Virtualized Large-Scale Parallel Systems. VTDC'12, Delft, Netherlands, June 2012. .pdf
• Virtual WiFi: Bring Virtualization from Wired to Wireless. VEE'11, NewportBeach, CA, March 2011. .pdf
• Towards Virtual Passthrough I/O on Commodity Devices. WIOV'08, San Diego, CA, December 2008. .pdf

• Teaching Assistant, EECS 441: Resource Virtualization, Winter 2011 (TA Page)
• Teaching Assistant, EECS 211 Fundamentals of Computer Programming II, Winter 2010

• External Reviewer: ICAC'13; IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking; Cluster Computing; Journal of Computer Networks; SC'12; HPDC'12; ScalComBook'11; IFIP WD'11; ICC 2008;
• Committee Member/Event Coordinator, The Association of Chinese American Scientists and Engineers-USA (ACSE), 2012-2013
• President, Nanjing University Alumni Association of Greater Chicago Area, 2011-2013
• Department Representative, McCormick Graduate Leadership Council(MGLC), Northwestern University, 2010-2011, 2011-2012
• Organizer, System Reading Group, Department of EECS, Northwestern University, 2011

• "Writing reviews for systems conferences" From Timothy Roscoe. I found this article is really helpful.