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Lin Zhong, Ph.D.
Joseph C. Tsai Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Computer Science, Yale University

Contact
51 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511
lin.zhong AT yale DOT edu
Office: 308A Arthur K. Watson Hall


I am an experimental computer scientist and I build systems as a way to validate research hypotheses. I care about how computing and information technologies can serve people untethered, or Mobile Computing. My research is concerned with both mobile network infrastructures and devices. Lately I am interested in pushing the limits of software systems by embracing analog hardware, formal methods, and new systems programming languages. I have also developed an interest in the control system of quantum computers, which is surprisingly similar to the massive MIMO systems we have worked on.

Biosketch, Full CV

☆Postdoc, graduate and undergraduate research opportunities available in a broad range of experimental topics. Many of the opportunities are collaborative with colleagues from the NSF AI Institute and Yale Quantum Institute.


Theseus OSTheseus, an operating system written in Rust to explore OS structure and state management, is open-source here.

Hopter OSHopter, an embedded operating system also written in Rust as an alternative to FreeRTOS, is open-source here.


If you are interested in using our Argos massive MIMO systems, they are commericially available from Skylark Wireless, a starup co-founded by my former Ph.D. student Clay Shepard. They are also available as part of the POWDER testbed.

We have recently released a complete software realization of massive MIMO baseband here.


Ph.D. Alumni (and their first jobs)

  • Kevin Boos (Founder of Theseus Systems): Ph.D., 2020 (Best Paper Award, MobiSys'14).
  • Min Hong Yun (Google): Ph.D., 2018 (Best Paper Award, MobiSys'14; Distinguished Paper Finalist, NDSS'19).
  • Clayton Shepard (CTO and Co-founder of Skylark Wireless): Ph.D., 2017 (ACM SigMobile Test of Time Award 2022).
  • Robert LiKamWa (Assistant Professor, Arizona State EE & Media): Ph.D., 2016 (Best Paper Award, MobiSys'13).
  • Ardalan Amiri Sani (Assistant Professor, UC Irvine CS): Ph.D., 2015 (Best Paper Award, MobiSys'14).
  • Hang Yu (MobiSport): Ph.D., 2015.
  • Felix Xiaozhu Lin (Assistant Professor, Purdue ECE): Ph.D., 2014 (Best Paper Award, ASPLOS'14).
  • Mian Dong (Co-founder of MobiSport): Ph.D., 2013 (Best Paper Award, MobiSys'11).
  • Ahmad Rahmati (Apple): Ph.D., 2012 (Best Paper Award, MobileHCI'07).
  • Jun Yao (Assistant Professor, UMass-Amherst ECE): Ph.D., 2011.

Recent Talks

Selected Recent Publications (Full list)

  • Blindfold: Confidential memory management by untrusted operating system (NDSS 2025) (arXiv) (Distinguished Paper)
  • Prompt Cache: Modular attention reuse for low-latency inference (MLSys 2024) (arXiv) (impact: Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI)
  • Fusion Blossom: fast MWPM decoders for QEC (IEEE QCE 2023) (arXiv) (Best Paper, 1st Place, Quantum Systems Software)
  • Theseus: an experiment in operating system structure and state management (OSDI 2020) (PDF)

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