Hi, I am Yulong, an incoming PhD student in Computer Science at
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. My research interests span systems and networking,
with a focus on rethinking how datacenter system software and network infrastructure
can evolve to improve performance, efficiency, and security to meet new workloads and requirements.
📄 Publications
Xkernel: Principled Performance Tunability of Operating System Kernels
Zhongjie Chen, Wentao Zhang, Yulong Tang,
Ran Shu, Fengyuan Ren, Tianyin Xu, and Jing Liu.
OSDI 2026.
🔍 Service
Artifact Evaluation Committee Member:
SOSP 2025,2026, EuroSys 2026.
🎓 Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, EPFL, Lausanne, 2026–present
M.E., Software Engineering, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 2024–2026
B.E., Network Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 2019–2023
🏀 Misc
I write occasional posts. If you are interested, you can read them
here.
I also keep a list of some of my favorite songs—feel free to give them a listen!
