Tianyin Xu

Yiming Su, CS PhD, was recognized with a Gold Reviewer Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). ICML peer reviewers are tasked with carefully reading, assessing and providing critical feedback to authors, as well as providing an appraisal of the papers' strengths. Su, advised by CS associate professor Tianyin Xu, is part of an elite group that makes up the top 25% of the 17,749 reviewers selected for 2026. ICML is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of machine learning in AI. 

Three papers were accepted at the 2026 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), a top computer architecture conference. 

Papers with CS professors Tianyin Xu and Josep Torrellas and other groups were accepted as Honorable Mentions in the IEEE MICRO Top Picks 2026 in Computer Architecture Conferences: 

"EMT: An OS Framework for New Memory Translation Architectures” By Siyuan Chai, Jiyuan Zhang, Jongyul Kim, Alan Wang, Fan Chung, Jovan Stojkovic, Weiwei Jia, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Josep Torrellas, Tianyin Xu

In collaboration with Microsoft: "Thermal and Power Management for LLM Inference in Cloud Platforms” By Jovan Stojkovic, Chaojie Zhang, Íñigo Goiri, Esha Choukse, Haoran Qiu, Rodrigo Fonseca, Josep Torrellas, Ricardo Bianchini

At DASC 2025 PhD student Wentao Zhang co-advised by CS professors Darko Marinov and Tianyin Xu won First Place out of 239 papers at "The Best of" Conference Award for Digital Avionics Systems Conference for his first-author paper "An Open-Source Structural Coverage Tool for DO-178C Compliance" co-authored with collaborators from Boeing. Zhang has also given a series of talks with Boeing on Making Linux fly.

CS assistant professor Tianyin Xu and team have won the inaugural GenAI-accelerated TLA+ Challenge, sponsored by the TLA+ Foundation and NVIDIA. TLA+ is a formal specification language and corresponding toolchains for designing, modelling, documenting, and verifying programs, especially concurrent systems and distributed systems.

The paper "CXLfork: Fast Remote Fork over CXL Fabrics," by CS professors Tianyin Xu and Josep Torrellas, CS Postdoctoral Researcher Chloe Alverti, CS PhD students  Burak Ocalan, Shashwat Jaiswal, and ECE PhD student Stratos Psomadakis, received the ASPLOS 2025 Best Paper Award,  April 1, 2025 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Illinois computer science professor Tianyin Xu is a recipient of The Grainger College of Engineering's 2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor. Xu will be recognized formally at the Annual Engineering Awards Convocation in April.