Qin, Zhao

qin_zhao at csail dot mit dot edu

I am currently a Postdoctoral associate at CSAIL MIT. I am a member of the Commit group and working with Professor Saman Amarasinghe. I obtained my PhD degree from NUS (National University of Singapore) and worked with Professor Weng-Fai Wong.

Projects

DynamoRIO: A Runtime Code Manipulation System
Umbra: An Efficient and Scalable Memory Shadowing Framework

Selected Publications

Practical Memory Checking with Dr. Memory. [pdf] [bibtex]
Derek Bruening, and Qin Zhao.
The International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-11), April 2011.
Dynamic Cache Contention Detection in Multi-threaded Applications. [pdf] [bibtex]
Qin Zhao, David Koh, Syed Raza, Derek Bruening, Weng-Fai Wong, and Saman Amarasinghe.
The International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE-11), March 2011.
Efficient Memory Shadowing for 64-bit Architectures. [pdf] [bibtex]
Qin Zhao, Derek Bruening, and Saman Amarasinghe.
The International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM-10), June 2010.
Umbra: Efficient and Scalable Memory Shadowing. [pdf] [bibtex] [slides]
Qin Zhao, Derek Bruening, and Saman Amarasinghe.
The International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-10), April 2010.
PetaBricks: A Language and Compiler for Algorithmic Choice. [pdf] [bibtex]
Jason Ansel, Cy Chan, Yee Lok Wong, Marek Olszewski, Qin Zhao, Alan Edelman, Saman Amarasinghe.
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI-09), June 2009.
How to do a million watchpoints: Efficient Debugging Using Dynamic Instrumentation. [pdf] [bibtex]
Qin Zhao, Rodric Rabbah, Saman Amarasinghe, Larry Rudolph, Weng-Fai Wong.
The International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC2008). , April 2008.
PiPA: Pipelined Profiling and Analysis on Multi-core Systems. [pdf] [bibtex]
Qin Zhao, Ioana Cutcutache, Weng-Fai Wong.
The International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-08), April 2008.
Ubiquitous Memory Introspection. [pdf] [bibtex]
Qin Zhao, Rodric Rabbah, Saman Amarasinghe, Larry Rudolph, Weng-Fai Wong.
The International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-07), April 2007.
DEP: Detailed Execution Profile. [pdf] [bibtex]
Qin Zhao, Joon Edward Sim, Larry Rudolph, Weng-Fai Wong.
The Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT-2006), Sep 2006.
Hunting Trojan Horses. [pdf] [bibtex]
Micha Moffie, Winnie Cheng, David Kaeli, Zhao, Qin
The 1st workshop on Architectural and system support for improving software dependability (ASID'06), Oct 2006.
TaintTrace: Efficient Flow Tracing with Dynamic Binary Rewriting. [pdf] [bibtex]
Winnie Cheng, Qin Zhao, Bei Yu, Scott Hiroshige
The 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06), Jun 2006.
Dynamic memory optimization using pool allocation and prefetching. [pdf] [bibtex]
Qin Zhao, Rodric Rabbah, Weng-Fai Wong.
SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News, 2005.

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