Status: ongoing
Authors: Xincheng Yang, Kyle Hale, ...Description: An ongoing project focused on detecting and verifying sharding-related correctness and performance issues in Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) systems.
Description: Involved in exploratory research on implementing and extending Apache ZooKeeper using FLX. My primary responsibilities included event-driven client–server interactions, heartbeat mechanisms, and coordination protocols. Contributed to system implementation and helped team members understand ZooKeeper internals. This work was presented as a poster at Middleware (2021).
Description: Conducted exploratory research on implementing Hadoop using FLX (Feature Language Extension for Java), a language published in Computer Networks (2007). Focused on event-driven client–server interactions and MapReduce execution via job–worker assignment.