Faculty

Jinyu Gu
Associate Professor

Telephone:+86 18818214992

Email:gujinyu@sjtu.edu.cn

Address:软件大楼3207

Institute:Institute of Parallel And Distributed Systems

MainPage:https://ipads.se.sjtu.edu.cn/zh/pub/members/jinyu_gu/

Brief Introduction

Research Interests: Operating System Kernels, System Security, and Machine Learning Systems.

Professional Service & Leadership:

Chair of the Project Management Committee (PMC) for Embodied AI, OpenHarmony

Director of the Kernel Laboratory, Engineering Research Center of Domain-specific Operating Systems (Ministry of Education)

Executive Committee Member, CCF Technical Committee on Open Source Development

Academic Committee Member, Joint Research Center for Aerospace Operating Systems

Publications:

Research findings have been published in top-tier conferences and journals, including SOSP, OSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, USENIX Security, NSDI, and IEEE TC.

Technology Transfer & Impact:

Research outcomes have been deployed through industry-academia collaborations in:

OpenHarmony OS

Aerospace Satellite OS

OPPO Smart Terminal OS

China Southern Power Grid’s Power Harmony OS

Community Service:

Serves as a reviewer for journals (e.g., EuroSys) and Program Committee (PC) member for international conferences (e.g., USENIX ATC).

Textbooks (Co-author):

Smart Terminal Operating Systems and OpenHarmony Practices

Operating Systems: Principles and Implementation

Honors & Awards:

"Top 10 Key Software Technology Achievements" by the Demonstration Software School Alliance

"Special Contribution Award for Top 10 Technical Challenges in Terminal Operating Systems"

OpenHarmony Leading Project Award

Student Mentorship:

Supervised students to win the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis Award and the First Prize in the National College Student Operating System Design Competition.


Education

09/2016 – 06/2021 Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

09/2012 – 06/2016 B.E. in Software Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University


Professional Experience

01/2025 – Present Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

08/2021 – 12/2024 Research Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University


Teaching Assignment

Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective (CSAPP) / Introduction to Computer Systems (ICS)

Operating Systems (CS3601, IEEE Pilot Class): 2021, 2022, 2023

Advanced Operating Systems (Graduate Course): 2022, 2023


Publications

Conference Paper:

  • [EuroSys] Xunjie Wang, Jiacheng Shi (co-first author), Zihan Zhao, Yang Yu, Zhichao Hua, Jinyu Gu +. TZ-LLM: Protecting On-Device Large Language Models with Arm TrustZone. Proceedings of the 21th European Conference on Computer Systems, Edinburgh, UK, April, 2026.

  • [USENIX NSDI] Zixuan Wang, Jinyu Gu +, Xingda Wei, Yubin Xia. OneSidedMW: Managing Disaggregated Memory Efficiently, Flexibly, and Securely with RNIC Offloading. The 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. Renton, WA, USA, May 4–6, 2026.

  • [NeurIPS] Kaijun Zhou, Xingyu Yan, Xingda Wei, Xijun Li, Jinyu Gu +. Multimodal Generation Made Efficient with Approximately Speculative Diffusion and Speculative Verification. NeurIPS 2025.

  • [SOSP] PhoenixOS: Concurrent OS-level GPU Checkpoint and Restore with Validated Speculation. Xingda Wei, Zhuobin Huang, Tianle Sun, Yingyi Hao, Rong Chen, Mingcong Han, Jinyu Gu, Haibo Chen. The 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2025.

  • [USENIX ATC] Wenxin Zheng, Bin Xu, Jinyu Gu +, Haibo Chen. SAVE: Software-Implemented Fault Tolerance for Model Inference against GPU Memory Bit Flips. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, USA, July 2025.

  • [USENIX ATC] Le Chen, Yiyang Wu, Jinyu Gu +, Yubin Xia, Haibo Chen. μEFI: A Microkernel-Style UEFI with Isolation and Transparency. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, USA, July 2025.

  • [EuroSys] A Hardware-Software Co-Design for Efficient Secure Containers. Jiacheng Shi, Yang Yu, Jinyu Gu + and Yubin Xia. The 20th ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2025.

  • [USENIX Security] Jiacheng Shi, Jinyu Gu +, Yubin Xia and Haibo Chen. Serverless Functions Made Confidential and Efficient with Split Containers. The 34th USENIX Security Symposium, Seattle, WA, USA, 2025.

  • [USENIX NSDI] Zixuan Wang, Xingda Wei, Jinyu Gu +, Hongrui Xie, Rong Chen, Haibo Chen. ODRP: On-Demand Remote Paging with Programmable RDMA. 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Carlsbad, April 28–30, 2025.

  • [ICDCS] Wentai Li, kaijun Zhou, Jiacheng Shi, Xingman Chen, Yadong Liu, Luyuan Wang, Jinyu Gu +. Understanding the IO Performance Gap between OS-level and VM-level Containers in High-Density Deployment. 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. New Jersey, USA, July 2024.

  • [OSDI] No Provisioned Concurrency: Fast RDMA-codesigned Remote Fork for Serverless Computing. Xingda Wei, Fangming Lu, Tianxia Wang, Jinyu Gu, Yuhan Yang, Rong Chen, and Haibo Chen. 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, USA, July 2023.

  • [USENIX ATCJinyu Gu, Hao Li, Wentai Li, Yubin Xia, Haibo Chen. EPK: Scalable and Efficient Memory Protection Key. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Carlsbad, CA, USA, July 2022.

  • [USENIX SecurityJinyu Gu, Bojun Zhu, Mingyu Li, Wentai Li, Yubin Xia, and Haibo Chen. A Hardware-Software Co-design for Efficient Intra-Enclave Isolation. The 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, 2022.

  • [PPoPP] Nian Liu, Jinyu Gu +, Dahai Tang, Kenli Li, Binyu Zang, Haibo Chen. Asymmetry-aware Scalable Locking. The 27th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, Seoul, Korea, 2022.

  • [ICDCS] Wentai Li, Jinyu Gu +, Nian Liu, Binyu Zang. Efficiently Recovering Stateful System Components of Multi-server Microkernels. In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2021.

  • [USENIX ATCJinyu Gu, Xinyue Wu, Wentai Li, Nian Liu, Zeyu Mi, Yubin Xia, and Haibo Chen. Harmonizing Performance and Isolation in Microkernels with Efficient Intra-kernel Isolation and Communication. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, USA, July 2020.

  • [USENIX ATCJinyu Gu, Qianqian Yu, Xiayang Wang, Zhaoguo Wang, Binyu Zang, Haibing Guan, and Haibo Chen. Pisces: a scalable and efficient persistent transactional memory. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Renton, WA, USA, July 2019.

  • [USENIX Security] Zhichao Hua, Jinyu Gu, Yubin Xia, Haibo Chen, Binyu Zang, and Haibing Guan. vTZ: Virtualizing ARM TrustZone. The 26th USENIX Security Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, August 2017.

  • [DSNJinyu Gu, Zhichao Hua, Yubin Xia, Haibo Chen, Binyu Zang, Haibing Guan, Jinming Li. Secure Live Migration of SGX Enclaves on Untrusted Cloud. The 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Denver, CO, USA, 2017.

Journal Paper:

  • [IEEE TPDS] Ziqu Yu, Jinyu Gu + (co-first author), Zijian Wu, Nian Liu and Jian Guo. HTLL: Latency-Aware Scalable Blocking Mutex. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2025.

  • [JCST] Wentai Li , Zixuan Wang, Jinyu Gu +, Yubin Xia and Binyu Zang. Harmonizing Security and Performance in Microkernel File Servers. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2025.

  • [IEEE TCJinyu Gu +, Jiacheng Shi, Haoran Su, Wentai Li, Binyu Zang, Haibin Guan, Haibo Chen. Understanding and Mitigating Twin Function Misuses in Operating System Kernel. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2023.

  • [IEEE TC] Yubin Xia, Zhichao Hua, Yang Yu, Jinyu Gu, Haibo Chen, Binyu Zang and Haibing Guan. COLONY: A Privileged Trusted Execution Environment with Extensibility. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021.

  • [JCSTJinyu Gu, Hao Li, Yubin Xia, Haibo Chen, Cheng-gang Qin, and Zheng-yu He. Unified Enclave Abstraction and Secure Enclave Migration on Heterogeneous TEE Architectures. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2021.

  • [IEEE TCJinyu Gu, Xinyue Wu, Bojun Zhu, Yubin Xia, Binyu Zang, Haibing Guan, and Haibo Chen. Enclavisor: A Hardware-software Co-design for Enclaves on Untrusted Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2020.

  • [SCIS] Zhichao Hua, Yang Yu, Jinyu Gu, Yubin Xia, Haibo Chen and Binyu Zang. TZContainer: Protecting Container from Untrusted OS with ARM TrustZone. In Proceedings of SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2020.

Chinese Journals

  • [软件学报] SPARC架构下低时延微内核进程间通信设计. 苏浩然,李文泰,古金宇+,臧斌宇,陈海波,管海兵. 2024.

  • [中国科学(信息科学)] BrickOS:面向异构硬件资源的积木式内核. 古金宇,李浩,夏虞斌,管海兵,丁佐华,赵永望,陈海波. 2024.

  • [软件学报] 基于PKS硬件特性的eBPF内存隔离机制. 李浩, 古金宇+, 夏虞斌, 臧斌宇, 陈海波. 2023.


Awards

Advisor for Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis (Top 1%), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2025

Second Prize, China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Award, 2024

Top 10 Key Software Technology Achievements, Alliance of Demonstration Software Colleges, 2024

OpenHarmony Pilot Project Lead, 2024

Excellent Faculty Advisor, National College Student Computer System Capability Competition – Operating System Design Track, 2024

Faculty Advisor, Special Innovation Award, OpenHarmony Competition Training Camp, 2024

Special Contribution Award, Top 10 Technical Challenges in Terminal Operating Systems, 2023

Grand Prize (Special Award), “Challenge Cup” National College Student Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, 2015

National Scholarship (Undergraduate: 2013, 2014, 2015; Doctoral: 2020)


Academic Service

Program Committee Member: EuroSys (2023, 2025, 2026), ATC (2025), etc.

SRC Chair: SOSP 2025 (Student Research Competition)

Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) and other journals.

Sponsorship Chair: 2025 CCF China Open Source Conference.

Judge/Evaluator: National College Student Operating System Competition (2023, 2024), OpenHarmony Student Competition, etc.