Shuai Zhao

Shuai Zhao

Researcher in Real-Time Systems

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About

I am an associate professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China. I received both a Ph.D degree and a Ms.C degree at the University of York in 2014 and 2018, respectively, supervised by Prof. Andy Wellings and Prof. Alan Burns. From 2014 to 2018, I was working as a research associate on a range of projects at York with Prof. Iain Bate, Prof. Leandro S. Indrusiak, and Prof. Wanli Chang. Since 2022, I joined the Sun Yat-sen University as an associate professor at Robotic and Intelligence Computing Lab @SYSU, in the Department of Computer Science.

My research interests include embedded and real-time systems, operating systems and domain-specific computer languages. Specially, my interest lies in design and verification of complex real-time systems, resource sharing technology in multi/many-core systems, deterministic systems, timing sensitive networks and safety-critical programming.

Short Bio

Shuai Zhao received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of York in 2018. He is currently an associate professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China. His research interests include scheduling algorithms, multiprocessor resource sharing, schedulability analysis, and safety-critical programming languages. He can be reached at: zhaosh56@mail.sysu.edu.cn.

Services

  • I am a TPC member of RTSS ‘24, DAC’24, RTSS BP track, RTAS industrial track, Euro DSD
  • I am a frequent reviewer of RTSS, DAC, RTAS, EMSOFT, DATE, LCETS, ICCAD, CODE+ISSS, RTCAS, MICPRO, TCAD, JSA.

Teaching

  • “Compilation Theory” and “Compiler Construction” for 3rd year undergraduates.
  • “Embedded Systems” for 1st year postgraduates.

Publications

  • Zhanshang Nie, Wenbo Wang, Xuanming Liu, Yue Zhang, Zhendong Chen, Zirui Wang, Kai Huang, Shuai Zhao; “An Environment-Aware Verification Framework for LLM-Generated Robot Control Programs”, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), Verona, Italy, 2026.
  • Shuai Zhao Jieyu Jiang, Shenlin Cai, Yaowei Liang, Chen Jie, Yinjie Fang, Wei Zhang, Guoquan Zhang, Yaoyao Gu, Xiang Xiao, Wei Qin, Xiangzhen Ouyang, Wanli Chang; “Tight Cache Contention Analysis for WCET Estimation on Multicore Systems”, 46th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Boston, US, 2025.
  • Shuai Zhao, Yiyang Gao, Zhiyang Lin, Boyang Li, Xinwei Fang, Zhe Jiang, Nan Guan; “Response Time Analysis for Probabilistic DAG Tasks in Multicore Real-Time Systems”, 46th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Boston, US, 2025.
  • Nan Chen, Xiaotian Dai, Tong Cheng, Alan Burns, Iain, Bate, Shuai Zhao; “LEFT-RS: A Lock-Free Fault-Tolerant Resource Sharing Protocol for Multicore Real-Time Systems”, 46th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Boston, US, 2025 (Outstanding Paper Award)
  • Dean You, Jieyu Jiang, Xiaoxuan Wang, Yushu Du, Zhihang Tan, Wenbo Xu, Hui Wang, Jiapeng Guan, Ran Wei, Shuai Zhao, Zhe Jiang*; “MERE: Hardware-software co-design for masking cache miss latency in embedded processors”, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2025.
  • Huixuan Yi, Yuanhai Zhang, Zhiyang Lin, Haoran Chen, Yiyang Gao, Xiaotian Dai, Shuai Zhao; “A cache-aware DAG scheduling method on multicores: Exploiting node affinity and deferred executions”, Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), 2025.
  • Shuai Zhao, Hanzhi Xu, Nan Chen, Ruoxian Su, Wanli Chang; “FRAP: A Flexible Resource Accessing Protocol for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems”, 45th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), York, UK, 2024 (Outstanding Paper Award)
  • Zhe Jiang, Shuai Zhao, Ran Wei, Xin Si, Gang Chen, Nan Guan; “ROTA-I/O: Hardware/Algorithm Co-design for Real-Time I/O Control with Improved Timing Accuracy and Robustness”, 45th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), York, UK, 2024
  • Zhe Jiang; Shuai Zhao; Ran Wei; Yiyang Gao; Jing Li; “A Cache/Algorithm Co-design for Parallel Real-Time Systems with Data Dependency on Multi/Many-core System-on-Chips,” 61th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, US, 2024.
  • Shuai Zhao; Nan Chen; Yinjie Fang; Zhao Li; Wanli Chang; “A universal method for task allocation on FP-FPS multiprocessor systems with spin locks,” 60th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, US, 2023.
  • Shuai Zhao; Xiaotian Dai; Benjamin Lesage; Iain Bate; “Cache-Aware Allocation of Parallel Jobs on Multi-cores based on Learned Recency,” Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS), Dortmund, Germany, 2023, 177-187.
  • Nan Chen; Shuai Zhao; Ian Gray; Alan Burns; Siyuan Ji; Wanli Chang; “Precise response time analysis for multiple DAG tasks with intra-task priority assignment,” IEEE 29th Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), San Antonio, US, 2023.
  • Zhe Jiang; Xiaotian Dai; Ran Wei; Ian Gray; Zonghua Gu; Qingling Zhao; Shuai Zhao; “NPRC-I/O: A NoC-based Real-Time I/O System with Reduced Contention and Enhanced Predictability,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 42(12), pp. 4629-4642, 2023.
  • Shuai Zhao; Xiaotian Dai; Iain Bate; “DAG scheduling and analysis on multi-core systems by modelling parallelism and dependency,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2022, 33(12), pp. 4019-4038.
  • Nan Chen; Shuai Zhao; Ian Gray; Alan Burns; Siyuan Ji; Wanli Chang; “MSRP-FT: Reliable resource sharing on multiprocessor mixed-criticality systems,” 28th Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Milano, Italy, 2022. (Best Paper Candidate)
  • Wanli Chang; Shuai Zhao; Simon Burton; Haitong Wang; Ting Chen; Nan Chen; Neil Audsley; “Invited: Hardware/software co-synthesis and co-optimization for autonomous systems,” Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, US, 2021.
  • Zhe Jiang; Shuai Zhao; Ran Wei; Dawei Yang; Richard Paterson; Nan Guan; Yan Zhuang; Neil Audsly; “Bridging the pragmatic gaps for mixed-criticality systems in the automotive industry,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 41(4), pp. 1116-1129, 2021.
  • Shuai Zhao; Xiaotian Dai; Iain Bate; Alan Burns; Wanli Chang;“DAG scheduling and analysis on multiprocessor systems: exploitation of parallelism and dependency,” Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Houston, US, 2020.
  • Shuai Zhao; Zhe Jiang; Xiaotian Dai; Iain Bate; Ibrahim Habli; Wanli Chang; “Timing-accurate general-purpose I/O for multi-and many-core systems: scheduling and hardware support,” 57th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, US, 2020.
  • Shuai Zhao; Wanli Chang; Ran Wei; Weichen Liu; Nan Guan; Alan Burns; Andy Wellings; “Priority assignment on partitioned multiprocessor systems with shared resources,” IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2020, 70(7), pp. 1006-1018.
  • Shuai Zhao; Jorge Garrido; Ran Wei; Alan Burns; Andy Wellings; Juan A. de la Puente; “A complete run-time overhead-aware schedulability analysis for MrsP under nested resources,” Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), vol. 159, pp. 110449, 2020.
  • Xiaotian Dai; Shuai Zhao; Yu Jiang; Xun Jiao; Xiaobo Sharon Hu; Wanli Chang; “Fixed-priority scheduling and controller co-design for time-sensitive networks,” Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New York, US, 2020. (Best Paper Candidate)
  • Wanli Chang; Debayan Roy; Shuai Zhao; Anuradha Annaswamy; Samarjit Chakraborty; “CPS-oriented modeling and control of traffic signals using adaptive back pressure,” Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2020. (Best Paper Candidate)
  • Zhe Jiang; Shuai Zhao; Pan Dong; Dawei Yang; Ran Wei; Nan Guan; Neil Audsley; “Re-thinking mixed-criticality architecture for automotive industry,” 2020 IEEE 38th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Hartford, US, 2020.