My name is Bodun Hu (though I usually go by Edward). I'm a PhD student at UT Austin, majoring in Computer Science. I'm fortunately to be advised by Aditya Akella at UTNS lab. I'm also working as a Student Researcher at Meta's Superintelligence Lab (MSL).
My research lies at the intersection of machine learning, operating systems, and network. I'm passionate about building high‑performance systems for ML.
I earned both my M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from UT Austin. Before starting my PhD, I worked with Christopher Rossbach in the SCEA lab, focsuing on GPU benchmarking and developing methods to enable OS kernel access to accelerators.
I've also been very fortunate to intern with Theo Jepsen and Georgios Nikolaidis at Intel. I also interned with Meta's AI and Systems Co-design team developing efficient communication collectives for LLM training under the supervision of Ching-Hsiang Chu.
Contact: bodunhu at utexas.edu
PGP key: 76F092F8CD673517
Here’s the list of publications:
- ChartMuseum: Testing Visual Reasoning Capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models, ArXiv
Liyan Tang, Grace Kim, Xinyu Zhao, Thom Lake, Wenxuan Ding, Fangcong Yin, Prasann Singhal, Manya Wadhwa, Zeyu Leo Liu, Zayne Sprague, Ramya Namuduri, Bodun Hu, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Puyuan Peng, Greg Durrett - Patchwork: A Unified Framework for RAG Serving, ArXiv
Bodun Hu*, Luis Pabon*, Saurabh Agarwawl, Aditya Akella - StitchLLM: Serving LLMs, One Block at a Time, ACL 2025
Bodun Hu, Shuozhe Li, Saurabh Agarwal, Myungjin Lee, Akshay Jajoo, Jiamin Li, Le Xu, Geon-Woo Kim, Donghyun Kim, Hong Xu, Amy Zhang, Aditya Akella - MOSEL: Inference Serving Using Dynamic Modality Selection, EMNLP 2024
Bodun Hu, Le Xu, Jeongyoon Moon, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Aditya Akella - FFN-SkipLLM: A Hidden Gem for Autoregressive Decoding with Adaptive Feed Forward Skipping, EMNLP 2024
Ajay Jaiswal, Bodun Hu, Lu Yin, Yeonju Ro, Shiwei Liu, Tianlong Chen, Aditya Aeklla - Towards a Machine Learning-Assisted Kernel with LAKE, ASPLOS 2023
Henrique Fingler, Isha Tarte, Hangchen Yu, Ariel Szekely, Bodun Hu, Aditya Akella, Christopher J. Rossbach - Altis: Modernizing GPGPU Benchmarks, ISPASS 2020
Bodun Hu, Christopher J. Rossbach
Teaching:
- Fall 2025: CS 395T: Advanced Topics in Systems and GenAI
- Fall 2024: CS 378 System For Machine Learning and Big Data
- Spring 2020: CS 378 Multicore Operating System Implementation
Service:
Reviewer: ACL 2025, ACL-SRW 2025