Dr. Xiaotian Dai

Research Associate
Real-Time Systems Research Group (RTSRG)
University of York
York, United Kingdom
Address:
Room CSE/123
Department of Computer Science
University of York, York, UK
YO10 5GH
Email:
xiaotian.dai (at) york.ac.uk
Introduction
I am a postdoctoral research associate on the MOCHA research project working with Prof. Iain Bate and Prof. Alan Burns in the Real-Time Systems Research Group (RTSRG). The MOCHA project focuses on modelling, scheduling and allocation of complex many-core architectures that have high performance and stringent timing requirements. The project is targeted for the next-generation 5G/6G communication base stations. You can know more about MOCHA on the project website.
Before MOCHA, I worked on the H2020 DEIS project in 2019 with Prof. Tim Kelly and Dr. Ibrahim Habli. The DEIS project involves developing of model-based safety assurance language (using Structured Assurance Case Metamodel (SACM); submitted as an OMG standard) and tools that is applicable to model-based autonomous and cyber-physical systems. This project was collaborated with AVL, Siemens, General Motor and Fraunhofer.
My research is mainly focus on real-time scheduling, cyber-physical system design and anlysis with an emphasis on improving scheduling flexibility and adaptiveness. My reseach has lead to some novel scheduling and co-design methods as well as predictable hardware for system with timing requirements. I also work on timing predictability for autonomous, robotic and cyber-physical systems to ensure their safety, robustness and resilience.
Extra information:
- I maintain a conference tracking website for real-time/embedded systems.
- I have an educational blog on real-time systems to promote the basics of real-time systems.
- I am a robot enthusiast and I build robots since 2009. Check my robotic projects.
- I do landscape and city photography in my part-time: photography portfolio.
You can also find me on: [ Google Scholar | ResearchGate | LinkedIn | Twitter | GitHub ]
Biography
Xiaotian Dai is a research associate at the University of York, UK. He received a PhD degree from University of York in 2019 (with Best Thesis). He joined real-time systems group in 2015 as a PhD research student, supervised by Prof. Alan Burns. His PhD research involves cooperatively design of control system and real-time task scheduling for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), where various flexible scheduling task models are proposed and implemented to investigate the scheduling impact on control performance. He received a M.Sc. in Control Systems from the University of Sheffield in 2014, and a B.Sc. in Automatic Control in 2011. He serves as a reviewer and a PC member for many top real-time, embedded and design automation conferences.
News and Events
- (conference) June 2022: @ Ada Europe'22 - “Resilience-aware Mixed-criticality DAG Scheduling on Multi-cores for Autonomous Systems”
- (conference) June 2022: @ ACC'22 - “Discretization and Stabilization of Energy-based Controller for Period Switching Control and Flexible Scheduling”
- (service) May 2022: Invited as a PC member of DSD'22
- (service) May 2022: Invited as the co-chair of WMC workshop @ RTSS'22
- (service) Apr 2022: Invited as the co-chair of the workshop: Innovative Defense Technologies in 5G and Beyond Networks Using ML @ MONAMI'22
- (service) Feb 2022: Invited as a PC member of ECRTS'22 (Artifacts Evaluation)
- (service) Jan 2022: Invited as a PC member of RAGE'22 workshop @ DAC 2022
- (conference) Nov 2021: @ 6th Annual UK System Research Challenges Workshop — Digital Twin for Embedded & Real-Time Systems
- (service) Sep 2021: Invited as a PC member of Ada-Europe'22
- (service) May 2021: Invited as a PC member of ICESS'21
- (conference) May 2021: @ RTAS'21, May 18 - “Digital Twin for Dependable Multi-Core Real-Time Systems — Requirements and Open Challenges”
- (service) Apr 2021: RTNS'21 - invited as the Systems Session Chair
- (service) Jan 2021: RTAS'21 - invited as a PC member (Brief Industry Paper Track)
- (service) Jan 2021: Ada-Europe'21 - invited as a PC member
- (conference) Dec 2020: @ 5th Annual UK System Research Challenges Workshop, Dec 10 — Overview of MOCHA project by Dr. Iain Bate
- (conference) Dec 2020: @ RTSS'20, Dec 13 — DAG Scheduling and Analysis on Multiprocessor Systems (presented by Dr. Zhao) [Video]
- (service) Nov 2020: ICESS'20 - Resource Management session chair
- (conference) Nov 2020: @ ICCAD'20, Nov 11 — Fixed-Priority Scheduling and Controller Co-Design for Time-Sensitive Networks [Video]
- (call-for-papers) Oct 2020: RTNS'21 is calling for participate: [conference website]
- (service) Sep 2020: RTNS'21 - Invited as Publicity Chair & PC member
- (award) Apr 2020: “Best PhD Thesis Award” from the University of York
- (service) Apr 2020: ICESS'20 - Invited as a PC member
- (service) Feb 2020: DSD'20 - Invited as the Design of CPS Session Chair & PC member