Shengjie Xu
Engineer at Huawei
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShengjie Xu is a PhD candidate in Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto (graduating June 2025) with nine years of software engineering experience focused on memory safety, program analysis, and instrumentation using LLVM. Working in Prof. David Lie’s research group, he bridges software defenses and emerging attack surfaces—implementing mitigations in software while co-designing RISC-V custom instructions and prototyping them on soft-core processors to accelerate instrumented code. He’s contributed to compiler and memory-safety R&D at Huawei Canada and balances rigorous research with practical engineering, including teaching undergraduate systems and security courses. Outside core research, he builds a niche open-source project—PrepPipe, a Python compiler that converts rich-text into visual-novel engine scripts—reflecting an unusual blend of security, compilers, and creative tooling.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Suzhou High School of Jiangsu ProvinceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
English, Chinese
Github Skills (36)
dependency-analysis10
risc-v10
cpu10
linux10
code-security10
asic10
risc10
source-code-analysis10
systemverilog-hdl10
fpga10
pinyin9
static-analysis9
abstract-interpretation9
static-analyzer9
code-analysis9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xushengj/ariane
Nov 2019 - Jul 2022
Ariane is a 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux
Contributions:23 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 8 months
risc-vbootingcpumuslriscv
PrepPipe/preppipe-python
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
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