Summary
Xiangyi Xu is a research engineer with a decade of experience building secure virtualization and embedded systems, currently advancing confidential computing and Arm-based trusted platforms at Huawei's Trusted Computing Lab. He designs end-to-end stacks—KVM/QEMU, RMM, ATF, KATA and OP-TEE—to enable virtCCA, confidential containers, and PCIe xPU passthrough, and has applied similar virtualization techniques to automotive hypervisors for autonomous vehicles. His background combines a PhD in electrical engineering with hands-on firmware leadership in high-speed optical modules, giving him a rare blend of applied research and production firmware expertise. Comfortable across low-level kernel, hypervisor and secure-world code, he often bridges academic ideas and industrial-grade implementations, with open work such as the virtCCA paper reflecting that translation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at University of Science and Technology of China
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), Electrical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis