About Me

I am a PhD candidate from UMass CICS, coadvised by Prof. Shiqing Ma and Prof. Juan Zhai. I earned my Master’s degree and Bachelor’s degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University. I was one of Special Class for the Gifted Young.

I’m most interested in systems. More specifically, I am interested in:

• System security.
• Emerging techniques for systems (e.g. eBPF).
• Machine learning for systems.

Contact: jinsongmao[replace with @]umass[replace with .]edu

Collaborations are welcome. I’m currently on job market. Feel free to send me an email.

News

• [2026-08] Our paper is accepted by EuroSys 2027.
• [2025-10] One paper is available on Arxiv.
• [2025-05] Qualification passed with distinction.
• [2024-03] Our paper is accepted by ASPLOS 2024.

Publication

• No Provenance Left Behind: Revisiting Reference Monitor Guarantees with Learned Kernel Scheduling
  Jinsong Mao, Benjamin E. Ujcich, Shiqing Ma
  European Conference on Computer Systems, 2027 (EuroSys 2027) [code available soon] [Arxiv version]

• Merlin: Multi-tier Optimization of eBPF Code for Performance and Compactness
  Jinsong Mao, Hailun Ding, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma
  Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2024 (ASPLOS 2024) [code][pdf]

Teaching

• TA, CS214, Rutgers University, 2023 Spring
• TA, CS314, Rutgers University, 2022 Fall

Award

• First Prize, Challenger Cup Competition of Shaanxi (2017)