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Jun. 1, 2026
Thanks to everyone who joined our MLSys talk on ADR, an agentic detection and response system for enterprise Agentic AI security. We discussed causal chain reconstruction across prompts, tools, commands, files, and runtimes; ADR-Bench for realistic MCP-based evaluation; and cost-aware detection for production guardrails. Slides and Paper.
Jan. 26, 2026
What an incredible way to close out January: MLSys (Agentic AI security) and ICLR (on-device LLMs) acceptances on the same day, on top of an NSDI acceptance last December. Huge thanks to our collaborators!
Apr. 26, 2024
I'm happy to share that I'm starting a new position as Staff Software Engineer at Uber! After an incredible 3.5 years of growth and learning at Alibaba, I'm ready to take on this exciting new role.

Selected Papers

Please check Google Scholar for all papers and patents (2000+ citations). [BibTeX]

ADR: An Agentic Detection System for Enterprise Agentic AI Security
Chenning Li, Pan Hu*, Justin Xu, Baris Ozbas, Olivia Liu, Caroline Van, Manxue Li, Wei Zhou, Mohammad Alizadeh, Pengyu Zhang, KK Sriramadhesikan, Ming Zhang
MLSys 2026
Paper
* Corresponding author
AnyPro: Preference-Preserving Anycast Optimization based on Strategic AS-Path Prepending
Minyuan Zhou, Yuning Chen, Jiaqi Zheng, Yifei Xu, Pan Hu, Yongping Tang, Wendong Yin, Jie Lin, Qingyan Yu, Yuanchao Su, Guihai Chen, Wanchun Dou, Songwu Lu, Wan Du
NSDI 2026
Paper
Roaming Free in the VR World with MP2
Yifei Xu, Xumiao Zhang, Yuning Chen, Pan Hu*, Xuan Zeng, Zhilong Zheng, Xianshang Lin, Yanmei Liu, Songwu Lu, Z. Morley Mao, Wan Du, Dennis Cai, Ennan Zhai, Yunfei Ma
USENIX ATC 2025
Paper
* Corresponding author
CloudEval-YAML: A Practical Benchmark for Cloud Configuration Generation
Yifei Xu, Yuning Chen, Xumiao Zhang, Xianshang Lin, Pan Hu*, Yunfei Ma, Songwu Lu, Wan Du, Z. Morley Mao, Ennan Zhai, Dennis Cai
MLSys 2024
Code Paper
* Corresponding author
CloudEval-YAML: A Realistic and Scalable Benchmark for Cloud Configuration Generation
Yifei Xu, Yuning Chen, Xumiao Zhang, Xianshang Lin, Pan Hu*, Yunfei Ma, Songwu Lu, Wan Du, Z. Morley Mao, Ennan Zhai, Dennis Cai
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on ML for Systems
Code Paper
* Corresponding author
Starfish: Resilient Image Compression for AIoT Cameras
Pan Hu, Junha Im, Zain Asgar, Sachin Katti
SenSys 2020
Paper Talk Code
Continuous Measurement of Interactions with the Physical World with a Wrist-Worn Backscatter Reader
Ali Kiaghadi, Pan Hu, Jeremy Gummeson, Soha Rostaminia, Deepak Ganesan
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things
Paper
Dejavu: Enhancing Videoconferencing with Prior Knowledge
Pan Hu, Rakesh Misra, Sachin Katti
HotMobile 2019
Paper Talk Poster
Cellular Network Traffic Scheduling with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Sandeep Chinchali, Pan Hu, Tianshu Chu, Manu Sharma, Manu Bansal, Rakesh Misra, Marco Pavone, Sachin Katti
AAAI 2018
Paper
Braidio: An Integrated Active-Passive Radio for Mobile Devices with Asymmetric Energy Budgets
Pan Hu, Pengyu Zhang, Mohammad Rostami, Deepak Ganesan
SIGCOMM 2016
Paper Talk
Enabling Practical Backscatter Communication for On-body Sensors
Pengyu Zhang, Mohammad Rostami, Pan Hu, Deepak Ganesan
SIGCOMM 2016
Paper
Software Defined Batteries
Anirudh Badam, Ranveer Chandra, Jon A. Dutra, Anthony Ferrese, Steve Hodges, Pan Hu, Julia Meinershagen, Thomas Moscibroda, Bodhi Priyantha, Evangelia Skiani
SOSP 2015
Paper Talk
CIDER: Enabling Robustness-Power Tradeoffs on a Computational Eyeglass
Addison Mayberry, Yamin Tun, Pan Hu, Duncan Smith-Freedman, Deepak Ganesan, Benjamin Marlin, Christopher Salthouse
MobiCom 2015
Paper
Laissez-Faire: Fully asymmetric backscatter communication
Pan Hu, Pengyu Zhang, Deepak Ganesan
SIGCOMM 2015
Paper Talk
EkhoNet: High Speed Ultra Low-Power Backscatter
Pengyu Zhang, Pan Hu, Vijay Pasikanti, Deepak Ganesan
MobiCom 2014 (Best Paper Award Runner Up)
Paper
iShadow: Design of a Wearable, Real-Time Mobile Gaze Tracker
Addison Mayberry, Pan Hu, Benjamin Marlin, Christopher Salthouse and Deepak Ganesan
MobiSys 2014
Paper
Epsilon: A Visible Light Based Positioning System
Liqun Li, Pan Hu, Guobin Shen, Chunyi Peng, Feng Zhao
NSDI 2014
Paper
ViRi: View it Right
Pan Hu, Guobin Shen, Liqun Li, Donghuan Lu
MobiSys 2013
Paper
Auditeur: A Mobile-Cloud Service Platform for Acoustic Event Detection on Smartphones
Shahriar Nirjon, Robert Dickerson, Philip Asare, Qiang Li, Dezhi Hong, John Stankovic, Pan Hu, Guobin Shen, and Xiaofan Jiang
MobiSys 2013
Paper