Harry Xu

Harry Xu is a distinguished academic and entrepreneur in computer science, specializing in systems research including programming languages, compilers, operating systems, distributed systems, and computer architecture. He currently holds a position as a Full Professor at UCLA. ucla+1

He is the co-founder and CEO of BreezeML, a startup focused on AI governance and risk management for generative AI. The company, founded in March 2022 by professors from UCLA and Princeton, secured $4M in seed funding to develop solutions that automate and virtualize cloud AI deployments, aiming to make ML accessible and compliant for businesses. breezeml+2

Xu is recognized for his pioneering work on 'software bloat' analysis, a field that influenced the ONR's $200M TPCP program. His research, supported by grants from the Office of Naval Research, focuses on reducing software inefficiencies and improving the security of critical systems, notably developing the 'Library Auto-Selection (LAS)' technique that significantly reduced bloat and improved runtime performance. ucla+2

His contributions to object-oriented programming for big data systems were recognized with the 2018 Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize, a prestigious award considered the highest honor in the field of object-oriented programming languages. ucla+1

Earlier in his career, he worked as a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research, leading the development of the Niijima optimizing compiler, and as a Research Intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he developed runtime bloat detection and performance optimization tools for enterprise Java customers. ucla+2