A team of WashU faculty and alumni has received recognition for a pioneering paper that has been influential in the field of embedded software for more than a decade.
The paper, titled “RT-Xen: Towards Real-time Hypervisor Scheduling in Xen,” received the 2025 Test of Time award from EmSoft, the flagship conference on embedded software.
The authors were Sisu Xi, who earned a doctorate in computer science and engineering from the engineering school in 2014 and now works as a principal software engineer for Hebbia; Justin Wilson, who earned a doctorate in computer science and engineering from the school in 2016 and now works as a principal software engineer at Object Computing Inc.; Chenyang Lu, the Fullgraf Professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering and director of the AI for Health Institute at Washington University in St. Louis; and Christopher Gill, a professor of computer science and engineering at McKelvey Engineering.
The award recognizes papers that are at least 10 years old and have had a longstanding impact.
Read more on the McKelvey Engineering website.
