Kaiwei Tu

Kaiwei Tu

Research Scientist

Meta

I'm a systems generalist interested in infrastructure for AI, with experience across hardware/software co-design, inference, and storage and memory systems.

I work at Meta as a Research Scientist on the AI and Systems Co-design team, where I build and optimize agentic infrastructure for personal intelligence, powering Meta's Muse. My work spans:

  • Agentic infrastructure: software/hardware co-design and performance optimization for Muse models
  • Memory for long-context inference: pathfinding emerging memory technologies, such as high-bandwidth flash, to scale inference capacity and cost-efficiency
  • Agents for hardware co-design: agentic systems that automate software/hardware co-design

I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2026), advised by Andrea and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau in the ADvanced Systems Laboratory (ADSL), where I worked on heterogeneous storage and memory systems. I also hold B.S. degrees from the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019).

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Meta

Research Scientist, AI and Systems Co-design

Meta

Jul 2026 – Present
 
 
 
 
 
Meta

PhD Intern, AI and Systems Co-design

Meta

May 2025 – Aug 2025
 
 
 
 
 
Google

Research Intern, Google Cloud

Google

May 2022 – Aug 2022
 
 
 
 
 
Citrix

Software Development Engineer Intern

Citrix

May 2018 – Aug 2018

Recent Publications

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. A novel load balancing mechanism for tiered memory (title withheld for anonymity). In submission.
(2026). Optimizing Modern Heterogeneous Systems: From Storage to Memory. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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(2026). Getting the MOST out of your Storage Hierarchy with Mirror-Optimized Storage Tiering. In FAST'26. PDF Cite
(2022). NyxCache: Flexible and Efficient Multi-tenant Persistent Memory Caching. In FAST'22.

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(2021). The Storage Hierarchy is Not a Hierarchy: Optimizing Caching on Modern Storage Devices with Orthus. In FAST'21.

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Service

  • Evaluation Committee, ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS 2026)
  • Shadow Program Committee, EuroSys 2026