milad@sys:~$ whoami

Milad Zarei-Maleki

Systems Software & Kernel Observability Researcher
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering @ Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST)
Research Assistant @ Deep Observability Lab (Supervisor: Dr. Seyed Vahid Azhari)

milad@sys:~$ status --brief

Academic Standing: First-Class Honors (Ranked top echelon across 141 graded credits; GPA: 18.69 / 20.00 — US: 3.96+ / 4.0)
Open Source Impact: 3 upstream pull requests merged into official uftrace
Konkour Standing: Ranked 1st in high school, ~500th nationwide among 145,000+ examinees (Top 0.35%)
Teaching Leadership: Head TA for Computer Workshop (3 yrs), Software Engineering, and Programming Fundamentals

Projects Research Teaching CV (PDF) ↗ About Me

# Research Interests

› Systems Software & Operating Systems

› Low-Overhead Dynamic Runtime Tracing & Kernel Observability

› High-Performance Packet Processing (DPDK & userspace eBPF)

› Distributed Systems & Edge Computing Optimization

› Dynamic Program Analysis & Compiler Tooling

› Microarchitectural Profiling & Performance Diagnostics

# Featured Systems Projects

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xv6: In-Kernel Deadlock Detection Engine

C / x86 Assembly / QEMU

Engineered an in-kernel dynamic deadlock detection subsystem for multi-threaded processes in xv6 using an active Resource Allocation Graph (RAG) mapped within dedicated kernel memory pages, custom syscalls, and DFS cycle detection with spinlock synchronization.

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Microarchitectural Profiling: KVM vs. QEMU TCG

C / Linux perf / QEMU / KVM

Evaluated memory and cache behaviors comparing hardware virtualization (KVM on Intel VT-x) against dynamic binary translation (QEMU TCG cross-architecture: x86_64 to aarch64). Pinned isolated vCPUs, evaluated cache hierarchies under memory-bound workloads, and isolated SoftMMU hotspots with FlameGraphs.

[Read Architecture] [GitHub ↗]

fluidrs: Real-Time Eulerian Fluid Dynamics Engine

Rust / Raylib / Dear ImGui

Designed a real-time 2D Eulerian fluid simulation engine from scratch in Rust, solving incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with vectorized Jacobi relaxation algorithms for numerical pressure Poisson projection at sustained 60+ FPS.

[Read Architecture] [GitHub ↗]

# Kernel & Systems Toolkit

[Systems & Linux]

Linux Systems Programming · Dynamic Kernel Tracing (uftrace, perf, strace) · Userspace eBPF (bpftime, libbpf) · QEMU · Memory Management (Paging/Swapping) · x86 Assembly · GDB

[Languages]

C · C++ · Rust · Python · Go · C# · Bash/Shell · SQL · VHDL

[Networking & Distributed]

TCP/IP Protocols · DPDK · TUN/TAP Interfaces · Isolated Network Namespaces · Sockets · REST APIs · WireGuard / Sing-box

[Tools & Environments]

Git / GitHub · Docker · Linux System Administration · CMake · Raylib · Dear ImGui · NumPy · SciPy · Matplotlib

[Embedded & Hardware]

ESP8266 · ESP32 · ESP-NOW Protocol · Arduino · AVR / ATmega32 Interfacing