Understanding and utilizing hardware transactional memory capacity. - Zixian Cai; Stephen M. Blackburn; Michael D. Bond (ISMM, 2021)

Synthesizing optimal collective algorithms. - Zixian Cai; Zhengyang Liu 003; Saeed Maleki; Madanlal Musuvathi; Todd Mytkowicz; Jacob Nelson 001; Olli Saarikivi (PPoPP, 2021)

Distilling the Real Cost of Production Garbage Collectors. - Zixian Cai; Stephen M. Blackburn; Michael D. Bond; Martin Maas 001 (ISPASS, 2022)

Improving Garbage Collection Observability with Performance Tracing. - Claire Huang; Stephen M. Blackburn; Zixian Cai (MPLR, 2023)

Rethinking Java Performance Analysis. - Stephen M. Blackburn; Zixian Cai; Rui Chen; Xi Yang 021; John Zhang; John N. Zigman (ASPLOS (1), 2025)