
Hello there 👋,
I'm HansenI am a second year CS PhD Student at Virginia Tech. I received a B.Informatics degree from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) with cum laude distinction. My unmatched perspicacity coupled with sheer indefatigability makes me love research with high curiosity.
I have broad interests in Storage Systems, Memory Systems, and Systems Architecture.
Recent News
Feb. 2026Received travel grant for FAST'26 in Santa Clara, CA!
Nov. 2025Cylon is accepted at FAST'26!
Nov. 2025PACT is accepted at ASPLOS'26!
Jul. 2025Received travel grant for ATC'25 in Boston, MA!
Aug. 2024Starting my CS PhD at Virginia Tech!
Apr. 2024Excited to share that I will be pursuing a PhD at Virginia Tech under Prof. Huaicheng Li.
Apr. 2024Graduated from ITS with cum laude!
Publications
ASPLOS '26
PACT: Fine-Grained Online Criticality-Driven Memory Tiering
Hamid Hadian, Jinshu Liu*, Hanchen Xu*, Hansen Idden, Huaicheng Li
* Equal contributions
* Equal contributions
To appear
Talks
FAST '26
Cylon: Fast and Accurate Full-System Emulation of CXL-SSDs
Santa Clara, CA - Feb. 2026
Video coming soon
Teaching
TA
CS5264 Linux Kernel Programming
Spring 2026
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Spring 2025
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Fall 2024