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Ao Li

About the author

Ao Li is a fifth-year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on developing practical and general-purpose debugging and testing tools for heterogeneous cloud applications.

Author’s articles

Concurrency bugs in Lucene: How to fix optimistic concurrency failures
Lucene

February 7, 2025

Concurrency bugs in Lucene: How to fix optimistic concurrency failures

Thanks to Fray, a deterministic concurrency testing framework from CMU’s PASTA Lab, we tracked down a tricky Lucene bug and squashed it

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By: Benjamin Trent and Ao Li

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