This lecture by the instructor provides an overview of their work during their PhD, focusing on designing, building, scaling, and ensuring the robustness of operating systems. They discuss projects related to heterogeneous machines, graph processing systems, and file systems, as well as their contributions to redesigning operating system services and synchronization algorithms. The lecture also highlights their bug-finding efforts in the Linux kernel and their publications in top-tier conferences, inviting students interested in practical and ambitious problems to reach out for potential collaborations.