Biography

I am a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Ravishankar K. Iyer at the DEPEND research group in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. I am broadly interested in distributed systems, with a focus on performance and resilience perspectives. My recent research focuses on designing novel ML (e.g., reinforcement learning)-based solutions and integrate them seamlessly (with high efficiency, robustness, and reliability) into the design and management of production cloud systems.

Before joining UIUC, I got my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). I was advised by Prof. Heming Cui at the HKU Systems Software Group. I also spent a semester as a visiting student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where I worked at the WiNGS Lab led by Prof. Suman Banerjee.

In the past, I have worked with IBM Research, Google, and Microsoft Research.

I grew up in Qingdao, a beautiful city located on China’s Yellow Sea coast.