معرفی
Alan Zaoxing Liu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, with appointments at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2). His research bridges systems, networking, and cybersecurity to design scalable, trustworthy approximate computing systems.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University (2018)
- Postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon CyLab (2018–2020)
Research Interests:
- Networked and data-intensive systems
- Telemetry/analytics for heterogeneous networks
- Machine learning for network optimization
- Security in programmable networks
Recent Publications include work on future-proof telemetry (PromSketch, VLDB’25), scalable caching (OctoCache, ASPLOS’25), and secure network analytics (TrustSketch, NDSS’24). His NSF-funded projects focus on optics-enabled DDoS defense and data-driven network management.
Scientific Awards:
- USENIX FAST Best Paper (2019)
- USENIX ATC 'Best of Rest' (2021)
- Red Hat Collaboratory Research Awards (2022, 2023)
Teaching: Leads Cloud Computing at Boston University, emphasizing agile development, open-source collaboration, and cloud infrastructure.
