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Vincent Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science. He directs the Distributed Systems Lab (DSL) and leads the PennNetworks research group. His research bridges distributed systems and networking, focusing on programmable networks, fault-tolerance, cloud infrastructure, and Internet architecture.
Education includes a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and undergraduate research at the University of Texas at Austin in compilers and parallel systems.
Research spans distributed systems optimization, cloud computing, sustainable computing, and ML infrastructure. Recent publications emphasize low-latency systems (Paella), cloud multicast (Cloudcast), distributed snapshots (Beaver), and sustainable computing frameworks (Carbon Connect). Network simulation innovations include DONS and NetVision.
Awards & Honors:
- NSF CAREER Award (2019)
- VMWare Early Career Award (2019)
- Best Paper Award, USENIX NSDI (2015)
- Google Fellowship in Networking (2014)
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (2014)
- Facebook Faculty Research Award
- Google Research Award
Advises 11+ PhD students, with graduates at Meta, AWS, Microsoft Research, and academia (e.g., Qizhen Zhang, Asst. Prof. at Toronto). Secured grants from NSF, VMWare, Facebook, and Google.
Leads the Distributed Systems Lab and PennNetworks group exploring cloud architectures, programmable networks, and sustainable computing. Actively recruiting PhD students.
