News

Awards, talks, releases, and milestones from the lab, most recent first.

From LinkedIn

Selected posts from Prof. Liu's LinkedIn.

Full History

2026

  • July 2026 — Excited to receive an NSF PCL award to work on AI acceleration for autonomous biomanufacturing! Thanks, NSF!
  • July 2026 — R2CC to appear in NSDI '27. Congrats to the team!
  • May 2026 — Honored to receive the NSF CAREER Award! Thanks, NSF!
  • May 2026 — zk-Analytics to appear in SIGCOMM '26. Congrats to Zeying and the team!
  • March 2026 — Congrats to Lesley for winning the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship!
  • February 2026 — NetArena is ranked #1 in the AgentX AgentBeats Competition. Congrats!
  • January 2026 — Congrats to Zeying on being selected as a Future Faculty Fellow at the University of Maryland Clark School!
  • January 2026 — Congrats to Lesley for presenting at Rising Stars in AI Symposium, KAUST 2026!
  • January 2026 — NetArena to appear in ICLR '26. Congrats to Lesley and the team!

2025

  • December 2025 — Tidal to appear in NINeS '26. Congrats to Lesley and the team!
  • December 2025 — PrvTel to appear in NSDI '26. Congrats to Lesley and the team!
  • October 2025 — MeshAgent to appear in SIGMETRICS '26. Congrats to Lesley and the team!
  • September 2025 — ZKP-NetLog to appear in HotNets '25. Congrats to the team!
  • September 2025 — Peiqing and the team studied the protocol compliance of popular RTC apps. The results will be presented at IMC '25.
  • June 2025 — PromSketch to appear in VLDB '25. Congrats to Zeying, Jonathan, and the team!
  • January 2025 — OctoCache to appear in ASPLOS '25. Congrats to Peiqing and the team!

2024

  • August 2024 — SketchPlan to appear in IMC '24. Congrats to the team!
  • May 2024 — Serving the program committees of NSDI '25, FAST '25, and IMC '24. Submit your great work!

2023

  • December 2023 — NetMigrate to appear in FAST '24. Congrats to Zeying and Yibo!
  • September 2023 — Investigation agent to appear in HotNets '23. Congrats to Lesley and Nengneng!
  • August 2023 — TrustSketch to appear in NDSS '24. Congrats to the team!
  • July 2023 — OctoSketch to appear in NSDI '24. Congrats to Yinda and Peiqing!
  • May 2023 — Tulkun to appear in SIGCOMM '23. Congrats to the team!
  • May 2023 — Joining UMD CS this fall as an Assistant Professor.
  • January 2023 — Panakos to appear in VLDB '23. Congrats to the team!
  • January 2023 — Thanks Red Hat for the 2023 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Awards!

2021–2022 (at Boston University)

  • December 2022 — Two systems, Arya and Sketchovsky, to appear in NSDI '23. Congrats to the team!
  • September 2022 — NitroSketch and its SIMD variation deployed in DPDK.
  • September 2022 — Teaching Cloud Computing at BU.
  • July 2022 — Hydra to appear in VLDB '22. Congrats to the team!
  • June 2022 — Giving a tutorial on data-plane algorithms at SIGMETRICS '22 with Ran, Vova, and Michael.
  • May 2022 — Co-chairing the Telemetry Working Group via MOC and Red Hat.
  • May 2022 — Zeying interning at Microsoft Research this summer.
  • April 2022 — NSDI '22 — first in-person conference in a while.
  • March 2022 — Co-organizing the 3rd FFSPIN workshop at SIGCOMM '22.
  • December 2021 — Thanks Red Hat for the 2022 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award!
  • November 2021 — Research grant from Microsoft for data-driven optimization for 5G at BU.
  • August 2021 — Leading an NSF CNS medium project on future-proof telemetry.
  • August 2021 — Precise telemetry error estimation paper to appear in IMC '21. Congrats to Peiqing!
  • August 2021 — NSF SaTC and CNS grants for optics-enabled defense and data-driven network management.
  • June 2021 — HeteroSketch and SketchLib papers to appear in NSDI '22. Congrats to the team!
  • May 2021 — CocoSketch to appear in SIGCOMM '21. Congrats to the team!
  • March 2021 — NitroSketch integrated into Intel's DPDK load balancer product.
  • February 2021 — Jaqen to appear in USENIX Security '21.
  • January 2021 — Started at Boston University for a new adventure.