I am a senior researcher in the Intelligent Networked Systems group at Microsoft Research Redmond (previously Office of the CTO, Azure for Operators). I did my Ph.D. in University of Pennsylvania advised by Prof. Vincent Liu, where my thesis characterized zero-waste designs for networked systems and explored instantiations for auxiliary functions such as monitoring and control. Before Penn, I sampled random experiences in various contexts of networked systems.

My interests are broadly in systems and networking and I am captivated by the tangible, interdisciplinary nature of the domain. I am especially excited about minimizing waste in networked systems by (1) developing high-efficiency designs that tightly couple software with emerging hardware for applications; and (2) exploring innovative zero-waste practices for any residual waste.

Recent Publication

• Enabling Silent Telemetry Data Transmission with InvisiFlow
  Yinda Zhang, Liangcheng Yu, Gianni Antichi, Ran Ben Basat, and Vincent Liu
  NSDI, Apr 2025 [paper]

  

• Beaver: Practical Partial Snapshots for Distributed Cloud Services
  Liangcheng Yu, Xiao Zhang, Haoran Zhang, John Sonchack, Dan R. K. Ports, and Vincent Liu
  OSDI, July 2024 [paper, code, slides, video]
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• Cowbird: Freeing CPUs to Compute by Offloading the Disaggregation of Memory
  Xinyi Chen, Liangcheng Yu, Vincent Liu, and Qizhen Zhang
  SIGCOMM, Sep 2023 [paper]
  

  

• Cebinae: Scalable In-network Fairness Augmentation
  Liangcheng Yu, John Sonchack, and Vincent Liu
  SIGCOMM, Aug 2022 [paper, code, slides]
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• PrintQueue: Performance Diagnosis via Queue Measurement in the Data Plane
  Yiran Lei, Liangcheng Yu, Vincent Liu, and Mingwei Xu
  SIGCOMM, Aug 2022 [paper, code]
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• OrbWeaver: Using IDLE Cycles in Programmable Networks for Opportunistic Coordination
  Liangcheng Yu, John Sonchack, and Vincent Liu
  NSDI, Apr 2022 [paper, slides, code, video]

  

• Mantis: Reactive Programmable Switches
  Liangcheng Yu, John Sonchack, and Vincent Liu
  SIGCOMM, Aug 2020 [paper, video, code, slides, APNIC blog]
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Experience (More)

• 05/2023~08/2023
  Researcher Intern, Networking Research Group, Microsoft Research Redmond
• 05/2022~08/2022
  Researcher Intern, Azure Hardware, Microsoft Corporation
• 05/2021~04/2023
  SDE Intern & Student Researcher (part-time, intermittent), NetInfra, Google LLC
• 09/2018~04/2019
  Visiting Student Researcher, Berkeley NetSys Lab, UC Berkeley
• 10/2017~02/2018
  Intern, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (RISE SICS), Kista, Stockholm
• 08/2017~01/2018
  Software Developer Intern, Ericsson, Kista, Stockholm

Award (More)

• Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award (Best Computer Science Ph.D. thesis at Penn), 2024
• Penn Presidential PhD Fellow, 2021-2024
• Master thesis grant, Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation (Geneva, Switzerland), 2018
• Honorable mention, IEEE ComSoc student competition, 2017
• ETH Zürich Swiss-European Mobility Program (SEMP) scholarship, 2017
• KTH student ambassador for Information and Network Engineering, 2017
• KTH one-year scholarship for academic excellence, 2017

Misc

• Significant other
• Vinty (3 yrs old) & Wuggi (2 yrs old)