I am a senior researcher in the Software-HARdware Codesign (SHARC) team at Microsoft Research Redmond, after spending a year in the Intelligent Networked Systems group (previously Office of the CTO, Azure for Operators). I received a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania, where I was fortunate to be advised by Vincent Liu. I received an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
My work lies in the broad, interdisciplinary areas of systems and networking. I enjoy working near tangible hardware (e.g., networking devices, memory subsystems, and heterogeneous accelerators), with a focus on developing hardware-aware techniques for modern systems and applications.
Recent Publication
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SIGCOMM '26Honey, I Shrunk the Headers with Flow.ZIP
Yinda Zhang, Liangcheng Yu, Gianni Antichi, Ran Ben Basat, and Vincent Liu
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Aug 2026
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NSDI '26FAST: An Efficient Scheduler for All-to-All GPU Communication
Yiran Lei, Dongjoo Lee, Liangyu Zhao, Daniar Kurniawan, Chanmyeong Kim, Heetaek Jeong, Changsu Kim, Hyeonseong Choi, Liangcheng Yu, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Justine Sherry, Eriko Nurvitadhi
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2026
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AFT '25Cuttlefish: A Fair, Predictable Execution Environment for Cloud-hosted Financial Exchanges
Liangcheng Yu, Prateesh Goyal, Ilias Marinos, and Vincent Liu
Advances in Financial Technologies, Oct 2025
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NSDI '25Enabling Silent Telemetry Data Transmission with InvisiFlow
Yinda Zhang, Liangcheng Yu, Gianni Antichi, Ran Ben Basat, and Vincent Liu
USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Apr 2025
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OSDI '24Beaver: Practical Partial Snapshots for Distributed Cloud Services
Liangcheng Yu, Xiao Zhang, Haoran Zhang, John Sonchack, Dan R. K. Ports, and Vincent Liu
USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, July 2024
[paper, code, slides, video]
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SIGCOMM '23Cowbird: Freeing CPUs to Compute by Offloading the Disaggregation of Memory
Xinyi Chen, Liangcheng Yu, Vincent Liu, and Qizhen Zhang
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Sep 2023
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SIGCOMM '20Mantis: Reactive Programmable Switches
Liangcheng Yu, John Sonchack, and Vincent Liu
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Aug 2020
[paper, video, code, slides, APNIC blog]
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Program Committee
- EuroSys 2027
- SIGCOMM 2026, ASPLOS 2026, IMC 2026, APNet 2026
- SoCC 2025, APNet 2025
- SOSP Poster Session 2024
Experience (More)
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05/2023~08/2023Researcher Intern, Networking Research Group, Microsoft Research Redmond
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05/2022~08/2022Researcher Intern, Azure Hardware, Microsoft Corporation
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05/2021~04/2023SDE Intern & Student Researcher (part-time, intermittent), NetInfra, Google LLC
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09/2018~04/2019Visiting Student Researcher, Berkeley NetSys Lab, UC Berkeley
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10/2017~02/2018Intern, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (RISE SICS), Kista, Stockholm
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08/2017~01/2018Software Developer Intern, Ericsson, Kista, Stockholm