Francis Yan
Assistant Professor
Studies networked and video systems with machine learning, including learned congestion control and adaptive video streaming.
Francis Yan's lab at UIUC works on data management & big data. 23 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly NSDI and ICLR. 5 PhD students and 9 master's students. 21 alumni, most often to Amazon and ByteDance. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 39%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 9
- alumni listed
- 21
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 9 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 3
- 5 papers2024 · T1 2
- 6 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NSDI, ICLR, EuroSys, ICC, OSDI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Data management & big data2 papers
- video2 papers
- streaming1 paper
- networked1 paper
- video streaming0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20269 papers
- CCRA DualPI2 Module for Mahimahi: Behavioral Characterization and Cross-Platform Analysis
- ICLR (T1)Algorithm Generation via Creative Ideation
- ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and ServicesAquaScope: Reliable Underwater Image Transmission on Mobile Devices
- EuroSys (T1)Concord: Learning Network Configuration Contracts
- ACM SIGCOMM ’26 Poster & Demo SessionNetArena Adaptation for Next Waves of Network Benchmarks
- ICLR (T1)NetArena: Dynamic Benchmarks for AI Agents in Network Automation
- ICCOffline Meta-learning for Real-time Bandwidth Estimation
- ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical ConferenceOpenNetLab: An Open Platform for AI-Based Bandwidth Estimation in Real-Time Communications
- ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in NetworksRediscovering heuristics: A litmus test for RL in networked systems
20253 papers
- OSDI (T1)Decouple and Decompose: Scaling Resource Allocation with DeDe
- NSDI (T1)Mowgli: Passively Learned Rate Control for Real-Time Video
- NSDI (T1)Towards Energy Efficient 5G vRAN Servers
20245 papers
- ACM Multimedia Systems ConferenceACM MMSys 2024 Bandwidth Estimation in Real Time Communications Challenge
- NSDI (T1)Autothrottle: A Practical Bi-Level Approach to Resource Management for SLO-Targeted Microservices
- ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in NetworksDesigning Network Algorithms via Large Language Models
- ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and ImplementationDiffy: Data-Driven Bug Finding for Configurations
- NSDI (T1)Grace: Loss-Resilient Real-Time Video through Neural Codecs
20236 papers
- MobiCom ’23 Demo SessionAccelerating Open RAN Research Through an Enterprise-scale 5G Testbed
- ICLR ’23 Tiny Papers TrackMitigating Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems with Offline Reinforcement Learning
- ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge ComputingOctopus: In-Network Content Adaptation to Control Congestion on 5G Links
- ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication ConferenceResilient Baseband Processing in Virtualized RANs with Slingshot
- NSDI (T1)Tambur: Efficient loss recovery for videoconferencing via streaming codes
- ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication ConferenceTeal: Learning-Accelerated Optimization of WAN Traffic Engineering
Where alumni went21 listed, 50% to industry
Industry 9Academia 9
Most often to
- Amazon
- ByteDance
- Citadel
Also to
- Cornell University
- ETH Zurich
- the University of Minnesota
Apply to UIUCFall 2027
UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
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- Single round
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- optional
- English
- TOEFL iBT / IELTS
- Fee
- USD 90
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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