Alan Zaoxing Liu
Assistant Professor
Leads the FROOT lab, building faster and more trustworthy networked and distributed AI systems and robust sketching algorithms.
Alan Zaoxing Liu's lab at UMD works on distributed, cloud & edge systems, trustworthy & safe ML and interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs. 25 papers since 2023. 12 PhD students. 7 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 12
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 7
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 0
- 7 papers2024 · T1 0
- 5 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Distributed, cloud & edge systems4 papers
- Trustworthy & safe ML1 paper
- Interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs0 papers
- networked0 papers
- building0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20267 papers
- in Cell Reports MedicineA 15-Layer Multi-Omics Analysis of Gastric Cancer Ecotypes Provides Therapeutic Insights (opens in a new tab)
- in ACM SIGMETRICS ‘26MeshAgent: Enabling Reliable Network Management with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- in ICLR ‘26NetArena: Dynamic Benchmarks for AI Agents in Network Automation (opens in a new tab)
- in USENIX NSDI ‘26PrvTel: Lightweight Models for Private and Accurate Telemetry Data Retention (opens in a new tab)
- in IEEE ICDE ‘26Spatiotemporal Sketch Disaggregation: Streaming Analytics with Heterogeneous Resources (opens in a new tab)
- in NINeS ‘26Tidal: Tackling Concept Drift in Provenance-based Advanced Persistent Threats Detection (opens in a new tab)
- in ACM SIGCOMM ‘26Zero-Knowledge Cloud Analytics (opens in a new tab)
20256 papers
- in VLDB ‘25Approximation-First Timeseries Monitoring Query At Scale (opens in a new tab)
- in ACM Computing SurveysCompact Data Structures for Network Telemetry (opens in a new tab)
- in ACM SIGMETRICS ‘25Exploiting Kubernetes Autoscaling for Economic Denial of Sustainability (opens in a new tab)
- in ACM ASPLOS ‘25OctoCache: Caching Voxels for Accelerating 3D Occupancy Mapping in Autonomous Systems (opens in a new tab)
- in ACM IMC ‘25Protocol Compliance in Popular RTC Applications (opens in a new tab)
- in ACM HotNets ‘25Towards Verifiable Network Telemetry without Special Purpose Hardware
20247 papers
- in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure ComputingAnalyzing the Benefits of Optical Topology Programming for Mitigating Link-Flood DDoS Attacks (opens in a new tab)
- in Neurips ENLSPGEAR: An Efficient KV Cache Compression Recipe for Near-Lossless Generative Inference of LLM (opens in a new tab)
- in USENIX FAST ‘24In-Memory Key-Value Store Live Migration with NetMigrate (opens in a new tab)
- in USENIX NSDI ‘24OctoSketch: Enabling Real-Time, Continuous Network Monitoring over Multiple Cores (opens in a new tab)
- in ACM IMC ‘24Raising the Level of Abstraction for Sketch-Based Network Telemetry with SketchPlan (opens in a new tab)
- in NDSS Symposium ‘24TrustSketch: Trustworthy Sketch-based Telemetry on Cloud Hosts (opens in a new tab)
- in IEEE IC2E ‘24Unleashing Performance Insights with Online Probabilistic Tracing (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- in USENIX NSDI ‘23Arya: Arbitrary Graph Pattern Mining with Decomposition-based Sampling (opens in a new tab)
- in ACM SIGCOMM ‘23Beyond a Centralized Verifier: Scaling Data Plane Checking via Distributed, On-Device Verification (opens in a new tab)
- in VLDB ‘23Panakos: Chasing the Tails for Multidimensional Data Streams (opens in a new tab)
- in USENIX NSDI ‘23Sketchovsky: Enabling Ensembles of Sketches on Programmable Switches (opens in a new tab)
- in ACM HotNets ‘23Towards Interactive Research Agents for Internet Incident Investigation (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went7 listed
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