Biography

I am a fifth-year PhD student at the University of California Santa Cruz, under the supervision of Prof. Chen Qian. I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Electronic Information Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2020, where I was advised by Prof. Wei Gong. My research work mainly focuses on computer networking and database systems. I interned at AWS in the summer of 2023.

Publications

• [VLDB 2025] Outback: Fast and Communication-efficient Index for Key-Value Store on Disaggregated Memory.
  Yi Liu, Minghao Xie, Shouqian Shi, Yuanchao Xu, Heiner Litz, Chen Qian.
  International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, London, United Kingdom, September 1-5, 2025.


• [ICNP 2024] Scalable, Fast, and Low-memory Table Lookups for Network Applications with one CRC-8. [Paper]
  Yi Liu, Shouqian Shi, Ruilin Zhou, Yuhang Gan, Chen Qian.
  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Charleroi, Belgium, October 28-31, 2024.


• [ICNP 2024] Towards Practical Overlay Networks for Decentralized Federated Learning. [Paper]
  Yifan Hua, Jinlong Pang, Xiaoxue Zhang, Yi Liu, Xiaofeng Shi, Bao Wang, Yang Liu, Chen Qian.
  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Charleroi, Belgium, October 28-31, 2024.


• [IEEE CLOUD 2024] SpotKV: Improving Read Throughput of KVS by I/O-aware Cache and Adaptive Cuckoo Filters. [Paper]
  Yi Liu, Ruilin Zhou, Yuhang Gan, Chen Qian.
  IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Shenzhen, China, July 7-13, 2024.


• [QCNC 2024] Towards QoS-aware Quantum Networks. [Paper]
  Ruilin Zhou, Yuhang Gan, Yi Liu, Katia Obraczka, Chen Qian.
  International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing, Kanazawa, Japan, July 1-3, 2024.


• [SIGMETRICS 2023] Smash: Flexible, Fast, and Resource-efficient Placement and Lookup of Distributed Storage. [Paper]
  Yi Liu, Shouqian Shi, Minghao Xie, Heiner Litz, Chen Qian.
  Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, Orlando, Florida, USA, June 19-22, 2023.
  (Selected to CACM Research Highlights)


• [QCE 2023] A Routing Framework for Quantum Entanglements with Heterogeneous Duration. [Paper]
  Yuhang Gan, Xiaoxue Zhang, Ruilin Zhou, Yi Liu, Chen Qian.
  IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, Bellevue, Washington, September 17-22, 2023.


• [SEC 2023] EdgeCut: Fast and Low-overhead Access of User-associated Contents from Edge Servers. [Paper]
  Yi Liu, Minmei Wang, Shouqian Shi, Yang Wang, Chen Qian.
  ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, Wilmington, Delaware, USA, December 6-9, 2023.


• [IoT Journal 2022] Concurrent Rate-adaptive Reading with Passive RFIDs. [Paper]
  Ge Wang, Shouqian Shi, Huazhe Wang, Yi Liu, Chen Qian, Cong Zhao, Wei Xi, Han Ding, Zhiping Jiang, Jizhong Zhao.
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal 10, no. 1 (2022): 499-511.

Workshop/Poster Publications

• [ICNP Poster 2024] Distributed Learned Hash Table.
  Shengze Wang, Yi Liu, Xiaoxue Zhang, Liting Hu, Chen Qian.
  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Charleroi, Belgium, October 28-31, 2024.


• [SIGCOMM N2Women 2023] Towards Consolidated Algorithms for Co-located Network Functions on Programmable Data Planes.
  Minmei Wang, Zaoxing Liu, Yi Liu, Shouqian Shi, Chen Qian.
  ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking Networking Women Professional Development, New York, USA, Sep. 10-14, 2023.


• [SIGCOMM QuNet 2023] Towards Flow Scheduling in a Quantum Data Center.
  Ruilin Zhou, Yuhang Gan, Yi Liu.
  ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Quantum Networks and Distributed Quantum Computing, New York, USA, Sep. 10-14, 2023.

Teaching Assistants

In UC Santa Cruz:

• CSE 150 Computer Networks (2023 Spring)
• CSE 80N Intro to Networking (2022 Fall)
• CSE 107 Probability and Statistics (2022 Winter)
• CSE 16 Applied Discrete Mathematics (2021 Spring, 2021 Fall)

In USTC:

• Linear Electronic Circuits (2018 Fall)

Last update: 2nd July, 2023.