Yang "Robert" Liu

Email yal036 AT cs.ucsd.edu
Office EBU3B 3144

Currently I am a third year PhD student working under Prof. Steven Swanson. My research interests lie in exploring design space in next-generation storage systems, and rethinking the interface between software and hardware in computer systems.

Previously I worked with Prof. YY Zhou on software reliability.

Education

Before came to UC San Diego, I received my Master's degree and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University and Beihang University (BUAA), respectively.

Publications

ATDetector: Improving the Accuracy of a Commercial Data Race Detector by Identifying Address Transfer, MICRO'11
Jiaqi Zhang, Weiwei Xiong, Yang Liu, Soyeon Park, Yuanyuan Zhou, Zhiqiang Ma

Be Conservative: Enhancing Failure Diagnosis with Proactive Logging, OSDI'12
Ding Yuan, Soyeon Park, Peng Huang, Yang Liu, Michael M. Lee, Xiaoming Tang, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Stefan Savage

Experience

Summer 2011 Intern, Broadcom. Developed software model for mobile power management.

Teaching

Fall 2012 TA for CSE100, Advanced Data Structure
Winter 2013 TA for CSE100, Advanced Data Structure

Misc

When I am not doing research, I like hiking, photographing, and enjoying classical music.