Zhengyang Liu

I am a Ph.D. student at School of Computing, University of Utah. I am advised by John Regehr. I work broadly on program syntheses and compiler optimizations. I was the recipient of the Best Paper Awards of CGO'20 and PPOPP'21, and the recipient of the Distinguished Paper Awards of OOPSLA'20 and PLDI'21. Before coming to Utah, I received my bachelor's degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.


Research Interests:
Program Syntheses, Compiler Optimizations, Parallel Computing and Systems for ML.
Publications:
Nuno P. Lopes, Juneyoung Lee, Chung-Kil Hur, Zhengyang Liu, John Regehr. Alive2: Bounded Translation Validation for LLVM. PLDI 2021, Distinguished Paper Award. [doi]
Zixian Cai*, Zhengyang Liu* (Equal contributions), Saeed Maleki, Madan Musuvathi, Todd Mytkowicz, Jacob Nelson, Olli Saarikivi. Synthesizing Optimal Collective Algorithms. PPoPP 2021, Best Paper Award. [arXiv][doi][video]
Manasij Mukherjee, Pranav Kant, Zhengyang Liu, John Regehr. Dataflow-based Pruning for Speeding up Superoptimization. OOPSLA 2020, Distinguished Paper Award. [doi]
Jubi Taneja, Zhengyang Liu, and John Regehr. Testing Static Analyses for Precision and Soundness. CGO 2020, Best Paper Award. [doi][artifact]
Juneyoung Lee, Chung-Kil Hur, Ralf Jung, Zhengyang Liu, John Regehr, and Nuno P. Lopes. Reconciling High-level Optimizations and Low-level Code in LLVM. OOPSLA 2018. [doi]
Zhengyang Liu, and John Criswell. Flexible and Efficient Memory Object Metadata. International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), 2017. [doi]
Zhengyang Liu, and Yiran Wei. Hop-by-hop Adaptive Video Streaming in Content Centric Network. IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), 2016. [doi]
Talks:
Minotaur, a SIMD oriented superoptimizer, invited talks presented at Intel, NVIDIA and LLVM Developers' Meeting (2022).
Synthesizing Optimal Collective Algorithms, Invited talk at Google Research, September 2022.
Reasoning About and Discovering LLVM Optimizations, Tutorial talk at PLDI'22, San Diego, CA, June 2022.
Synthesizing Optimal Collective Algorithms, Guest talk at NVIDIA, September 2020.
Professional Services:
AEC@ECOOP'23
AEC@PLDI'21
AEC@CGO'21
ShadowPC@EuroSys'21
AEC@OOPSLA'21
Address:
School of Computing MEB 3355
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
E-mail:
liuz at cs dot utah dot edu
Links:
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