Summary
Vincent Liu is an associate professor and leader of the PennNetworks group and Distributed Systems Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in distributed systems and networking with eight years of academic experience. His research spans AI/ML inference, programmable networks, serverless computing, resource disaggregation, and fault-tolerance, and has earned an NSF CAREER Award plus industry research awards from VMware, Facebook, and Google alongside best papers at SIGCOMM and NSDI. Trained at the University of Washington under Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy, he blends deep systems thinking with practical infrastructure work—evident from internships at Google, Facebook, and Cisco. Vincent focuses on solving long-standing problems by bridging disciplines and bringing creative, implementable approaches that move from theory to production-scale systems.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin