Zhuotao Liu
Assistant Professor & Distinguished Researcher at Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolZhuotao Liu is an assistant professor and distinguished researcher at Tsinghua University leading the InspiringGroup, where he focuses on systems and networking with deep expertise in security, privacy computing, and next-generation infrastructure. He holds a Ph.D. in systems and security from UIUC and spent four years as a senior software engineer at Google building and operating the private WAN backbone that powers Google Search and Cloud. Zhuotao is also a serial founder of research-driven initiatives—HyperService Consortium for cross-blockchain interoperability and MiddlePolice for destination-driven DDoS mitigation—bridging academic research with deployable security technologies. His work has been published in flagship venues (ACM CCS, IEEE/ACM Transactions) and presented to standards and industry bodies, reflecting both theoretical depth and practical impact. Based in Beijing, he routinely mentors Ph.D. students and collaborators while maintaining industry ties, making him as comfortable in production network engineering as in cutting-edge academic research. An uncommon strength is his track record of turning complex network security ideas into consortium-grade platforms and operational infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
InspiringGroup/inspiringgroup.github.io
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
Allan Lab website
Contributions:152 pushes in 3 years 9 months
lablab-website
zliuInspire/HSApps
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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