Yizhuo Liang (Coulson)
Computer Science Researcher
Hi, I am currently a full-time research intern at the Networked Systems Lab, University of Southern California. I am actively looking for PhD opportunities, with a broad interest of distributed and operating systems.
New York University
B.A. in Computer Science with honors, Minor in Mathematics
January 2021 - May 2024
GPA: 3.866/4.0
Related CS Courses (A-Grades): Operating Systems, Database Systems, Algorithms, Computation Theory, Formal Verification
Math Courses: Honors series in Vector Calculus, Analysis, and Abstract Algebra
High-resolution Application Profiling
Full-time Research Intern, Networked Systems Lab, University of Southern California
July 2024 - Present
- Built a tool for monitoring application performance and profiling resource usage at microsecond scale.
- Achieved less than 10% runtime overhead while identifying lock contention, interference, and hardware resource bottlenecks.
- Investigating memory bandwidth contention and resource demand heterogeneity.
Efficient Software Fault Isolation for the Cloud
Research Assistant, Secure Systems Lab, NYU
June 2023 - June 2024
- Built a Software Fault Isolation system for process-level sandboxing.
- Implemented a library OS with fast inter-process communications.
- Made benchmarks 75-200% faster than native Linux.
- Led transition to WASM runtimes and ported glibc to WASM.
Programming Languages
GoCRustPythonJavaCoq
Software and Frameworks
DockerKubernetesLinuxgRPCHadoopReactiris-coq