Yizhuo Liang (Coulson)

Computer Science Researcher

Yizhuo Liang

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