Li (Lilly) Wu
Scholar

Li (Lilly) Wu

Google Scholar ID: K6KmzXgAAAAJ
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Distributed SystemsCloud ComputingEdge ComputingSustainable ComputingAI Systems
Citations & Impact
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Citations
601
 
H-index
9
 
i10-index
8
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
14
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • The MicroRCA project is open-sourced; 'FailLite: Failure-Resilient Model Serving for Resource-Constrained Edge Environments' paper accepted in ACM SoCC’25; 'LLM-Driven Auto Configuration for Transient IoT Device Collaboration' paper accepted in ACM/IEEE SEC’25; 'Practical Considerations for Failure Resilient ML Systems at the Edge' paper accepted in MILCOM’25 workshop; served on the Technical Program Committee or as a reviewer for multiple academic conferences.
Research Experience
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Laboratory for Advanced Software Systems (LASS), University of Massachusetts Amherst, working with Prashant Shenoy. Previously, worked as a software developer and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at IBM Cloud, as a system scientist at Elastisys, and as a senior research scientist at Bosch Research, researching reliable distributed systems for autonomous driving.
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science from TU Berlin, Germany; Advisors: Odej Kao, Johan Tordsson, Erik Elmroth, Guillaume Pierre; Ph.D. dissertation focused on automatic performance diagnosis and recovery for cloud microservices.
Background
  • Research interests: Performance, reliability, and sustainability of large-scale computing systems (e.g., edge/cloud computing), specifically concerning machine learning workloads and microservices.
Miscellany
  • Currently on the 2025-2026 academic job market; personal webpage powered by Jekyll with al-folio theme.