Li (Lilly) Wu

Welcome to my webpage!

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Advanced Software Systems (LASS), University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst, working with Prashant Shenoy. My primary research interests focus on the performance, reliability, and sustainability of large-scale computing systems (e.g., edge/cloud computing), specifically concerning machine learning workloads and microservices.

I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science at TU Berlin, Germany. During my PhD, I closely worked with Odej Kao, Johan Tordsson, Erik Elmroth, and Guillaume Pierre . My Ph.D. dissertation focused on automatic performance diagnosis and recovery for cloud microservices. My research work, MicroRCA and MicroDiag, have gained significant interest in the community and are regarded as state-of-the-art methods for many root cause analysis research projects. The MicroRCA project is open-sourced.

In addition to my academic achievements, I also had industrial experience as a software developer and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at IBM Cloud, as a data scientist at Elastisys, and as a senior research scientist at Bosch Research, where I researched on reliable distributed system for autonomous driving.

Outside of work, I enjoy immersing myself in books, music, and art. I’m particularly drawn to impressionism and post-impressionism paintings, jazz, and sci-fi.