Li (Lilly) Wu
Making Resilience and Sustainability the System Default
Contact Info:
A313 LGRC,
740 N Pleasant St,
Amherst, MA 01003
Welcome to my webpage!
I am a Postdoctoral Associate 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, resilience, 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.
I am currently on the 2025-2026 academic job market. Please feel free to reach out!
Recent News
| Sep 30, 2025 | Guest lectured in COMPSCI 230 Computer Systems Principles. Thanks to Nikko for the kind invitation. |
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| Sep 30, 2025 | Serving on the Shadow Program Committee (PC) of ACM Eurosys 2026. |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Our “FailLite: Failure-Resilient Model Serving for Resource-Constrained Edge Environments” paper got accepted in ACM SoCC’25. |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Our “LLM-Driven Auto Configuration for Transient IoT Device Collaboration” paper got accepted in ACM/IEEE SEC’25. |
| Sep 9, 2025 | Our “Practical Considerations for Failure Resilient ML Systems at the Edge” paper got accepted in MILCOM’25 workshop. |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Serving on the Technical Program Committee (PC) of ACM/IEEE SEC 2025. |
| Aug 25, 2025 | Gave a virtual talk to Magellan team at Inria on “Sustainable and Resilient Distributed Computing”. |
| Aug 8, 2025 | Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (PC) of ACM/IFIP Middleware 2026. |
| Aug 1, 2025 | Serving on the Artifact Evaluation (AE) Committee for SOSP 2025. |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Presented CarbonEdge at HPDC in Notre Dame, IN, USA. |