Group Members

The following is a subset of our rapidly growing team. We are continuously looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (join us) !

Principal Investigator (PI)

Dr. Zhuotao Liu

Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
Distinguished Researcher, Tsinghua University

email: zhuotaoliu [at] tsinghua [dot] edu [dot] cn, zhuotaoliu [at] gmail [dot] com

  • Former Technical Lead @ Google’s NetInfra (Network Infrastructure) and GGN (Google Global Networking) team
  • Two-time "Feats of Engineering" award at Google for Datacenter Networking
  • Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2017
  • Chiang Chen Overseas Graduate Fellowship from 2013 to 2015
  • B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), 2012
  • National Scholarship for three consecutive years (2009, 2010, 2011)

Ph.D. Students

Dai Zhang

Ph.D. Student, co-advised with Prof. Mingwei Xu

  • Working on Applied ML in Distributed Systems and Networking
  • B.E. in Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

Jiang Li

Ph.D. Student, co-advised with Prof. Mingwei Xu

  • Working on Next-gen Network Infra; Blockchains
  • B.E. in Computer Science and Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Zhenhua Zou

Ph.D. Student

  • Working on Privacy Computing; Responsible/Trust AI
  • B.E. in Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

Jinzhu Yan

Ph.D. Student

  • Working on Applied ML; Privacy Computing
  • B.E. in Computer Science and Technology, Beihang University

Haotian Xu

Ph.D. Student

  • Working on ML in Network Devices
  • B.E. in Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

Yi He

Ph.D. Student, co-advised with Prof. Qi Li

  • Working on Systems Security
  • B.E. in Computer Science, Wuhan University

Master Students

Qi Li

Master Student

  • Working on Privacy Computing; Blockchain
  • B.E. in Information Security, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Xuanqi Liu

Master Student

  • Working on ML Systems; Privacy Computing
  • B.E. in Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

Chenyang Li

Master Student

  • Working on Hardware Acceleration of Privacy Computing
  • B.E. in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University

Undergraduate Students / External Interns

We also work with a group of undergraduates at Tsinghua on Student Research Training (SRT) programs. External interns are welcome to participate in our weekly research meetings.

External Collaborators

Yih-Chun Hu @ UIUC

Xusheng Xiao @ Case Western Reserve University

Bihan Wen @ Nanyang Technological University

Haoyu Wang @ Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Peng Gao @ Virginia Tech

Prateek Mittal @ Princeton University

And many others …