Laiping Zhao

Laiping Zhao

Professor

(英才教授、博士生导师)

Tank Lab

College of Intelligence and Computing

Tianjin University

Biography

Laiping Zhao (赵来平), Full Professor (Yingcai Professor), Doctoral Supervisor in the College of Intelligence and Computing at Tianjin University, Associate Dean of the School of Software. National-level Talent. Executive Committee Member of CCF Computer Architecture Technical Committee and System Software Technical Committee.

His current research interests include intelligent computing systems and operating systems. He has published over 50 papers in prestigious journals and conferences in the computing systems field, including top-tier conferences and journals such as ASPLOS, SC, TOCS, ATC, and EuroSys, representing Tianjin University’s first breakthroughs in international top-tier conferences including ASPLOS, HPCA, ATC, EuroSys, and HPDC. He has been granted over 30 national invention patents and led over 10 projects including national-level young talent programs, key R&D program topics, and provincial major special projects.

His research has received numerous prestigious awards, including Best Paper Finalist at SC'21 (CCF-A), Best Paper Award at ICPADS'22, Best Paper Award at IFIP NPC'24, Best Student Paper Award at AINA'12, and Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Progress Special Prize in 2021 for the research achievement “Software-Defined Cloud Computing Resource Management Platform”.

He is the Chair of Tianjin University’s OpenHarmony Club, organizing faculty and students to carry out industry-academia-research collaboration, with related achievements applied in multiple courses at Tianjin University. The student teams he guides work on operating system-related technologies and participate in high-level competitions, winning awards including National Special Prize at the “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition (2024, 2025), National First Prize at the Graduate Open Source Operating System Competition (2025), National Second Prize at the National College Students Computer System Capability Competition - Operating System Design Competition (2024), and Tianjin Gold Award at the China International “Internet+” College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (2023).

Interests
  • Cloud computing systems
  • Intelligent computing systems
Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2012

    Kyushu university

  • B&M.Eng in Software engineering, 2009

    Dalian Unversity of Technology

Publications
Galaxy: An Elastic FaaS Control Plane for Highly-Scalable Instance Scheduling
Yiming Li , Laiping Zhao , Shize Bian , Yuhang Zhang , Guowei Liu , Huahui Yang , Mingyang Zhao , Keqiu Li
IEEE Transactions on Computers ( Early Access ) , 2025
AlloyStack: A Library Operating System for Serverless Workflow Applications
Jianing You , Kang Chen , Laiping Zhao , Yiming Li , Yichi Chen , Yuxuan Du , Yanjie Wang , Luhang Wen , Keyang Hu , Keqiu Li
EuroSys ‘25: Proceedings of the Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems, Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 30 - April 3, 2025 , 2025
Synergy: Collaborating Centralized and Local Scheduling for Serverless Functions
Hanmei Chen , Laiping Zhao , Yanan Yang , Jianing You , Keqiu Li
30th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2024, Belgrade, Serbia, October 10-14, 2024 , 2024
Impromptu Cybercrime Euphemism Detection
Xiang Li , Yucheng Zhou , Laiping Zhao , Jing Li , Fangming Liu
CoRR , 2024
FUYAO: DPU-enabled Direct Data Transfer for Serverless Computing
Guowei Liu , Laiping Zhao , Yiming Li , Zhaolin Duan , Sheng Chen , Yitao Hu , Zhiyuan Su , Wenyu Qu
Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 3, ASPLOS 2024, La Jolla, CA, USA, 27 April 2024- 1 May 2024 , 2024
Efficient Online Scheduling of Service Function Chains Across Multiple Geo-Distributed Regions
Rui He , Bangbang Ren , Junjie Xie , Deke Guo , Laiping Zhao
IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag. , 2024
Component-distinguishable Co-location and Resource Reclamation for High-throughput Computing
Laiping Zhao , Yushuai Cui , Yanan Yang , Xiaobo Zhou , Tie Qiu , Keqiu Li , Yungang Bao
ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. , 2024
Accelerating Cold Start of Thread-level Sandbox Using Snapshot and tfork
Jianing You , Yukang Chu , Laiping Zhao
30th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2024, Belgrade, Serbia, October 10-14, 2024 , 2024
A Game-Based Adversarial DGA Detection Scheme Using Multi-Level Incremental Random Forest
Lihai Nie , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li , Xiaoyang Shan , Tie Qiu
IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng. , 2024
Robust website fingerprinting through resource loading sequence
Changzhi Li , Lihai Nie , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li
World Wide Web (WWW) , 2023
Rethinking Deployment for Serverless Functions: A Performance-First Perspective
Yiming Li , Laiping Zhao , Yanan Yang , Wenyu Qu
Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2023, Denver, CO, USA, November 12-17, 2023 , 2023
PKDGA: A Partial Knowledge-Based Domain Generation Algorithm for Botnets
Lihai Nie , Xiaoyang Shan , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. , 2023
Low-cost crossed probing path planning for network failure localization
Hongyun Gao , Laiping Zhao , Sheng Chen , Keqiu Li
World Wide Web (WWW) , 2023
High-throughput Sampling, Communicating and Training for Reinforcement Learning Systems
Laiping Zhao , Xinan Dai , Zhixin Zhao , Yusong Xin , Yitao Hu , Jun Qian , Jun Yao , Keqiu Li
31st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2023, Orlando, FL, USA, June 19-21, 2023 , 2023
Flame: A Centralized Cache Controller for Serverless Computing
Yanan Yang , Laiping Zhao , Yiming Li , Shihao Wu , Yuechan Hao , Yuchi Ma , Keqiu Li
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 4, ASPLOS 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 25-29, 2023 , 2023
A reinforcement learning method for scheduling service function chains with multi-resource constraints
Rui He , Bangbang Ren , Junjie Xie , Deke Guo , Yuwen Zhou , Laiping Zhao , Yong Li
Comput. Networks , 2023
Tetris: Memory-efficient Serverless Inference through Tensor Sharing
Jie Li , Laiping Zhao , Yanan Yang , Kunlin Zhan , Keqiu Li
Proceedings of the 2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 2022, Carlsbad, CA, USA, July 11-13, 2022 , 2022
TailCmp - A Tail Latency Evaluation Solution of Public Cloud and Labeled von Neumann Architecture based Cloud Prototype
Xiangyu Kong , Xuesong Gao , Shibao Pan , Yizhi Zhou , Yanan Yang , Laiping Zhao , Heng Qi
IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Sustainable Computing & Communications, Social Computing & Networking, ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom 2022, Melbourne, Australia, December 17-19, 2022 , 2022
PKDGA: A Partial Knowledge-based Domain Generation Algorithm for Botnets
Lihai Nie , Xiaoyang Shan , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li
CoRR , 2022
Multi-Resource Scheduling for Multiple Service Function Chains with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Rui He , Bangbang Ren , Junjie Xie , Deke Guo , Laiping Zhao
28th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2022, Nanjing, China, January 10-12, 2023 , 2022
Maxwell's Demon in Tail-tolerant, Resource-efficient Serverless Computing
Huanyu Zhang , Wenhao Huang , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li
28th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2022, Nanjing, China, January 10-12, 2023 , 2022
Less Provisioning: A Hybrid Resource Scaling Engine for Long-Running Services With Tail Latency Guarantees
Binlei Cai , Keqiu Li , Laiping Zhao , Rongqi Zhang
IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput. , 2022
Learning-Driven Cloud Resource Provision Policy for Content Providers With Competitor
Xiaobo Zhou , Xiaodong Dong , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li , Tie Qiu
IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput. , 2022
Intelligent Fingerprint-Based Localization Scheme Using CSI Images for Internet of Things
Xiaoqiang Zhu , Wenyu Qu , Xiaobo Zhou , Laiping Zhao , Zhaolong Ning , Tie Qiu
IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng. , 2022
INFless: a native serverless system for low-latency, high-throughput inference
Yanan Yang , Laiping Zhao , Yiming Li , Huanyu Zhang , Jie Li , Mingyang Zhao , Xingzhen Chen , Keqiu Li
ASPLOS ‘22: 27th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, 28 February 2022 - 4 March 2022 , 2022
Distributed Traffic Engineering for Multi-Domain SDN Without Trust
Yangyang Liu , Laiping Zhao , Jingyu Hua , Wenyu Qu , Suohao Zhang , Sheng Zhong
IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput. , 2022
An Online Cost-Efficient Transmission Scheme for Information-Agnostic Traffic in Inter-Datacenter Networks
Xiaodong Dong , Laiping Zhao , Xiaobo Zhou , Keqiu Li , Deke Guo , Tie Qiu
IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput. , 2022
A Trigonometric Function Instruction Set Extension Method Based on RISC-V
Zhanyuan Gao , Laiping Zhao , Haonan Chen
22nd IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2022, Zhuhai, China, June 26-28, 2022 , 2022
Understanding, predicting and scheduling serverless workloads under partial interference
Laiping Zhao , Yanan Yang , Yiming Li , Xian Zhou , Keqiu Li
International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2021, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, November 14-19, 2021 , 2021
Robust Anomaly Detection Using Reconstructive Adversarial Network
Lihai Nie , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li
IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag. , 2021
RLTree: Website Fingerprinting Through Resource Loading Tree
Changzhi Li , Lihai Nie , Laiping Zhao
Network and System Security - 15th International Conference, NSS 2021, Tianjin, China, October 23, 2021, Proceedings , 2021
RAEF: Energy-efficient Resource Allocation through Energy Fungibility in Serverless
Xuechao Jia , Laiping Zhao
27th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2021, Beijing, China, December 14-16, 2021 , 2021
Edge Intelligent Networking Optimization for Internet of Things in Smart City
Ning Chen , Tie Qiu , Laiping Zhao , Xiaobo Zhou , Huansheng Ning
IEEE Wirel. Commun. , 2021
Dynamically Transient Social Community Detection for Mobile Social Networks
Xiaoyan Bi , Tie Qiu , Wenyu Qu , Laiping Zhao , Xiaobo Zhou , Dapeng Oliver Wu
IEEE Internet Things J. , 2021
$PSeer$: Performance Prediction for Partially Co-located Distributed Deep Learning
Weijia Ding , Ziwei Ding , Laiping Zhao , Tie Qiu
2021 IEEE 23rd Int Conf on High Performance Computing & Communications; 7th Int Conf on Data Science & Systems; 19th Int Conf on Smart City; 7th Int Conf on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud & Big Data Systems & Application (HPCC/DSS/SmartCity/DependSys), Haikou, Hainan, China, December 20-22, 2021 , 2021
XShot: Light-weight Link Failure Localization using Crossed Probing Cycles in SDN
Hongyun Gao , Laiping Zhao , Huanbin Wang , Zhao Tian , Lihai Nie , Keqiu Li
ICPP 2020: 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing, Edmonton, AB, Canada, August 17-20, 2020 , 2020
Rhythm: component-distinguishable workload deployment in datacenters
Laiping Zhao , Yanan Yang , Kaixuan Zhang , Xiaobo Zhou , Tie Qiu , Keqiu Li , Yungang Bao
EuroSys ‘20: Fifteenth EuroSys Conference 2020, Heraklion, Greece, April 27-30, 2020 , 2020
Optimizing Geo-Distributed Data Analytics with Coordinated Task Scheduling and Routing
Laiping Zhao , Yanan Yang , Ali Munir , Alex X. Liu , Yue Li , Wenyu Qu
IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. , 2020
NetCruiser: Localize Network Failures by Learning from Latency Data
Haoshi Ren , Lihai Nie , Hongyun Gao , Laiping Zhao , Jianchao Diao
2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, SmartIoT 2020, Beijing, China, August 14-16, 2020 , 2020
Indoor Intelligent Fingerprint-Based Localization: Principles, Approaches and Challenges
Xiaoqiang Zhu , Wenyu Qu , Tie Qiu , Laiping Zhao , Mohammed Atiquzzaman , Dapeng Oliver Wu
IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials , 2020
Glad: Global And Local Anomaly Detection
Lihai Nie , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2020, London, UK, July 6-10, 2020 , 2020
Approximation of Probabilistic Maximal Frequent Itemset Mining Over Uncertain Sensed Data
Sheng Chen , Lihai Nie , Xiaoyi Tao , Zhiyang Li , Laiping Zhao
IEEE Access , 2020
A Novel Blockchain Network Structure Based on Logical Nodes
Jiancheng Chi , Tie Qiu , Chaokun Zhang , Laiping Zhao
Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications - 15th International Conference, WASA 2020, Qingdao, China, September 13-15, 2020, Proceedings, Part I , 2020
A holistic cross-layer optimization approach for mitigating stragglers in in-memory data processing
Laiping Zhao , Yiming Li , Françoise Fogelman-Soulié , Keqiu Li
J. Syst. Archit. , 2020
QIMS: QoE-Centric Information-Agnostic Mix-Flows Scheduling in SD-WAN
Xiaodong Dong , Ning Wei , Xiaobo Zhou , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li
21st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; 17th IEEE International Conference on Smart City; 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems, HPCC/SmartCity/DSS 2019, Zhangjiajie, China, August 10-12, 2019 , 2019
On evaluating the resource usage effectiveness of multi-tenant cloud storage
Binlei Cai , Laiping Zhao , Xiaobo Zhou , Rongqi Zhang , Keqiu Li
J. Syst. Archit. , 2019
ElaX: Provisioning Resource Elastically for Containerized Online Cloud Services
Yanan Yang , Laiping Zhao , Zhigang Li , Lihai Nie , Peiqi Chen , Keqiu Li
21st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; 17th IEEE International Conference on Smart City; 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems, HPCC/SmartCity/DSS 2019, Zhangjiajie, China, August 10-12, 2019 , 2019
Effective Straggler Mitigation with Cross-Layer Interference-Aware Optimization
Laiping Zhao , Yiming Li , Françoise Fogelman-Soulié
25th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2019, Tianjin, China, December 4-6, 2019 , 2019
Distributed Traffic Engineering for Multi-Domain Software Defined Networks
Laiping Zhao , Jingyu Hua , Yangyang Liu , Wenyu Qu , Suohao Zhang , Sheng Zhong
39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2019, Dallas, TX, USA, July 7-10, 2019 , 2019
Deeplive: QoE Optimization for Live Video Streaming through Deep Reinforcement Learning
Zhao Tian , Laiping Zhao , Lihai Nie , Peiqi Chen , Shuyu Chen
25th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2019, Tianjin, China, December 4-6, 2019 , 2019
Cloud Resource Provision of Competitive Content Providers: Models and Analysis
Xiaodong Dong , Xiaobo Zhou , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li
2019 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Sustainable Computing & Communications, Social Computing & Networking, ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom 2019, Xiamen, China, December 16-18, 2019 , 2019
Topology-Preserving Traffic Engineering for Hierarchical Multi-Domain SDN
Jingyu Hua , Laiping Zhao , Suohao Zhang , Yangyang Liu , Xin Ge , Sheng Zhong
Comput. Networks , 2018
Robust Caching Control in Crowdsourced Content-Centric Mobile Networking
Chengming Li , Shimin Gong , Zhaolong Ning , Laiping Zhao , Qingshan Jiang , Pan Zhou
IEEE Access , 2018
More Requests, Less Cost: Uncertain Inter-Datacenter Traffic Transmission with Multi-Tier Pricing
Xiaodong Dong , Sheng Chen , Laiping Zhao , Xiaobo Zhou , Heng Qi , Keqiu Li
J. Comput. Sci. Technol. , 2018
Less Provisioning: A Fine-grained Resource Scaling Engine for Long-running Services with Tail Latency Guarantees
Binlei Cai , Rongqi Zhang , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li
Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 2018, Eugene, OR, USA, August 13-16, 2018 , 2018
Experience-Availability Analysis of Online Cloud Services using Stochastic Models
Yue Cao , Laiping Zhao , Rongqi Zhang , Yanan Yang , Xiaobo Zhou , Keqiu Li
2018 IFIP Networking Conference and Workshops, Networking 2018, Zurich, Switzerland, May 14-16, 2018 , 2018
A Stochastic Model for Analyzing Tail Latency of Multi-Tier Online Cloud Services
Rongqi Zhang , Yanan Yang , Laiping Zhao , Xiaobo Zhou , Binlei Cai , Keqiu Li
9th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming, PAAP 2018, Taipei, Taiwan, December 26-28, 2018 , 2018
Slow or Down?: Seem to Be the Same for Cloud Users
Laiping Zhao , Xiaobo Zhou
Proceedings of the first Workshop on Emerging Technologies for software-defined and reconfigurable hardware-accelerated Cloud Datacenters, ETCD@ASPLOS 2017, Xi’an, China, April 8, 2017 , 2017
Online Virtual Machine Placement for Increasing Cloud Provider's Revenue
Laiping Zhao , Liangfu Lu , Zhou Jin , Ce Yu
IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput. , 2017
Foreword to the special issue on parallel and distributed computing with its applications
Xiaobo Zhou , Laiping Zhao
Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. , 2017
Experience Availability: Tail-Latency Oriented Availability in Software-Defined Cloud Computing
Binlei Cai , Rongqi Zhang , Xiaobo Zhou , Laiping Zhao , Keqiu Li
J. Comput. Sci. Technol. , 2017
Fast Big Data Analysis in Geo-Distributed Cloud
Yue Li , Laiping Zhao , Chenzhou Cui , Ce Yu
2016 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2016, Taipei, Taiwan, September 12-16, 2016 , 2016
Traffic engineering in hierarchical SDN control plane
Laiping Zhao , Jingyu Hua , Xin Ge , Sheng Zhong
23rd IEEE International Symposium on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2015, Portland, OR, USA, June 15-16, 2015 , 2015
Joint Scheduling of Data and Computation in Geo-Distributed Cloud Systems
Lingyan Yin , Jizhou Sun , Laiping Zhao , Chenzhou Cui , Jian Xiao , Ce Yu
15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, CCGrid 2015, Shenzhen, China, May 4-7, 2015 , 2015
Reliable workflow scheduling with less resource redundancy
Laiping Zhao , Yizhi Ren , Kouichi Sakurai
Parallel Comput. , 2013
On Revenue Driven Server Management in Cloud
Laiping Zhao , Kouichi Sakurai
CLOSER 2012 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, Porto, Portugal, 18 - 21 April, 2012 , 2012
Improving Cost-Efficiency through Failure-Aware Server Management and Scheduling in Cloud
Laiping Zhao , Kouichi Sakurai
Cloud Computing and Services Science - Second International Conference, CLOSER 2012, Porto, Portugal, April 18-21, 2012. Revised Selected Papers , 2012
Flexible service selection with user-specific QoS support in service-oriented architecture
Laiping Zhao , Yizhi Ren , Mingchu Li , Kouichi Sakurai
J. Netw. Comput. Appl. , 2012
A Resource Minimizing Scheduling Algorithm with Ensuring the Deadline and Reliability in Heterogeneous Systems
Laiping Zhao , Yizhi Ren , Kouichi Sakurai
25th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2011, Biopolis, Singapore, March 22-25, 2011 , 2011
SPSE: A flexible QoS-based service scheduling algorithm for service-oriented Grid
Laiping Zhao , Yizhi Ren , Mingchu Li , Kouichi Sakurai
24th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, IPDPS 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 19-23 April 2010 - Workshop Proceedings , 2010
Fault tolerant scheduling with dynamic number of replicas in heterogeneous system
Laiping Zhao , Yizhi Ren , Yang Xiang , Kouichi Sakurai
12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2010, 1-3 September 2010, Melbourne, Australia , 2010