Xinyu Lian

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I’m a 1st-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I study efficient machine learning systems, effective efficiency algorithms, and LLM applications for systems.

🙋 Feel free to send me an email if you are interested in my research.

🔥 News

Jul 3, 2024 Our work Ciri has been accepted by ICSE’25!
Apr 20, 2024 I will join CS@UIUC as a PhD student in 2024 Fall. See you in the cornfields!
Apr 16, 2024 Our work Ctest4J has been accepted by FSE’24!

📃 Selected Papers

  1. Pre-print
    Universal Checkpointing: Efficient and Flexible Checkpointing for Large Scale Distributed Training
    Xinyu Lian, Sam Ade Jacobs, Lev Kurilenko, Masahiro Tanaka, Stas Bekman, Olatunji Ruwase,  and Minjia Zhang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.18820. 2024
  2. ICSE’25
    Large Language Models as Configuration Validators
    Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering. 2025
  3. FSE’24
    Ctest4J: A Practical Configuration Testing Framework for Java
    Shuai WangXinyu Lian, Qingyu Li, Darko Marinov,  and Tianyin Xu
    Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Demo Papers. 2024
  4. ICSE’23
    Atifact AvailableAtifact Reusable
    Test Selection for Unified Regression Testing
    Shuai WangXinyu LianDarko Marinov,  and Tianyin Xu
    Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering. 2023
*SE conferences like ICSE do not badge for reproducibility at artifact evaluation as it requires third-party re-implementation. Nonetheless, we got all badges we can get.


🏖️ Services

Organizer: Brett Daniel Software Engineering Seminar
Program Committee: MSR'25
Journal Reviewer: TSE
Artifact Evaluation Committee: SOSP'24
Volunteer: ICSE'23