Xinyu Lian
I am a second-year CS Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with Minjia Zhang. I study machine learning systems and reinforcement learning, with a current focus on efficient & scalable RL training and agentic RL.
🙋 Feel free to reach out via email if you are interested in my research.
🔥 News
| Apr 1, 2026 | Our work SuperOffload received the ASPLOS 2026 Best Paper Honorable Mention. |
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| Mar 2, 2026 | I am honored to receive the Microsoft Research Fellowship. |
| Feb 3, 2025 | I am honored to receive the Amazon AI PhD Fellowship. |
📃 Selected Papers
- ASPLOS’26


SuperOffload: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale LLM Training on SuperchipsProceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System. 2026🏆 ASPLOS 2026 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention
Featured by PyTorch Official Blog
Presented at PyTorch Conference 2025, Ray x DeepSpeed Meetup
- ATC’25


Universal Checkpointing: A Flexible and Efficient Distributed Checkpointing System for Large-Scale DNN Training with Reconfigurable ParallelismProceedings of the 2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 2025Adopted by Microsoft for Phi-3.5-MoE (42B) Pre-Training
Adopted by BigScience for BLOOM (176B) Pre-Training
Adopted by StepFun and Baidu for multimodal model post-training.
Presented at PyTorch Day 2025, FMS 2025, SDC 2025
🏅 Awards & Honors
Amazon AI PhD Fellowship ($70K)
ASPLOS 2026 Travel Grant
USENIX ATC 2025 Travel Grant
SIGSOFT CAPS Travel Grant
Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang Province
🏖️ Service
Organizer: Brett Daniel Software Engineering Seminar
Program Committee: MSR'25
Reviewer: ICML, NeurIPS, TSE
Artifact Evaluation Committee: SOSP'24