Scofield Zhengqing Liu

πŸ“£ 03/26 - DeterV is accepted to EuroSys'26 Posters!

πŸ“£ 12/25 - SyncWise is accepted to NSDI'26!

πŸ“£ 11/24 - DORADD is accepted to PPoPP'25!


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About

I am a Ph.D. student at Large-Scale Data & Systems Group (LSDS) of Imperial College London, advised by amazing Marios Kogias. I am broadly interested in datacenter systems, distributed systems, databases, and systems verification. My research explores determinism as a core systems primitive, which guarantees replication consistency, reproducibility, and eases debugging, can be made practical at high performance for datacenter-scale services. I also work closely with Mysten Labs in building execution engines for blockchain infrastructure.

Prior to joining Imperial, I was fortunate to work with Yiting Xia (MPI-INF) on hardware-accelerated datacenter networks, Marc Shapiro (INRIA) on actor-based distributed query processing, and Romain Jacob (ETHz) on P4-based failure-rerouting. I obtained M.S. (with distinction) from Γ‰cole Polytechnique πŸ‡¨πŸ‡΅ and B.S. from South China University of Technology.

Selected Publications

DORADD: Deterministic Parallel Execution in the Era of Microsecond-Scale Computing
Zhengqing Liu, Musa Unal, Matthew J. Parkinson, Marios Kogias.
ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'25).
🀝 In collaboration with Microsoft Research (Verona team).
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