Yiming Su
B.Sc. in Computer Science, The University of Chicago
whoami
I'm a first-year Computer Science PhD at The University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. I currently work with Prof. Tianyin Xu on cloud systems reliability.
I'm interested in the reliability of all kinds of systems:
- Distributed systems: Zookeeper, Cassandra, etc.
- AIOps/Agentic systems: CrewAI, etc.
- Microservice architecture
- ...
Generally, I'm mostly interested in these questions, and I plan to use my PhD thesis to answer them:
- Does the system break?
- Why/How does the system break?
- How can we patch the failures or prevent them?
- How can we build systems that doesn't break as frequent? or potentially, at all?
A short bio can be found here.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science (current student), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024-?
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, The University of Chicago, 2020-2024
Publications
- Bogdan Alexandru Stoica*, Utsav Sethi*, Yiming Su, Cyrus Zhou, Shan Lu, Jonathan Mace, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath. 2024. If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try, Again...? Insights and LLM-informed Tooling for Detecting Retry Bugs in Software Systems In Proceedings of the 30th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '24) read here
(*: equal contrubution) - Yiming Su, Chengcheng Wan, Utsav Sethi, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, and Suman Nath. 2023. HotGPT: How to Make Software Documentation More Useful with a Large Language Model? In Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 87–93. https://doi.org/10.1145/3593856.3595910 read here
Talks
- tbd
Services
- OSDI '25 Artifact Evaluation Committee
Random things
Misc. images I collected during PhDMisc. quotes
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