Xiaoyuan Liu (刘啸远)

Ph.D. Student, EECS, UC Berkeley

Email: xiaoyuanliu [at] berkeley [dot] edu

Phone: +86 132 - 6229 - 0218

Website: littleround.cn

Blog: littleround.cn/main

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Dawn Song. Before joining UC Berkeley, I received my bachelor’s degree from ACM Honors Class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I am a member of Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI), Initiative for Cryptocurrencies & Contracts Lab (IC3), and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab.

  • Research Interest: I am broadly interested in computer security, systems, and machine learning, especially building systems that enable secure and privacy-preserving data processing or solve real-world security problems.

News

  • Jan 2024: Presenting on Decentralized LLM serving at IC3 Winter Retreat.
  • Jul 2023: Honored to be supported by the JP Morgan Chase PhD Fellowship 2023.
  • Nov 2022: “The practical use of differential privacy across the enterprise is within striking distance.” Check out our paper accepted to PETS 2022.
  • Oct 2022: Released CoLink, a project focusing on creating decentralized programming abstractions. Check out our talk at NIPS 2022 Workshop.

Publications

  • Effective and Efficient Federated Tree Learning on Hybrid Data [pdf]

    Qinbin Li, Chulin Xie, Xiaojun Xu, Xiaoyuan Liu, Ce Zhang, Bo Li, Bingsheng He, Dawn Song
    [ICLR 2024]

  • Lessons Learned: Surveying the Practicality of Differential Privacy in the Industry [pdf]

    Gonzalo Munilla Garrido, Xiaoyuan Liu, Florian Matthes, Dawn Song
    [PETS 2023]

  • A System for Automated Open-Source Threat Intelligence Gathering and Management [pdf] [video]

    Peng Gao*, Xiaoyuan Liu* (equal contribution), Edward Choi, Bhavna Soman, Chinmaya Mishra, Kate Farris, Dawn Song
    [SIGMOD 2021 demo]

  • Enabling Efficient Cyber Threat Hunting With Cyber Threat Intelligence [pdf]

    Peng Gao, Fei Shao, Xiaoyuan Liu, Xusheng Xiao, Zheng Qin, Fengyuan Xu, Prateek Mittal, Sanjeev R Kulkarni, Dawn Song
    [ICDE 2021]

  • A System for Efficiently Hunting for Cyber Threats in Computer Systems Using Threat Intelligence [pdf] [video]

    Peng Gao, Fei Shao, Xiaoyuan Liu, Xusheng Xiao, Haoyuan Liu, Zheng Qin, Fengyuan Xu, Prateek Mittal, Sanjeev R Kulkarni, Dawn Song
    [ICDE 2021 demo]

  • BeeTrace: A Unified Platform for Secure Contact Tracing that Breaks Data Silos [pdf]

    Xiaoyuan Liu, Ni Trieu, Evgenios M Kornaropoulos, Dawn Song
    [IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 2020]

  • Distributed Structured Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Universal Dialogue Management [pdf]
  • Pretrained Transformers Improve Out-of-Distribution Robustness [pdf] [code]

    Dan Hendrycks*, Xiaoyuan Liu* (equal contribution), Eric Wallace, Adam Dziedzic, Rishabh Krishnan, Dawn Song
    [ACL 2020]

  • Structured Hierarchical Dialogue Policy with Graph Neural Networks

    Zhi Chen, Xiaoyuan Liu, Lu Chen, Kai Yu

Professional Services

Selected Projects

Education

UC Berkeley

Ph.D. Student, EECS

2020 - 2026 (Expected)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Honors Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng. Hons) in Computer Science

2016 - 2020

Honors

  • JP Morgan Chase PhD Fellowship [2023]
  • Berkeley EECS Department Fellowship [2020]
  • Shanghai Excellent Graduate [2020]
  • Outstanding Student Cadre (Top 0.8%, SJTU) [2018]
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship [2017, 2018, 2019]
  • Zhiyuan Honorary Scholarship [2016, 2017, 2018, 2019]
  • KoGuan Encouragement Scholarship (Top 0.3%, SJTU) [2017]
  • The 32nd China’s National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) Silver Medal [2015]

Misc

Materials

Teaching Experience

Activities

  • Student Council Vice President, Zhiyuan College, SJTU - 2018
  • Head of the Department of Culture and Sports, Student Union, Zhiyuan College, SJTU - 2017