Lianjie Cao

Researcher@HPE Labs.

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Office Address:

820 N McCarthy Blvd

Milpitas, CA 95035

Lianjie is a researcher at Networking and Distributed Systems Labs (NDSL) of HPE Labs. He received his Ph.D. degree from Computer Science Department at Purdue University with Professor Sonia Fahmy.

His research interests mainly focus on resource allocation and performance optimization of computer networks, distributed systems, storage systems, and ML systems. He has worked on network emulation, network functions virtualization (NFV), serverless computing, microservices, machine learning systems, persistent memory, Compute Express Link (CXL), and agentic AI.

Selected Publications

  1. MLSys
    Hippocampus: An Efficient and Scalable Memory Module for Agentic AI
    Yi Li, Lianjie Cao, Faraz Ahmed, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 9th Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys) 2026
  2. CoNEXT
    Maestro: QoE-Aware Dynamic Resource Allocation in Wi-Fi Networks
    Umakant Kulkarni, Khaled Diab, Lianjie Cao, and 4 more authors
    Proceedings The 21st International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) 2025
  3. ATC
    Conspirator: SmartNIC-Aided Control Plane for Distributed ML Workloads
    Yunming Xiao, Diman Zad Tootaghaj, Aditya Dhakal, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2024 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2024
  4. MLSys
    SLA-Driven ML Inference Framework for Clouds with Heterogeneous Accelerators
    Junguk Cho, Diman Zad Tootaghaj, Lianjie Cao, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 5th Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys) 2022
  5. CoNEXT
    Co-locating Containerized Workload Using Service Mesh Telemetry
    Lianjie Cao, and Puneet Sharma
    In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) 2021
  6. ANCS
    Data-driven Resource Flexing for Network Functions Virtualization
    Lianjie Cao, Sonia Fahmy, Puneet Sharma, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS) 2018
  7. NFV-SDN
    NFV-VITAL: A Framework for Characterizing the Performance of Virtual Network FunctionsBest Paper Award
    Lianjie Cao, Puneet Sharma, Sonia Fahmy, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN) 2015