Asst. CS Prof. @umdcs, @umiacs. Scalable Systems, Verifiable Intelligence. Previously @bu_ece, @CarnegieMellon, @JHUCompSci.
College Park, MD
Joined September 2009
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Introducing ππ π, ππ²π²π½ π πΌπ±π²πΉ ππ»ππ½π²π°ππΆπΌπ», as an open-source system for collecting, storing, and analyzing real-time AI-native data for open models.
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Penn CIS is hiring in security and AI systems! You can find the application here: cis.upenn.edu/open-faculty-pβ¦.
As in prior years, the committee doesn't care if you have few or many papers. They focus only on 2 or 3, so make sure that your application focuses on your best work!
Alan Liu ποΈ retweeted
We join the Ashar family and @UMPD in issuing a loud and clear call for tips or info that may help us find Dilan. Our hearts are with the Ashar family, as they are part of our Terrapin family.
Alan Liu ποΈ retweeted
A campus wide email was sent this evening, providing an investigative update in the critical missing student case of 22-year-old, Dilan Shaan Ashar. To read the full message and see the video from Dilan's family, visit umpdnews.umd.edu/investigatiβ¦
Please help us find Dilan.
#UMD
ALT Critical missing student - Photo of a man wearing a black University of Maryland hooded sweatshirt, grey sweatpants, and white shoes.
ALT Critical missing student - Photo of a man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, grey sweatpants, and white shoes.
Alan Liu ποΈ retweeted
If you are a recent ECE/CS/CE PhD grad or soon to graduate, and interested in pursuing a teaching career, please consider applying to our Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship @CMU_ECE apply.interfolio.com/193308
Feel free to share with anyone you think would be a good fit!
Alan Liu ποΈ retweeted
Introducing ππ π, ππ²π²π½ π πΌπ±π²πΉ ππ»ππ½π²π°ππΆπΌπ», as an open-source system for collecting, storing, and analyzing real-time AI-native data for open models.
π’ My lab at the University of Maryland, College Park is recruiting 1β2 postdoctoral researchers.
We welcome applicants with backgrounds in areas including:
- Systems and high-performance computing
- Data systems and databases
- Agentic AI
- AI for biomedical science (a plus)
DMI turns internal states from an offline research artifact into a live systems signal, enabling large-scale interpretability, real-time monitoring, steering, debugging, and new applications built directly on what is happening inside the model.
Technical report: arxiv.org/abs/2605.11093
OSS proj: github.com/ProjectDMX/DMI
Project page: projectdmx.github.io/
Alan Liu ποΈ retweeted
π― AIChilles uncovers hidden weaknesses in AI-evolved programs
[ADRS Blog #24] We feature AIChilles, an automated framework that finds valid workloads where AI-evolved programs regress in correctness, runtime, memory, or output quality. Across 30 evolved programs, AIChilles uncovers 49 distinct hidden weaknessesβrevealing that large benchmark gains may not hold on unseen workloads.
βοΈ Read the blog: ucbskyadrs.github.io/blog/aiβ¦
π ADRS Blog Series: ucbskyadrs.github.io/
π AIChilles Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.15834
π©βπ» AIChilles Code: github.com/lesleychou/aichilβ¦
π Project Page: lesleychou.github.io/aichillβ¦
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π @UofMaryland Computer Science recognized its 2025β26 teaching award recipients: @Alan_Lau, Christopher Kauffman, Mario Alvarenga, Segev Elisha-Cliff Elazar Mittelman and Amrit Magesh.
Read more: go.umd.edu/TeachingAwards202β¦
It is an absolute honor to receive an @NSF CAREER Award. My group will work on approximation-first telemetry lifecycle to observe and manage the infrastructure powering modern AI and cloud services. I am truly grateful to NSF, my students, collaborators, mentors and colleagues.
Alan Liu (@Alan_Lau), an assistant professor of computer science at @UofMaryland, has received an @NSF CAREER award to develop new telemetry methods that can help operators monitor large-scale AI and cloud systems more efficiently.
Read more: go.umd.edu/Liu-5-2026
π’ The 3rd SIGCOMM Workshop on Networks for AI Computing (NAIC '26) invites submissions on emerging topics at the intersection of networking and AI systems.Β conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcβ¦. Submission deadline is May 4, 2026 AOE.
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How safe are #AI agents managing critical systems? @UofMaryland CS Ph.D. student Yajie Zhou developed NetArena, a benchmark that tests the reliability and safety of AI agents in network operations. Her work was accepted to ICLR 2026.
Read more: go.umd.edu/Zhou-3-2026
As we center the era of agents, the entire data lifecycle must evolve to support new workloads at faster-than-ever timescales!
ASAPQuery/ @milindsriv @Alan_Lau @zeying_zhu @vyas_sekar / (@CarnegieMellon) This infrastructure replaces expensive and slow βscan everythingβ data analysis with lightweight summaries, so teams (and AI agents) can get useful answers from massive datasets much faster and at lower cost.
