Laiping Zhao

Laiping Zhao

Professor

(英才教授、博士生导师)

Tank Lab

College of Intelligence and Computing

Tianjin University

Biography

Laiping Zhao (赵来平) is a Full Professor in the College of Intelligence and Computing at Tianjin University, where he also serves as the Associate Dean of the School of Software.

His current research interests include LLM systems and Cloud computing systems. He has published in prestigious conferences (such as SC, ASPLOS, HPCA, ATC, and EuroSys) and top-tier journals (such as IEEE TPDS, IEEE TC and ACM TOCS). His research received Best Paper Award at IFIP NPC'24, Best Paper Award at ICPADS'22, Best Paper Finalist at SC'21, Best Student Paper Award at AINA'12, and Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Progress Special Prize.

Teaching

  • Distributed System (2025 - )

    Undergraduate

  • Virtualization Technology and Cloud Computing (2020 - )

    Undergraduate/Graduate

  • Operating System Principles (2021 - )

    Undergraduate

Interests
  • Cloud computing systems
  • AI Infra
Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2012

    Kyushu university

  • B&M.Eng in Software engineering, 2009

    Dalian Unversity of Technology

Recent News & Awards

Recent News

  • Nov 2025 - Our paper “Galaxy: An Elastic FaaS Control Plane for Highly-Scalable Instance Scheduling” is accepted by TC 2026. Congratulations Yiming!
  • Nov 2025 - Our paper “?Share: Non-Intrusive Kernel Co-Locating on NVIDIA GPUs” is accepted by HPCA 2026. Congratulations Wenhao!
  • Oct 2025 - Our paper “iRoute: Local Routing Table-based Workflow Management in Serverless Computing” is accepted by EuroSys 2026. Congratulations Yiming!
  • Dec 2024 - Our paper “AlloyStack: A Library Operating System for Serverless Workflow Applications” is accepted by EuroSys 2025. Congratulations Jianing!
  • Mar 2024 - Our paper “FUYAO: DPU-enabled Direct Data Transfer for Serverless Computing” is accepted by ASPLOS 2024. Congratulations Guowei!
  • Jul 2023 - Our paper “Rethinking Deployment for Serverless Functions: A Performance-First Perspective” is accepted by SC 2023. Congratulations Yiming!
  • May 2023 - Our paper “Flame: A Centralized Cache Controller for Serverless Computing” is accepted by ASPLOS 2024. Congratulations Yanan!
  • May 2022 - Our paper “Tetris: Memory-efficient Serverless Inference through Tensor Sharing” is accepted by ATC 2022. Congratulations Jie!
  • Nov 2021 - Our paper “INFless: a native serverless system for low-latency, high-throughput inference” is accepted by ASPLOS 2022. Congratulations Yanan!
  • Jun 2021 - Our paper “Understanding, predicting and scheduling serverless workloads under partial interference” is accepted by SC 2021 and selected as a Best Paper Finalist. Congratulations Yanan!

Awards

  • Oct 2025 - Master student Yichi Chen led the lab’s research assistant to win the Special Prize in the Main Arena of the 19th “Challenge Cup” 2025 China Youth Science and Technology Innovation “Challenge Program” Competition in the AI Field. Congratulations!
  • Sep 2025 - The AlloyStack Operating System Research Group won the First Prize in the 2nd Open Source Operating System Competition. Congratulations!
  • Nov 2024 - Undergraduate student Luhang Wen led the lab’s research assistant to win the Special Prize in the 19th “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition 2024 “Challenge Program” Arena. Congratulations!
  • Aug 2024 - Undergraduate student Fupeng Li won the National Second Prize in the OS Kernel Implementation Track of the National College Students’ Computer System Capability Competition - Operating System Design Competition (National). Congratulations!

Others

  • Nov 2025 - Tianjin University OpenHarmony Club is officially established!
  • Oct 2024 - We will host the 27th China Computer System (ChinaSys) Workshop in November this year. Welcome to join us!