Yiming (Richard) Qiu 邱一鸣 Postdoctoral Researcher EECS University of Michigan / UC Berkeley 4945 Bob and Betty Beyster Building Ann Arbor MI, 48109 E-mail: yimingq at umich dot edu

Bio

Hi there! I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher cohosted by Prof. Ang Chen at University of Michigan CSE and Prof. Sylvia Ratnasamy at UC Berkeley EECS. I earned my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Michigan, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Ang Chen. I began my PhD journey at Rice University, where I spent the first three years of my academic career. In a previous life, I got my BS degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT).

I am broadly interested in systems, networking and security, with a particular focus on applying program analysis, formal reasoning, and machine learning techniques to assist the development of cloud automation and datacenter networks. My PhD thesis is on "Assisting Cloud System Development with Automated Insight Generation".

My research journey so far has been full of surprises. It is nothing less than a life changing experience for me. Please feel free to contact me if you are intersted in my research or my story, I would love to chat more with you.

I will be joining the Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong (HKU) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2025 (still in the onboarding process). I'm looking for potential collaborators (e.g., students passionate in system research). If you are interested in doing a PhD with someone who has zero experience as a PhD advisor, please feel free to reach out to me via email and maybe we can figure something out together :)

Publications

• Curie: Toward Rigorous and Automated Scientific Experimentation with AI Agents
  Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Jiachen Liu, Qiuyi Ding, Yiming Qiu, Zhenning Yang, Yibo Huang, Jayanth Srinivasa, Myungjin Lee, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Ang Chen
  [arxiv.org 2025] [pdf]
  


• Automated Bug Discovery in Cloud Infrastructure-as-Code Updates with LLM Agents
  Yiming Xiang, Zhenning Yang, Jingjia Peng, Hermann Bauer, Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Yiming Qiu, Ang Chen
  [AIOps 2025] [to appear]
  


• Automated Lifting for Cloud Infrastructure-as-Code Programs
  Jingjia Peng, Yiming Qiu, Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Pinhan Zhao, Yibo Huang, Zheng Guo, Xinyu Wang, Ang Chen
  [AIOps 2025] [to appear]
  


• Efficient Multi-WAN Transport for 5G with OTTER
  Mary Hogan, Gerry Wan, Yiming Qiu, Sharad Agarwal, Ryan Beckett, Rachee Singh, Paramvir Bahl
  [NSDI 2025] [to appear]
  


• IaC-Eval: A Code Generation Benchmark for Infrastructure-as-Code Programs
  Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Jiachen Liu, Yiming Qiu, Weijun Fan, Ting He, Lei Lin, Haoran Zhang, Owen M. Park, George Sajan Elengikal, Yuxin Kang, Ang Chen, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Myungjin Lee, Xinyu Wang
  [NeurIPS 2024] [pdf]
  


• Unearthing Semantic Checks for Cloud Infrastructure-as-Code Programs
  Yiming Qiu, Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Ryan Beckett, Ang Chen
  [SOSP 2024] [pdf]
  


• Simplifying Cloud Management with Cloudless Computing
  Yiming Qiu, Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Jiarong Xing, Yibo Huang, Hongyi Liu, Xinyu Wang, Peng Huang, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Ang Chen
  [HotNets 2023] [pdf]
  


• Unleashing SmartNIC Packet Processing Performance in P4
  Jiarong Xing, Yiming Qiu, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Songyuan Sui, Khalid Manaa, Omer Shabtai, Yonatan Piasetzky, Matty Kadosh, Arvind Krishnamurthy, T. S. Eugene Ng, Ang Chen
  [SIGCOMM 2023] [pdf]
  


• Synthesizing Runtime Programmable Switch Updates
  Yiming Qiu, Ryan Beckett, Ang Chen
  [NSDI 2023] [pdf]
  


• Bedrock: Programmable Network Support for Secure RDMA Systems
  Jiarong Xing, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Yiming Qiu, Ziyang Yang, Hongyi Liu, Ang Chen
  [USENIX Security 2022] [pdf]
  


• A Vision for Runtime Programmable Networks
  Jiarong Xing, Yiming Qiu, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Hongyi Liu, Matty Kadosh, Alan Lo, Aditya Akella, Thomas Anderson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, T. S. Eugene Ng, Ang Chen
  [HotNets 2021] [pdf]
  


• Automated SmartNIC Offloading Insights for Network Functions
  Yiming Qiu, Jiarong Xing, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Qiao Kang, Ming Liu, Srinivas Narayana, Ang Chen
  [SOSP 2021] [pdf]
  


• Toward Reconfigurable Kernel Datapaths with Learned Optimizations
  Yiming Qiu, Hongyi Liu, Thomas E.Anderson, Yingyan Lin, Ang Chen
  [HotOS 2021] [pdf]
  


• Probabilistic Profiling of Stateful Data Planes for Adversarial Testing
  Qiao Kang, Jiarong Xing, Yiming Qiu,, Ang Chen
  [ASPLOS 2021] [pdf]
  


• Clara: Performance Clarity for SmartNIC Offloading
  Yiming Qiu, Qiao Kang, Ming Liu, Ang Chen
  [HotNets 2020] [pdf]
  


• A Feasibility Study on Time-aware Monitoring with Commodity Switches
  Yiming Qiu, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Jiarong Xing, Ang Chen
  [SIGCOMM Workshop on SPIN 2020] [pdf]
  

Service

Journal reviewer: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Computer Networks, IEEE JSAC
Conference reviewer: ACM WWW'2024, ACM WWW'2025, P4 Workshop'2024,
Entrepreneur lead: NSF Innovation Corps (National I-Corps)
Teaching assistant: Secure and Cloud Computing (Rice COMP 436/536, Fall 2020)
Teaching assistant: Secure and Cloud Computing (Rice COMP 436/536, Fall 2021)